| PAGE | ||
| To the Hesitating Purchaser | [viii] | |
| List of Color Plates | [ix] | |
| Dedication | [x] | |
| PART I | ||
| The Old Buccaneer | ||
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | At the "Admiral Benbow" | [3] |
| II. | Black Dog Appears and Disappears | [11] |
| III. | The Black Spot | [19] |
| IV. | The Sea-Chest | [26] |
| V. | The Last of the Blind Man | [33] |
| VI. | The Captain's Papers | [40] |
| PART II | ||
| The Sea-Cook | ||
| VII. | I Go to Bristol | [49] |
| VIII. | At the Sign of the "Spy-Glass" | [55] |
| IX. | Powder and Arms | [62] |
| X. | The Voyage | [69] |
| XI. | What I Heard in the Apple Barrel | [76] |
| XII. | Council of War | [83] |
| PART III | ||
| My Shore Adventure | ||
| XIII. | How My Shore Adventure Began | [93] |
| XIV. | The First Blow | [99] |
| XV. | The Man of the Island | [106] |
| PART IV | ||
| The Stockade | ||
| XVI. | Narrative Continued by the Doctor—How the Ship was Abandoned | [117] |
| XVII. | Narrative Continued by the Doctor—The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip | [123] |
| XVIII. | Narrative Continued by the Doctor—End of the First Day's Fighting | [129] |
| XIX. | Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins—The Garrison in the Stockade | [135] |
| XX. | Silver's Embassy | [142] |
| XXI. | The Attack | [149] |
| PART V | ||
| My Sea Adventure | ||
| XXII. | How My Sea Adventure Began | [159] |
| XXIII. | The Ebb-Tide Runs | [166] |
| XXIV. | The Cruise of the Coracle | [172] |
| XXV. | I Strike the Jolly Roger | [179] |
| XXVI. | Israel Hands | [185] |
| XXVII. | "Pieces of Eight" | [195] |
| PART VI | ||
| Captain Silver | ||
| XXVIII. | In the Enemy's Camp | [205] |
| XXIX. | The Black Spot Again | [214] |
| XXX. | On Parole | [222] |
| XXXI. | The Treasure-Hunt—Flint's Pointer | [230] |
| XXXII. | The Treasure-Hunt—The Voice among the Trees | [238] |
| XXXIII. | The Fall of a Chieftain | [245] |
| XXXIV. | And Last | [252] |
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!
COLOR PLATES
| OPPOSITE PAGE | |
| I remember him as if it were yesterday as he cameplodding to the inn door | [50] |
| "Pew!" he cried, "they've been before us" | [51] |
| "Now, Morgan," said Long John, very sternly, "you neverclapped your eyes on that Black Dog before, did you,now?" | [82] |
| It was something to see him get on with his cookinglike someone safe ashore | [83] |
| They had the gun, by this time, slewed around upon theswivel | [178] |
| In a moment the four pirates had swarmed up the moundand were upon us | [179] |
| Quick as thought, I sprang into the mizzen shrouds | [210] |
| Nearly every variety of money in the world must havefound a place in that collection | [211] |