Later, Jim makes his way to the squire and doctor, who help him open the oil-cloth bag: there’s a map of an island with a place marked on it that holds treasure. Hearing voices, they rush out of the house and hide by the road: it’s a group of pirates who seem to be looking for what Jim has seized. But they succeed in opening the chest: Jim’s mother counts out some of the gold, while Jim grabs a small oil-cloth packet. Since he hasn’t paid his rent for months, Jim and his mother decide to break into his sea chest chest and seize what they’re owed, even though they’re now afraid of being alone at the inn, given the various people who have pursued the captain. The very day after the funeral, a blind man (Pew) arrives and gives the captain the black spot, which deposes him from power among the other pirates. Afterwards, he tells Jim that Black Dog was after something in his sea chest: if he ever dies, he tells Jim, the boy should find what’s in it and follow the instructions inside. The captain spends much of the time drunk on rum, and after a pirate named Black Dog comes to see him, he is so nervous that he has a fainting fit. One day a strange, ragged-looking, and intimidating man arrives: he asks only to be called captain, and asks Jim to keep a lookout for a man with only one leg. He begins by discussing the “Admiral Benbow” inn that his family owned when he was a boy, not far from the English port of Bristol.

The protagonist of Treasure Island, Jim Hawkins, has been asked by his acquaintances Doctor Livesey and Squire Trelawney to write down his recollections.

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