... Everybody ran to see the island. I waited for a minute, then I climbed out of the barrel and ran, too. The ship was now quite near an island. ‘Does anybody know this island? ’ Captain Smollett ... where he could live and do his writing. In 1888, he went by ship to the Pacific islands, and after 1890 he lived on the island of Samoa, with his wife, mother and son. The Samoans called him ‘Tusitala’ ... pirates here in the old days. That hill in the centre of the island is called the Spy Glass.’ Then Captain Smollett showed Silver a map of the island. Silver looked at the map very carefully, but it...