Benn Gunn

How Stevenson describes him:

"His skin, wherever it was exposed, was burnt by the sun; even his lips were black; and his fair eyes looked quite startling in so dark a face. Of all the beggar-men that I had seen or fancied, he was the chief for raggedness. He was clothed with tatters of old ships' canvas and old sea cloth; and this extraordinary patchwork was all held together by a system of of the most various and incongruous fastenings, brass buttons, bits of stick, and loops of tarry gaskin. All around his waist he wore an old brass- buckled leather belt which was the one thing solid in his whole accoutrement ".

His role in Treasure Island:

Ben Gunn has been marooned on the island for three years and us a reformed pirate. He helps Jim and the others to overcome the pirates and take the treasure home. Once home he manages to spend all his money in three days and becomes a porter for the rest of his life.

Benn Gunn said,

"It was a bit lonely on the island, so I was pleased to see Jim and the others, but not those no good pirates. I don't miss the island, except for my pet lizard Annabelle".