XXII. HOW I BEGAN MY SEA ADVENTURE 145 XXIII. THE EBB-TIDE RUNS 151 XXIV. THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE 156 XXV. I STRIKE THE JOLLY ROGER 162 XXVI. ISRAEL HANDS 167 XXVII. "PIECES OF EIGHT" 176 PART VI.--CAPTAIN SILVER XXVIII. IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP 185 XXIX. THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN 193 XXX. ON PAROLE 200 XXXI. THE TREASURE HUNT--FLINT'S POINTER 207 XXXII. THE TREASURE HUNT--THE VOICE AMONG THE TREES 214 XXXIII. THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN 220 XXXIV. AND LAST 226 WILL O' THE MILL PAGE THE PLAIN AND THE STARS 235 THE PARSON'S MARJORY 244 DEATH 256 THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD CHAPTER I. BY THE DYING MOUNTEBANK 267 II. MORNING TALK 271 III. THE ADOPTION 278 IV. THE EDUCATION OF A PHILOSOPHER 286 V. TREASURE TROVE 296 VI. A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, IN TWO PARTS 309 VII. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF DESPREZ 320 VIII. THE WAGES OF PHILOSOPHY 329 TREASURE ISLAND TO LLOYD OSBOURNE AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHOSE CLASSIC TASTE THE FOLLOWING NARRATIVE HAS BEEN DESIGNED IT IS NOW, IN RETURN FOR NUMEROUS DELIGHTFUL HOURS AND WITH THE KINDEST WISHES, DEDICATED BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND THE AUTHOR _TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER_ _If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day:_