“Introducing TREASURE ISLAND ISLAND Piracy—Once It Was Legal een Think about this sentence: Rober Lous Stevenson, capa who commanded tet oan armed ships were hied during yout ask hm wartime by various goverment to attack thee enemies shipping. Wee the sentence in your Because these “privaters" were allowed to keep the cargo ofthe Readers Log, Add questions ships they captured, hers was a profitable business daring wartime and a 135 you ea the noe hrdo-break habit when a var was over, ‘A Rhode Island privateer named Thomas Tew was hired by the English in the ate 16005 to atack Spanish and French ships, Then England and Spain ‘ade peace, and Tew found tat French ships were carrying 0 lit treasure that twas hardly wort the touble to bosrd them, ‘Tew and some backers hatched a plan: Papers from the governor of Bermuda would suthrize Tew to atack “legally” a French trading poston the west coast of Affica. Instead he woud hea for Inia and the riches of ‘he Great Mogul. The plan warked, Tew quickly capaued & Mogul ship with ‘more than £100,000 in gold and siver coin. Prvateering had become Piracy. Word of the potential riches spread oer privateers wee fist to oll, and the golden age of piracy bat begun RocueEs’ GALLERY Msn You WouLpx'r WANT 70 MEET ON THE WATER Blackbeard Str Hey Moran ocanoe ior Hina ws Edvard Tech ut Moran insist He man per boi a Seward Datead bea bpm araftcsller wlan reed Mp py an sa Oftison acter which be Engh een ote West imo Egan fra neal of bee ino pasando wih Indies n 655 By 1636 be hd__psing him, King Cae sons. He cards pls, bzome sprites with he es~Enied Mon ad set fin tndinbetie sock long ighed nga Tamsin enema bck amc pn! Captain Wiliam Kidd matches unde his hat to create @ } eee eee | Sihiatetmes fatewereess tie i ee ae : Eriiveage” ecagomtesee i caetae etine I ee eee :| eae eee SEES GAIUS seaman | the English hanged him. five wounds on his body. ‘onetime leading two thousand i i 0 | reasue islandCopyright © by Hot, Rinehart and Winston. Al rights reserved. _ TREASURE ISLAND Chapters 1-6 4 Sailors Warned: Beware the Dry Tortugas Dry Toragat ar eiht sand andres hat extend into the Gulf of Mexico about 110 kilometers west ofthe Florida Keys, Ther EASTER combination of shallow waters and pirate Iai have meant disaster SUPDOe that you ve near 2 for hundreds of ships that strayed offcourse or were swept tothe Torigns prt ly uri the 1700, by storms. Since 1650, more than 20 ships have sunk in these water hat kind of people would yeu expect to meet there? As you read these fist chapters, ot down some notes about the characters whom Stevenson trodes Stumpy Sea CHESTS ATAILABLE: Picea vo Fre a Susan's Buvee? ome Bar Jessica Locke ually eds ‘Oursea chests are large, sturdy, and eaty to carry fom ship to shore to ship. On board they double as cai, closet, chest of = drawers, anda stand for holding your day's supply of wate. = i SroruioHr om Treasure Isanp —~, Lots OF Lo 9 In Treasure Islan the items in Billy Bones sea chest were chosen bythe writers fates, who was fscinatd by the story his son was creating Stevenson wrote, ‘When he time came for Billy Bones chest tobe ransacked he must have spent the better part ofa day preparing, on the back of legal ceavelope, an inventory ofits contents, which exact followed A ec of eit A Spanish FE MSE esothatcerepondedtothe Louis dors Any of the gold Pis ‘United Sates dlr. vas wort cons mined ding te gs of| Pho ‘eight reals (Spanish coins) and —_the French kings from Louis XII “the coins were of all coune ad an 8 stamped ont through Louis XVI—from 1610 ‘ties and sizes—doubloons — Doubloon: This Spanish coin 101792. and lous ors, and guineas, yas used unl he 1800s. It was Guinea: An English coin used and pleces of eight..." worth about sixteen silver dollars oe | su cue | a8