Chapter Summary 19: Narrative Resumed by the Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade

In this chapter, Jim goes to the stockade and he helps make a plan to beat the mutineers.

When Jim saw the British flag, he thought it was the mutineers, but then Ben Gunn told him it was definitely his friends because Long John Silver would fly the Jolly Roger. When Jim Hawkins tries to go in the stockade, Ben Gunn says he won’t go in the stockade until Jim’s friends give their word. Suddenly a cannon ball comes crashing down near them and the cannon balls keep on raining down for an hour. They have to constantly move from hiding place to hiding place. He sees their ship, but with the Jolly Roger flying at the peak. He then sees men demolishing the boat on the beach. Jim then runs towards the stockade, but sees the white rock that Ben had talked about.  He had his ship under it. He then continues until he gets to the stockade. When Jim gets back in the stockade with his friends, he tells them his story and looks around the stockade. The captain makes all of the men at the stockade take turns keeping watch. Two of the men gather firewood. Two other men dig graves for their fallen comrades. The doctor cooks. Jim is made the sentry. The captain helps them in any way he can. Before they have supper, they bury the dead man. They decide that their best hope is to kill the mutineers until they either surrender or run away. The next morning Jim hears someone say that the mutineers are bringing a flag of truce with Long John Silver himself.