THERE was a great rush of feet across the deck. I could hear people tumbling up from the cabin and the foc's'le; and, slipping in an instant o...
THE appearance of the island when I came on deck next morning was altogether changed. Although the breeze ha now utterly ceased, we had made a great d...
I WAS so pleased at having given the slip to Long John, that I began to enjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land that I ...
FROM the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony a spout of gravel was dislodged, and fell rattling and bounding through the trees. My eyes t...
IT was about half-past one - three bells in the sea phrase that the two boats went ashore from the Hispaniola. The captain, the squire, and I were tal...
THIS fifth trip was quite different from any of the others. In the first place, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded. ...
WE made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from the stockade; and at every step we took the voices of the buccaneers rang nea...
AS soon as Benn Gunn saw the colours he came to a halt stopped me by the arm, and sat down.`Now,' said he, `there's your friends, sure enough....
SURE enough, there were two men just outside the stockade, one of them waving a white cloth; the other, no less a person than Silver himself, standing...
AS soon as Silver disappeared, the captain, who had been closely watching him, turned towards the interior of the house, and found not a man of us at ...