# Treasure Island (1911)

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First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title "Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola".
Note: The scans on which these pages are based are missing the captions for some illustrations, probably due the fragility of the translucent pages on which the captions were printed. The text of the missing captions can be found in the Illustrations section at the bottom of this page.
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Copyright, 1911, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
Published September, 1911
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TO
LLOYD OSBOURNE,
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
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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 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!
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CONTENTS
Part I
THE OLD BUCCANEER
| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | The Old Sea Dog at the "Admiral Benbow" | 3 |
| II. | Black Dog Appears and Disappears | 11 |
| III. | The Black Spot | 19 |
| IV. | The Sea-Chest | 27 |
| V. | The Last of the Blind Man | 35 |
| VI. | The Captain's Papers | 42 |
Part II
THE SEA COOK
| VII. | I go to Bristol | 53 |
| VIII. | At the Sign of the Spy-glass | 59 |
| IX. | Powder and Arms | 66 |
| X. | The Voyage | 73 |
| XI. | What I Heard in the Apple Barrel | 80 |
| XII. | Council of War | 88 |
Part III
MY SHORE ADVENTURE
| XIII. | How my Shore Adventure Began | 97 |
| XIV. | The First Blow | 104 |
| XV. | The Man of the Island | 111 |
Part IV
THE STOCKADE
| XVI. | Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned | 23 |
| XVII. | Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat's Last Trip | 130 |
| XVIII. | Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day's Fighting | 136 |
| XIX. | Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: the Garrison in the Stockade | 142 |
| XX. | Silver's Embassy | 150 |
| XXI. | The Attack | 157 |
Part V
MY SEA ADVENTURE
| XXII. | How my Sea Adventure Began | 167 |
| XXIII. | The Ebb-Tide Runs | 175 |
| XXIV. | The Cruise of the Coracle | 181 |
| XXV. | I Strike the Jolly Roger | 188 |
| XXVI. | Israel Hands | 195 |
| XXVII. | "Pieces of Eight" | 205 |
Part VI
CAPTAIN SILVER
| XXVIII. | In the Enemy's Camp | 215 |
| XXIX. | The Black Spot Again | 225 |
| XXX. | On Parole | 233 |
| XXXI. | The Treasure Hunt—Flint's Pointer | 242 |
| XXXII. | The Treasure Hunt—The Voice Among The Trees | 251 |
| XXXIII. | The Fall of a Chieftain | 259 |
| XXXIV. | And Last | 267 |
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ILLUSTRATIONS
| | | FACING PAGE |
| Captain Bill Bones | Captain Bill Bones | 4 |
| | All day he hung round the cove, or upon the cliffs, with a brass telescope | |
| Captain Bones Routs Black Dog | Captain Bones Routs Black Dog | 16 |
| | One last tremendous cut which would certainly have split him to the chin had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow | |
| Old Pew | Old Pew | 38 |
| | Tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades | |
| Jim Hawkins Leaves Home | Jim Hawkins Leaves Home | 58 |
| | I said good-bye to mother and the cove | |
| Long John Silver and Hawkins | Long John Silver and Hawkins | 76 |
| | To me he was unweariedly kind; and always glad to see me in the galley | |
| Preparing for the Mutiny | Preparing for the Mutiny | 102 |
| | Loaded pistols were served out to all the sure men | |
| Ben Gunn | Ben Gunn | 112 |
| | I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind the trunk of a pine ​ |
| Captain Smollet Defies the Mutineers | Captain Smollet Defies the Mutineers | 138 |
| | Then, climbing on the roof, he had with his own hand bent and run up the colors | |
| The Attack on the Block House | The Attack on the Block House | 162 |
| | The boarders swarmed over the fence like monkeys | |
| The Fight in the Cabin | The Fight in the Cabin | 178 |
| | It showed me Hands and his companion locked together in deadly wrestle | |
| Israel Hands | Israel Hands | 204 |
| | "One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out" | |
| The Black Spot | The Black Spot | 226 |
| | About half way down the slope to the stockade, they were collected in a group | |
| The Hostage | The Hostage | 244 |
| | For all the world, I was led like a dancing bear | |
| The Treasure Cave! | The Treasure Cave! | 268 |
| | I was kept busy all day in the cave, packing the minted money into bread-bags | |
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