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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Treasure Island

TREASURE ISLAND

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

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 today:

—So be it, and fall on! If not,

If studious youth no longer crave,

His ancient appetites forgot,

Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,

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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!

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PART ONE

The Old Buccaneer

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The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of

these gentlemen having asked me to write down the

whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the

beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the

bearings of the island, and that only because there is still

treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of

grace 17 and go back to the time when my father kept the

Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the

sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came

plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind

him in a hand-barrow—a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown

man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his

soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black,

broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty,

livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and

whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in

that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:

‘Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest—

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!’

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in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have

been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he

rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that

he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly

for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him, he

drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste

and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our

signboard.

‘This is a handy cove,’ says he at length; ‘and a

pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?’

My father told him no, very little company, the more

was the pity.

‘Well, then,’ said he, ‘this is the berth for me. Here

you, matey,’ he cried to the man who trundled the barrow;

‘bring up alongside and help up my chest. I’ll stay here a

bit,’ he continued. ‘I’m a plain man; rum and bacon and

eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch

ships off. What you mought call me? You mought call me

captain. Oh, I see what you’re at— there"; and he threw

down three or four gold pieces on the threshold. ‘You can

tell me when I’ve worked through that,’ says he, looking

as fierce as a commander.

And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he

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

accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. The man who came

with the barrow told us the mail had set him down the

morning before at the Royal George, that he had inquired

what inns there were along the coast, and hearing ours

well spoken of, I suppose, and described as lonely, had

chosen it from the others for his place of residence. And

that was all we could learn of our guest.

He was a very silent man by custom. All day he hung

round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope;

all evening he sat in a corner of the parlour next the fire

and drank rum and water very strong. Mostly he would

not speak when spoken to, only look up sudden and fierce

and blow through his nose like a fog-horn; and we and the

people who came about our house soon learned to let him

be. Every day when he came back from his stroll he

would ask if any seafaring men had gone by along the

road. At first we thought it was the want of company of

his own kind that made him ask this question, but at last

we began to see he was desirous to avoid them. When a

seaman did put up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and

then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol) he

would look in at him through the curtained door before he

entered the parlour; and he was always sure to be as silent

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as a mouse when any such was present. For me, at least,

there was no secret about the matter, for I was, in a way, a

sharer in his alarms. He had taken me aside one day and

promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every

month if I would only keep my ‘weather-eye open for a

seafaring man with one leg’ and let him know the moment

he appeared. Often enough when the first of the month

came round and I applied to him for my wage, he would

only blow through his nose at me and stare me down, but

before the week was out he was sure to think better of it,

bring me my four-penny piece, and repeat his orders to

look out for ‘the seafaring man with one leg.’

How that personage haunted my dreams, I need

scarcely tell you. On stormy nights, when the wind shook

the four corners of the house and the surf roared along the

cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in a thousand

forms, and with a thousand diabolical expressions. Now

the leg would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip; now

he was a monstrous kind of a creature who had never had

but the one leg, and that in the middle of his body. To see

him leap and run and pursue me over hedge and ditch was

the worst of nightmares. And altogether I paid pretty dear

for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these

abominable fancies.

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But though I was so terrified by the idea of the

seafaring man with one leg, I was far less afraid of the

captain himself than anybody else who knew him. There

were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than

his head would carry; and then he would sometimes sit

and sing his wicked, old, wild sea-songs, minding

nobody; but sometimes he would call for glasses round

and force all the trembling company to listen to his stories

or bear a chorus to his singing. Often I have heard the

house shaking with ‘Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum,’ all

the neighbours joining in for dear life, with the fear of

death upon them, and each singing louder than the other

to avoid remark. For in these fits he was the most

overriding companion ever known; he would slap his

hand on the table for silence all round; he would fly up in

a passion of anger at a question, or sometimes because

none was put, and so he judged the company was not

following his story. Nor would he allow anyone to leave

the inn till he had drunk himself sleepy and reeled off to

bed.

His stories were what frightened people worst of all.

Dreadful stories they were—about hanging, and walking

the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas, and

wild deeds and places on the Spanish Main. By his own

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account he must have lived his life among some of the

wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and

the language in which he told these stories shocked our

plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he

described. My father was always saying the inn would be

ruined, for people would soon cease coming there to be

tyrannized over and put down, and sent shivering to their

beds; but I really believe his presence did us good. People

were frightened at the time, but on looking back they

rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet country

life, and there was even a party of the younger men who

pretended to admire him, calling him a ‘true sea-dog’ and

a ‘real old salt’ and such like names, and saying there was

the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.

In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us, for he kept

on staying week after week, and at last month after

month, so that all the money had been long exhausted,

and still my father never plucked up the heart to insist on

having more. If ever he mentioned it, the captain blew

through his nose so loudly that you might say he roared,

and stared my poor father out of the room. I have seen

him wringing his hands after such a rebuff, and I am sure

the annoyance and the terror he lived in must have greatly

hastened his early and unhappy death.

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