Duel with Israel Hands aboard the Hispaniola

1 Israel Hands smiles at Jim while his eyes slide away toward the dead O'Brien on the deck.

2 Alone at the scuppers, Israel Hands pulls a bloody dirk from a coil of rope and tests it

3 Propped against the bulwark with a broken bottle, Israel Hands says dead men don't bite

4 The schooner glides down North Inlet toward a dead three-master with a flowering deck

5 Jim turns from the tiller to see Israel Hands half-way across the deck, dirk raised

6 Jim leaps clear and the loose tiller swings over to hit Israel Hands full in the chest

7 On the mizzen cross-trees, Jim aims two pistols at Israel Hands, dirk in his teeth

8 In the tarred shrouds, the coxswain cocks his blood-darkened dirk back over his shoulder

9 A thrown dirk nails Jim Hawkins by the shoulder to the mizzen mast.

10 The coxswain lets go of the mizzen shrouds and falls head first toward North Inlet