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My name is Jim Hawkins, and Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey asked me to write down the whole story of Treasure Island from beginning to end.
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They told me to tell everything and keep nothing back except the location of the island, since a lot of the treasure is still there.
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So, here I am in the year 1750, remembering a time when my father ran the Admiral Benbow Inn and an old seaman first came to our door.
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He was a tall, strong, nut-brown man, pulling a sea chest behind him.
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A dark pigtail fell over the soiled shoulder of his blue coat.
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His ragged hands had black, broken nails, and the scar across his cheek was a dirty, ugly white.
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He came in, sat down, and ordered a glass of rum.
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"A comfortable inn," he said, drinking slowly, "and in a good location. Many customers, mate?"
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"No, very few," my father said. "It's a pity."
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"Well, then," he said, "this is the place for me.
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All I'll need each day is bacon and eggs in the morning, some rum, and a room with a high window to watch for ships."
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He threw down three gold pieces.
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"You can call me 'Captain,'" he said, looking fierce.
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"Let me know when you need more money to cover my board."
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The captain was a very quiet man.
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All day he would hang around the cove or the cliffs with a brass telescope, and all evening, he would sit next to the fire and drink rum.
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"Let him be," my father warned me.
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Every day the old man went for a walk, and when he returned to the inn, he'd always look over his shoulder and ask, "Have any seafaring men been here?"
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Occasionally, seamen did arrive at the Admiral Benbow, and he'd spy on them through the curtains.
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He took me aside one day and held out a silver coin.
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"I'll pay you every month," he said, "if you keep your eyes open for a seafaring man with one leg."
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"One leg?" I said.
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"Let me know the moment he appears."
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On the first of each month, I'd ask him for my wage.
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He'd stare at me for a long time, but eventually he would give me my coin.
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"Look out for the seafaring man with one leg," he repeated ominously.
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How that one-legged man haunted my dreams!
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On stormy nights, he appeared to me in a thousand different forms, with a thousand evil expressions.
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Sometimes his leg was cut off at the knee, and sometimes the entire leg would be missing.
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The one-legged man would chase me over hedges and into ditches.
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I thought these nightmares were a high price for my monthly pay, but oddly, the captain himself didn't scare me at all.
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"More rum!" he'd shout.
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He'd force our trembling guests to listen to his stories and his singing, and he wouldn't allow anyone to leave. "Pay attention!"
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"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest," he sang.
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"Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" everyone sang in answer, joining in for fear of death.
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"You'd walk the plank in the Dry Tortugas," he said, pointing to one reluctant guest.
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"And on the bloody Spanish Main," he said, pointing to another, "you'd be tortured and then hung."
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"He's lived among the wickedest men on the sea," one guest whispered.
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"He uses such shocking language," said another.
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My father held his head in his hands. "The inn will be ruined.
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People won't come to be bullied and sent shivering to their beds."
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I disagreed and said to my father, "The captain does us good.
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People are frightened, but they like the excitement.
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There's even a group of young men who pretend to admire him.
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They call him 'sea dog' and 'old salt' and say he's the sort of man that made England fearsome at sea."
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"But the money he paid us is long gone," my father said.
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"I don't know how to insist on more.
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Whenever I try, he just stares at me."
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Father wrung his hands and looked very ill.
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So the captain stayed. He never wrote or received letters, or spoke with anyone but the guests, and then only when drunk.
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And we never saw inside his great sea chest.
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Late one afternoon, Dr. Livesey arrived to see my father, who had become quite sick.
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This well-dressed doctor, with his white powdered wig, clear eyes, and pleasant manners,
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contrasted sharply with the filthy, bleary-eyed old sailor, drunk and sitting with his arms on the table.
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Suddenly the captain began to sing:
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"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
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Drink and the devil had done for the rest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
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Dr. Livesey was giving orders for my father's care when the captain banged his hand on the table for quiet.
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Everyone stopped talking, but Dr. Livesey continued.
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The captain glared, swore, and said, "Silence, there, between decks!"
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"Are you addressing me, sir?" the doctor asked.
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"Aye," the captain said. "Shut the devil up."
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"I have only one thing to say, sir," the doctor replied.
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"Keep drinking rum and you'll soon be dead, you scoundrel!"
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The old fellow sprang up, opened a pocketknife, and threatened to pin the doctor to the wall.
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The doctor spoke louder. "Put that knife away, or I promise, on my honor, you shall hang."
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There was a battle of looks, but the captain soon closed his weapon, grumbling like a beaten dog.
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"And now, sir," the doctor continued, "I'll be watching you.
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I'm not only a doctor, but also an officer of the law.
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If I hear any complaints about you, I'll have you hunted down. So behave."
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Soon after, Dr. Livesey rode away, but the captain held his peace that evening and many evenings to come.