Treasure Island

Color Illustrations by Milo Winter copyright 1915, 1943 by Rand McNally & Company All rights reserved. This 2002 edition published by Gramercy Books, an imprint of Random House Value Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc., 280 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Gramercy is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Printed and bound in the United States of America Cover design by Judy Fucci, Studio Graphix, Inc. Random House New York Toronto London Sydney Auckland www.randomhouse.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Treasure Island/Robert Louis Stevenson; illustrated in color by Milo Winter. p. cm.—(Illustrated children's library) Originally published: New York: Children's classics, 1986. Summary: While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. ISBN 0-517-22114-4 [1. Buried treasure—Fiction. 2. Pirates—Fiction. 3. Adventure and adventures—Fiction. 4. Caribbean Area—History—18th century—Fiction.] I. Winter, Milo, 1888-1956, ill. II. Title. III. Series. PZ7.S8482 Tr 2002 [Fic]—dc21 2002023301 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Transcriber's Note: Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect and variant spellings have been retained, whilst inconsistent hyphenation has been standardised. Color plates have been repositioned according to their captions; the 'Color Plates' listing remains as printed to indicate the original locations. CONTENTS PAGE To the Hesitating Purchaser viii List of Color Plates ix Dedication x The Old Buccaneer 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 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 My Shore Adventure XIII. How My Shore Adventure Began 93 XIV. The First Blow 99 XV. The Man of the Island 106 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.…