THERE was no return of the mutineers - not so much as another shot out of the woods. They had `got their rations for that day,' as the captain put...
THE coracle - as I had ample reason to know before I was done with her - was a very safe boat for a person of my height and weight, both buoyant and c...
IT was broad day when I awoke, and found myself tossing at the south-west end of Treasure Island. The sun was up, but was still hid from me behind the...
I HAD scarce gained a position on the bowsprit, when the flying jib flapped and filled upon the other tack, with a report like a gun. The schooner tre...
THE wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west. We could run so much the easier from the north-east corner of the island to the mouth of t...
OWING to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross- trees I had nothing below me but the surface o...
THE red glare of the torch, lighting up the interior of the block-house, showed me the worst of my apprehensions realised. The pirates were in possess...
THE council of the buccaneers had lasted some time, when one of them re-entered the house, and with a repetition of the same salute, which had in my e...
I WAS wakened - Indeed, we were all wakened, for I could see even the sentinel shake himself together from where he had fallen against the door-post -...
`JIM,' said Silver, when we were alone, `if I saved your life, you saved mine; and I'll not forget it. I seen the doctor waving you to run for...