Long John Silver

speaker

1,579 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 9 Aug

Long John Silver’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Story of King Arthur, in Twelve Tales · Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading)-Robert Louis Stevenson · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

We had no water.

I was thinking this over when there came ringing over the island the cry of a man at the point of death.

I was not new in violent death.

I had served his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and got a wound myself at Fontenoy, but I know my pulse went dot and carry one.

Jim Hawkins is gone, was my first thought.

It is something to have been an old soldier, but more still to have been a doctor.

There is no time to dilly dally in our work, and so now I made up my mind instantly, and with no time lost, returned to the shore and jumped on board the jolly boat.

By good fortune, Hunter pulled a good oar, we made the water fly, and the boat was soon alongside, and I aboard the schooner.

I found them all shaken, as was natural.

The squire was sitting down as white as a sheet, thinking of the harm he had led us to, the good soul.

And one of the six forecastle hands was little better.

There's a man, says Captain Smollett, nodding towards him.

New to this work, he said.

He came nigh hand fainting, doctor, when he heard the cry.

Another touch of the rudder, and that man will join us.

I told my plan to the captain, and between us we settled on the details of its accomplishment.

We put old Red Ruth in the gallery between the cabin and the forecastle with three or four loaded muskets and a mattress for protection.

Hunter brought the boat round under the stern port, and Joyce and I set to work, loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac, and my invaluable medicine chest.

In the meantime, the squire and the captain stayed on deck, and the latter hailed the coxswain, who was the principal man aboard.

Mr.

Showing 661–680 of 1,579 · page 34 of 79