Treasure Island (1950 film) they finally reach the spot where the treasure – supposed to be 700,000 pounds – is supposed to be buried, they discover instead an empty pit, save for one guinea. The pirates turn on Silver, who manages to kill three of them before Smollett's men appear to defeat the rest. Greeting Silver, Gunn reveals that he dug up Flint's treasure and has stashed it in a cave. Despite keeping his end of the bargain, Captain Smollett still wants Silver taken back for trial in England for his mutiny. Hawkins, Trelawney and two others take Silver to the "Hispaniola" aboard a
Treasure Island M. Lopez wrote, "MS Found in a Bottle" (1833) and the intriguing tale of buried treasure, "The Gold-Scar" (1843). All of these works influenced Stevenson's end product. Specifically, however, Stevenson consciously borrowed material from previous authors. In a July 1884 letter to Anthony M. Lopez, he writes ""Treasure Island" came out of Kingsley's "At Last," where I got the Dead Man's Chest—and that was the seed—and out of the great Captain Johnson's "History of the Notorious Pirates."" Stevenson also admits that he took the idea of Captain Flint's pointing skeleton from Poe's "The Gold-Bug", and he constructed Billy Bones' history