In response to the captain's curses and threats, Livesey calmly predicts that he'll die soon if he keeps on drinking. Livesey, the local physician who has come to treat Jim's ill (indeed, dying) father, goes on with his conversation. One night the captain, drunk and roaring, signals for silence while he sings, but Dr. The captain is dressed in rough, filthy clothes and spends no money, not even to pay for his room and board, of which fact Jim's father is too intimidated to remind him. He frequently gets drunk in the evenings and terrifies the other guests (who are nonetheless fascinated) by singing violent sea songs and demanding that everyone else join in. He pays Jim a small amount of money to watch out for other seamen, especially a sailor with one leg. Saying they can call him "the captain," he spends his stay watching the sea. Jim describes how a large, old sailor arrives one day to his father's inn, the Admiral Benbow, and rents a room. Livesey, and other gentlemen, leaving out nothing but the location of the island, where some treasure still remains. The narrator, Jim Hawkins, begins the first chapter ("The Old Sea Dog at the Admiral Benbow") by saying that he is writing this history at the request of Squire Trelawney, Dr.
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