He finds Silver - Long John Silver - down by the docks. Silver has just one leg. Silver rows Jim out to the Hispaniola, where the Squire is already waiting on board. Jim meets Captain Smollett and ...

He asks Jim to keep his eyes open for another sailor with one leg. Over the next few weeks Billy Bones has two visitors - one of whom hands him 'the black spot'. The effect of this pirate curse is ...