In this chapter, Jim meets the captain.
The book opens with Jim Hawkins telling why he is writing the story about his adventures on Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins story starts with a seaman going into an inn singing, "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" The seaman claims to be a captain. Jim is drawn into this adventure when the captain asks him to keep a "weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg" for a silver fourpenny every month. The captain stays at the inn and tells a horrible tale every night.
The book opens with Jim Hawkins telling why he is writing the story about his adventures on Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins story starts with a seaman going into an inn singing, "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" The seaman claims to be a captain. Jim is drawn into this adventure when the captain asks him to keep a "weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg" for a silver fourpenny every month. The captain stays at the inn and tells a horrible tale every night.
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