Treasure Island (1883)

by Robert Louis Stevenson

For other versions of this work, see Treasure Island.

Treasure Island.

By the same author.

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An Inland Voyage.

Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes.

Travels with a Donkey.

Virginibus Puerisque.

Familiar Studies of Men and Books.

New Arabian Nights.

Treasure Island.

by

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Cassell & Company, Limited:

London, Paris & New York.

[All Rights Reserved.]

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1883.

To

S. L. O.,

AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN,

IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHOSE CLASSIC TASTE

THE FOLLOWING NARRATIVE HAS BEEN DESIGNED,

IT IS NOW, IN RETURN FOR NUMEROUS DELIGHTFUL HOURS,

AND WITH THE KINDEST WISHES,

Dedicated

BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

To the hesitating purchaser.

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If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
⁠Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
⁠And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance, retold
⁠Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
⁠The wiser youngsters of to-day:

—So be it, and fall on! If not,
⁠If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
⁠Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
⁠So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
⁠Where these and their creations lie!

Contents.

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Part I.—The Old Buccaneer.

Chapter		Page
I.	The Old Sea Dog at the "Admiral Benbow."	1
II.	Black Dog appears and disappears	10
III.	The Black Spot	19
IV.	The Sea Chest	28
V.	The Last of the Blind Man	37
VI.	The Captain’s Papers	45

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Part II.—The Sea Cook.

VII.	I go to Bristol	54
VIII.	At the Sign of the "Spy-glass"	61
IX.	Powder and Arms	69
X.	The Voyage	77
XI.	What I Heard in the Apple Barrel	85
XII.	Council of War	94

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Part III.—My Shore Adventure.

XIII.	How my Shore Adventure began	103
XIV.	The First Blow	110
XV.	The Man of the Island	118

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Part IV.—The Stockade.

XVI.	Narrative continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned	128
XVII.	Narrative continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-Boat’s Last Trip	135
XVIII.	Narrative continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting	142
XIX.	Narrative resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade	149
XX.	Silver’s Embassy	158
XXI.	The Attack	166

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Part V.—My Sea Adventure.

XXII.	How my Sea Adventure began	175
XXIII.	The Ebb-Tide Runs	184
XXIV.	The Cruise of the Coracle	191
XXV.	I Strike the Jolly Roger	199
XXVI.	Israel Hands	206
XXVII.	"Pieces of Eight"	218

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Part VI.—Captain Silver.

XXVIII.	In the Enemy’s Camp	227
XXIX.	The Black Spot Again	238
XXX.	On Parole	247
XXXI.	The Treasure Hunt—Flint's Pointer	257
XXXII.	The Treasure Hunt—The Voice among the Trees	267
XXXIII.	The Fall of a Chieftain	276
XXXIV.	And Last	285