The Black SpotД«illy recovers slowly and starts leaving his bed again. He confines Bill to bed, with strict orders to stay off the rum. The local doctor, Doctor Livesey, happens to come by the inn, and finds that Billy has had a stroke. As the captain turns back into the house, asking for rum, he suddenly collapses.

Despite having suffered a serious cut, Black Dog manages to escape.

Then Black Dog and Bill appear in the room, both with drawn cutlasses. Jim hears tables and chairs being turned over. Suddenly, the two men raise their voices and an argument ensues. They retreat into a private room, and Jim tries to eavesdrop, but he canвЂ™t hear anything. When the captain returns and sees Black Dog, he has вЂњthe look of a man who sees a ghost, or the evil one.вЂќ It turns out that the two know each other well. Jim tells him that a man who calls himself captain is a guest thereВ but that he is currently out. He asks Jim whether his mate Bill is at the inn. He spends his days watching the coast and enlists young Jim Hawkins, the ownerвЂ™s son, to keep a lookout for a one-legged seafarer, for which he pays JimВ a silver fourpenny every month. вЂњSuddenly began to pip up his eternal song: вЂFifteen men on the dead manвЂ™s chest вЂ“ Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!вЂ™вЂќД«ut despite his boisterousness, he is nervous. He terrorizes the other guests with drinking songs and gruesome tales of the sea, in particular when he has drunk too much rum вЂ“ which happens regularly. He decides to stop there indefinitely and soon starts making a nuisance of himself. вЂњAnd I was going to sea myself to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain, and pig-tailed singing seamen to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasures!вЂќДЄn old seaman, Billy Bones, who calls himself вЂњcaptain,вЂќ arrives with his sea chest at the Admiral Benbow, a remote inn along the English coast.In 2014, Treasure Island was turned into a stage play, with girls and women cast as the main characters.The story appeared initially in serialized form under the title The Sea Cook: A Story for BoysВ in the periodical Young Folks but failed to get much attention.By the mid-19th century, with piracy pretty much under control, the pirate had become a literary romantic antihero.Stevenson suffered from tuberculosis most of his life and finally settled in Samoa, where he believed the climate would be good for his health.Treasure Island follows in the footsteps of the American adventure novel Stevenson found inspiration in the works of writers such as Mark Twain and James Fenimore Cooper.Stevenson modeled John Silver on a friendВ вЂ“ stripped of all the friendвЂ™s good characteristics.It was an instant success and established him as a successful author. Treasure Island was Robert Louis StevensonвЂ™s first novel.Little do they know that a number of their crew have joined them to steal the treasure from under their noses and kill them. The young hero, Jim Hawkins, comes into the possession of a treasure map and sets off with his companions to find Captain FlintвЂ™s treasure.Treasure Island is a prime example of a late 19th-century adventure novel.And no wonder вЂ“В its iconic characters, likeВ the brave but often rash teenage hero Jim Hawkins andВ the deeply immoral but often surprisingly likable pirate (and murderer) Long John Silver, the storyвЂ™s characters draw you in and make you care about their fate. Robert LouisВ StevensonвЂ™s Treasure Island is an adventure story par excellence and while it was originally aimed at a young (and mainly male) readership, it has captured the hearts and minds of many an older reader as well. It taps into вЂ“ and to some extent borrows from вЂ“ a rich tradition of American novelists, including works by James Fennimore Cooper, Mark Twain and Washington Irving. Treasure Island offers everything an adventurer could want: a mysterious old sailor seeking refuge in a remote inn, a one-legged pirate with a parrot in search of the sailor, a treasure map that falls into the hands of a young boy and the dangerous journey across the sea to an island in search of the treasure, only to find that the crew has been infiltrated by a group of mutinous cronies and their one-legged leader.

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