![]() After Pew leaves, Bones opens the paper to discover the Black Spot, a pirates' summons, with the warning that he has until ten o'clock, and he drops dead of apoplexy (in this context, a stroke) on the spot. Some time later, another of Bones's crewmates, Pew, appears at the inn and forces Jim to lead him to Bones. While Jim cares for him, Bones confesses that he was once the mate of the late notorious pirate, Captain Flint, and that his old crewmates wants Bones's sea chest. Their meeting turns violent, Black Dog flees, and Bones suffers a stroke. Some months later, Bones is visited by a mysterious sailor named Black Dog. Jim quickly realizes that Bones is in hiding, and that he particularly dreads meeting an unidentified seafaring man with one leg. An old drunken seaman named Billy Bones becomes a long-term lodger at the inn, only paying for about the first week of his stay. ![]() The narrator, Jim Hawkins, is the young son of the owners of the Admiral Benbow Inn. ![]() ![]() The novel opens in a seaside bad village in south-west England in the mid-18th century. Plot summary The novel is divided into 6 parts and 34 chapters: Jim Hawkins is the narrator of all these except for chapters 16-18 which are narrated by Doctor Livesey.
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