Billie Bones

How Stevenson describes him:

"A tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white".

His role in Treasure Island:

A drunken, violent and yet terrified man who brings the map to Jim's Inn. He is given the Black Spot by Blind Pew and dies of a heart attack from terror.

Billy Bones said,

"Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum...(hic)".

"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".

"He was plainly blind for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood, which made him appear positively deformed ".

His role in Treasure Island:

An evil and sinister pirate who was blinded in a pirate attack. He is cruel, scary and determined to get the map. He gives Billy Bones the Black Spot and is trampled to death by horses.

Blind Pew said,

"All I needed was the map, then I would have been home and dry - Billy Bones got what he deserved!"

"He was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed. Blackbeard was a child to Flint."

His role in Treasure Island:

Captain Flint was the most evil, cruel and heartless pirate to sail the seven seas and it is his treasure that everyone is after. A really nasty piece of work but now long dead (thankfully).

Captain Flint said,

"I wish I'd put my treasure in the bank now! If I could just get my hands on them..."