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. THE TREASURE-HUNT–THE VOICE AMONG THE TREES NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAWKINS: THE GARRISON IN THE STOCKADE

NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: END OF THE FIRST DAY’S FIGHTING NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: THE JOLLY-BOAT’S LAST TRIP NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED

Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, Or Cooper of the wood and wave:Īnd all my pirates share the grave Where these and their creations lie! –So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave, His ancient appetites forgot, If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons, And buccaneers, and buried gold,Īnd all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way,Ĭan please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of today: 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,

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