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Treasure Island `
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by Robert Louis Stevenson `
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TREASURE ISLAND `
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To `
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S.L.O., `
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an American gentleman `
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in accordance with whose classic taste `
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the following narrative has been designed, `
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it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, `
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and with the kindest wishes, `
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dedicated `
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by his affectionate friend, the author. `
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TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER `
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If sailor tales to sailor tunes, `
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Storm and adventure, heat and cold, `
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If schooners, islands, and maroons, `
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And buccaneers, and buried gold, `
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And all the old romance, retold `
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Exactly in the ancient way, `
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Can please, as me they pleased of old, `
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The wiser youngsters of today: `
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--So be it, and fall on! If not, `
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If studious youth no longer crave, `
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His ancient appetites forgot, `
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Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, `
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Or Cooper of the wood and wave: `
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So be it, also! And may I `
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And all my pirates share the grave `
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Where these and their creations lie! `
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CONTENTS `
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PART ONE `
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The Old Buccaneer `
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1 THE OLD SEA-DOG AT THE ADMIRAL BENBOW `
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2 BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS `
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3 THE BLACK SPOT `
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4 THE SEA-CHEST `
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5 THE LAST OF THE BLIND MAN `
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6 THE CAPTAIN'S PAPERS `
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PART TWO `
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The Sea Cook `
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7 I GO TO BRISTOL `
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8 AT THE SIGN OF THE SPY-GLASS `
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9 POWDER AND ARMS `
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10 THE VOYAGE `
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11 WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE BARREL `
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12 COUNCIL OF WAR `
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PART THREE `
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My Shore Adventure `
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13 HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN `
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14 THE FIRST BLOW `
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15 THE MAN OF THE ISLAND `
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PART FOUR `
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The Stockade `
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16 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: `
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HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED `
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17 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: `
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THE JOLLY-BOAT'S LAST TRIP `
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18 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: `
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END OF THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHTING `
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19 NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAWKINS: `
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THE GARRISON IN THE STOCKADE `
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20 SILVER'S EMBASSY `
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21 THE ATTACK `
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PART FIVE `
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My Sea Adventure `
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22 HOW MY SEA ADVENTURE BEGAN `
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23 THE EBB-TIDE RUNS `
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24 THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE `
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25 I STRIKE THE JOLLY ROGER `
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26 ISRAEL HANDS `
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27 "PIECES OF EIGHT" `
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PART SIX `
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Captain Silver `
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28 IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP `
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29 THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN `
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30 ON PAROLE `
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31 THE TREASURE-HUNT--FLINT'S POINTER `
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32 THE TREASURE-HUNT--THE VOICE AMONG `
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THE TREES `
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33 THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN `
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34 AND LAST `
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TREASURE ISLAND `
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PART ONE `
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The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow `
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SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these `
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gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole `
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particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning `
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to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the `
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island, and that only because there is still treasure not `
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yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ `
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and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral `
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Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut `
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first took up his lodging under our roof. `
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I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came `
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plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following `
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behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, `
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nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the `
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shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and `
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scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut `
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across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him `
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looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he `
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did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that `
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he sang so often afterwards: `
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"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-- `
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Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" `
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in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have `
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been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he `
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rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike `
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that he carried, and when my father appeared, called `
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roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought `
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to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering `
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on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs `
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and up at our signboard. `
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"This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a `
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pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?" `
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My father told him no, very little company, the more `
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was the pity. `
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"Well, then," said he, "this is the berth for me. `
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Here you, matey," he cried to the man who trundled the `
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barrow; "bring up alongside and help up my chest. I'll `
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stay here a bit," he continued. "I'm a plain man; rum `
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and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up `
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there for to watch ships off. What you mought call me? `
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You mought call me captain. Oh, I see what you're at-- `
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there"; and he threw down three or four gold pieces on `
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the threshold. "You can tell me when I've worked `
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through that," says he, looking as fierce as a `
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commander. `
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And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he `
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spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed `
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before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper `
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accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. The man who `
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came with the barrow told us the mail had set him down `
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the morning before at the Royal George, that he had `
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inquired what inns there were along the coast, and `
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hearing ours well spoken of, I suppose, and described as `
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lonely, had chosen it from the others for his place of `
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residence. And that was all we could learn of our guest. `
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He was a very silent man by custom. All day he hung `
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round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass `
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telescope; all evening he sat in a corner of the `
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parlour next the fire and drank rum and water very `
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strong. Mostly he would not speak when spoken to, only `
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look up sudden and fierce and blow through his nose `
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like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came about `
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our house soon learned to let him be. Every day when `
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he came back from his stroll he would ask if any `
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seafaring men had gone by along the road. At first we `
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thought it was the want of company of his own kind that `
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made him ask this question, but at last we began to see `
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he was desirous to avoid them. When a seaman did put `
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up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did, `
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making by the coast road for Bristol) he would look in `
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