Why does jim leave the stockade

He says he is dying. Jim advises him to say some prayers, but Hands reckons this is nonsense. The tide is right, then, and they take the ship to the northern anchorage to beach it, seeing as they do so the wreck of another, abandoned, ship.

Struggling to maneuver the Hispaniola into place at Hands' direction, Jim is distracted until, suddenly, he sees the coxswain moving toward him, knife in hand. Hands lunges and Jim lets go of the tiller to jump aside. The tiller, released, hits Hands in the chest. Jim pulls out one of his pistols and aims, but the weapon has been fouled with water and will not fire. Dodging and weaving, the two feint at each other. Then the ship runs aground and tips to the side, the deck at a sharp angle and the masts leaning out over the water.

Both Jim and Hands fall over, but Jim gets to his feet and climbs the ropes to the mizzenmast, narrowly avoiding the knife.

Now, seated on the mast's crosstrees, he primes and reloads both pistols, while Hands struggles slowly toward him, dragging his injured leg. Hands, however, seems to reflect that he is in a bad position, and he offers to surrender — but, even as he is speaking, he throws the knife suddenly, pinning Jim by the flesh of his shoulder to the mast. Hurt and surprised, Jim fires both pistols and drops them, and Hands falls dying into the water.

Seeing Hands' body lying under the shallow water of the bay Chapter 27, "Pieces of Eight" , Jim tears free from the knife, returns to deck to tend his wound, which is not deep, and manages to heave O'Brien's body overboard to lie beside that of Hands.

Then, as the sun sets, the tide turns, and a wind begins to rise, Jim does what he can to bring down the sails so that the ship will not be damaged by being blown about.

When this is done, he drops down from the cut hawser into waist-deep water and wades ashore. Feeling proud of having recaptured the ship, he starts in the direction of the stockade, crosses a stream, and, seeing a fire in the distance, supposes it is Ben Gunn's camp.

The moon comes up and he approaches the stockade, where he sees the embers of another fire dying in the yard. This puzzles him, and he climbs over the palisade and crawls toward the blockhouse cautiously. Then he hears from inside the snores of sleeping men and, reassured, enters the building, thinking to lie down in his own place and surprise his friends when they awaken.

But he manages to step on one sleeper, and in the ensuing confusion he hears Silver's parrot screaming "Pieces of eight! He turns to run but is held fast, captured by the pirates. Jim's decision after the attack to leave the stockade — for no apparent reason — is another instance of impulsive behavior, foreshadowed by his earlier having joined the shore party.

It is necessary to the plot, in order for him to decide later to take Ben Gunn's boat and cut the ship loose, but, in fact, the whole episode would seem to have been contrived to allow Jim, as protagonist, really to act rather than simply to observe or follow orders.

When he does so, Jim's reckless behavior callously leaves only three men at the stockade and only Trelawney and Gray able to defend against another attack, should one come.

Silver has taken one of that morning's attackers back to the ship, leaving only a few mutineers on shore for the time being, but Jim does not discover this until after his desertion of his friends.

Thus this instance of his impulsiveness is much more serious — and much more dangerous — than the previous one, and he will be reproved for it later; indeed, he will reprove himself. This part contains a small editorial oversight: Jim sees Silver at the ship, talking with Israel Hands and the man whose name he'll later learn is O'Brien. Then he says that Silver has returned to shore in the jolly-boat.

Actually, Silver is in one of the two gigs that the mutineers took to go ashore the previous day; the pirates later destroyed the smaller jolly-boat to make sure that Captain Smollett and his group couldn't use it again.

There is a scuffle among the mutineers and then Gray, cut in the face, comes out and joins them. They shove off from the ship and strike out for shore.

The tide is ebbing and they are nearly swamped, but they are making their way slowly when they realize that Hands and the other four left on the Hispaniola are now in possession of the ship's "long-nine" — a long-range mounted gun — and its powder and shot.

From their boat they can see Hands getting ready to load the gun, and Squire Trelawney, the best shot, aims his musket and fires. He misses Hands but hits one of the others. Then Silver's party comes down to the beach. Some start out toward the squire's group in one of their two boats, while others run along by the shore to head them off.

They know it will be a race, but they are close to shore and they try for it, the ebbing tide now working for them and against the pirates' boat. By now, however, Hands has readied the gun on deck and he fires. The shot whistles over their heads, but at their effort to back the boat out of Hands' aim, it sinks, along with their supplies and three of their five muskets.

The five men wade to shore Chapter 18, "Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day's Fighting" and run for the stockade, hearing the pirates who remained on shore coming toward them. Both groups reach the enclosure at the same time. Trelawney and Livesey, along with Hunter and Joyce from the blockhouse, fire their muskets at the mutineers who are armed only with pistols and have not reached their weapons' range , hitting one.

The others run for the trees. Still outside the stockade fence, Livesey and the others find that the fallen man is dead. But then one of the men in the trees shoots Redruth with a pistol, and, after he is brought into the blockhouse, the old gamekeeper dies.

Captain Smollett has brought his English flag ashore, and now he sets it on a pole above the stockade. The ship's gun continues to fire on them, to little effect, for they are nearly out of its range. Smollett tells the doctor that they have plenty of arms but that, having lost most of their food when the boat sank, they will not be able to survive long, and he asks about the consort that Trelawney arranged at Bristol to come after them if they were late in returning.

He is told that it will be a matter of months before help arrives, far too long, and so he sends two of the men to salvage what they can from the sunken boat, which will now be exposed at low tide.

But they find that the mutineers are ahead of them, already bringing up these supplies, and that they have somehow armed themselves with muskets from what must have been a secret store. The captain has begun a log, setting down their names and situation, when Jim Hawkins, coming over the wall of the stockade, hails them. In Chapter 19 "Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade" Jim takes up the story again where he left it, three chapters earlier, sighting the British colors flying above the stockade.

Gunn assures him that Silver would fly the pirates' flag, not this one, and that therefore the squire and his group must be occupying the stockade.

He instructs Jim to tell the squire about him and his offer, lets him know where and when to find him, and — as firing from the Hispaniola commences — he and Jim flee, separately. Jim stays hidden until sunset and then approaches the shore, where he sees the pirates' colors flying from the ship and, after the end of the bombardment, watches the mutineers on the beach destroy the boat that has brought his friends to the island.

Then he goes to the stockade, where he is greeted happily, and tells his story. Captain Smollett sets them all tasks and arranges watches. The Doctor asks Jim about Ben Gunn, and tells him that the castaway cannot be expected to appear sane after three years alone here. Livesey has a piece of Parmesan cheese and says he'll give it to Gunn.

He, Smollett, and Trelawney confer and decide their best course of action is to try to kill the pirates one by one until they are so weakened that the survivors are forced to leave with the ship. They hear the pirates a half-mile off, singing drunkenly for half the night, and the doctor says they will be sick with fever in a few days, camped near the swamp as they are.

In the morning Jim wakes to hear someone announcing that Silver has arrived with a flag of truce. Going to one of the gun ports in the blockhouse wall Chapter 20, "Silver's Embassy" , Jim sees Silver and another man just outside the stockade.

Silver uses the moment to reveal that he is now in possession of the map and to regain their trust. The pirates celebrate. A hero's welcome - he has taken possession of the Hispaniola single-handed When they all saw the ship had gone Livesey and Silver struck a deal - the map in return for freedom Livesey believes the map is now useless because there is no ship to take the treasure away. They decide that Jim is a 'meddler' and must be killed; they also decide that Silver should have the 'black spot'.

Becasue the spot is on a page that has been cut from a bible - and thus the two cancel each other out according to Stevenson's invented pirate lore. Main content. Treasure Island: 6. Punto nero. Episode 8 of the story. Tutorial for Song 6. Song 6: 'Punto nero' vocal. Song 6: 'Punto nero' backing. The story. Silver finally has the treasure map.