- Year Published: 1883 - Language: English - Country of Origin:
England - Source: Stevenson, R. L. (1883). Treasure Island.
London, England: Cassell and Co. - Flesch–Kincaid Level: 7.0 -
Word Count: 2,008 Stevenson, R. (1883). Part Three: My Shore
Adventure, Chapter 14: The First Blow. Treasure Island (Lit2Go
Edition). Retrieved May 22, 2013, from Stevenson, Robert Louis.
"Part Three: My Shore Adventure, Chapter 14: The First Blow."
Treasure Island. Lit2Go Edition. 1883. Web. <>. May 22, 2013.
Robert Louis Stevenson, "Part Three: My Shore Adventure, Chapter
14: The First Blow," Treasure Island, Lit2Go Edition, (1883),
accessed May 22, 2013,. I was so pleased at having given the
slip to Long John that I began to enjoy myself and look around
me with some interest on the strange land that I was in. I had
crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd,
outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts
of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile
long, dotted with a few pi