Treasure Island

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Stevenson Robert Louis. Treasure Island

TREASURE ISLAND

1 – The old seaman

2 – Black Dog

3 – The black spot

4 – The sea-chest

5 – I go to Bristol

6 – The ship and its men

7 – The apple barrel

8 – Treasure Island

9 – The man of the island

10 – Inside the stockade

11 – Sea adventure

12 – Israel Hands

13 – A prisoner of the enemy

14 – Looking for the treasure

15 – End of an adventure

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Treasure Island. ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES. Before Reading

ACTIVITIES. While Reading

ACTIVITIES. After Reading

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Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the others have asked me to write down all I know about Treasure Island. My name is Jim Hawkins, and I was in the story right from the start, back in 17 – . I was only a boy then, and it all began at the time my father owned the Admiral Benbow inn, at Black Hill Cove. I remember so clearly the day when the old seaman came to stay – I can almost see him in front of me as I write.

He arrived with his sea-chest, a tall, strong man with a cut across one cheek. He sang that old sea song as he walked up to the inn door:

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‘Then it’s the place for me,’ said the seaman. ‘I’ll stay here for a bit. You can call me Captain.’ He threw down three or four gold coins. ‘Tell me when I’ve spent all that.’

He was a silent man. All day he walked around the cove, or up on the cliffs; all evening he sat in a corner of the room, and drank rum and water. He only spoke to our other customers when he was drunk. Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea. Our customers were mostly quiet, farming people; the captain frightened them and they soon learned to leave him alone.

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