Cadmus Graded Readers

The group safely loads the treasure onto the ship and sails away, leaving the remaining mutineers on the island, while Long John Silver makes a sly escape with a small bag of gold coins.

Silver and the pirates use the map to find the treasure site, only to discover the gold has already been dug up, leading to a sudden ambush by Jim's friends.

Returning to the log house in the dark, Jim accidentally walks into the pirates' camp and is captured by Long John Silver, who decides to protect the boy from his mutinous crew.

Jim boards the drifting ship and strikes a deal with a wounded pirate named Israel Hands, but Jim is forced to shoot him after Hands attacks him with a knife.

Jim sneaks away from the stockade, finds Ben Gunn's hidden homemade boat, and rows out in the dark to cut the Hispaniola's anchor rope to prevent the pirates from escaping.

Silver attempts to negotiate under a flag of truce, but after Captain Smollett refuses his offer, the pirates launch a fierce and deadly assault on the stockade.

Dr. Livesey and the honest men abandon the ship for an old wooden log house on the island, raising the British flag as they prepare to defend themselves from the mutineers.

Fleeing from Silver through the trees, Jim encounters Ben Gunn, a marooned former pirate who offers his help and a hidden boat in exchange for cheese and a passage home.

The crew goes ashore on the island, and Jim secretly sneaks along, later witnessing Long John Silver brutally murder an honest sailor named Tom.

Hiding inside an apple barrel, Jim overhears Long John Silver plotting a violent mutiny with the crew once the treasure is safely loaded on the ship.