Treasure Island (1950 film) country inn which they run. Captain William Bones, a sickly lodger, gives Jim a treasure map after being visited by two pirates, the second of whom gives the captain a note marked with the black spot. That same night Bones is found dead at the inn, and Jim shows Squire Trelawney the map. Trelawney recognizes the map as belonging to the buccaneer Captain Flint and bankrolls a voyage to discover the pirate's lost treasure. Trelawney hires Captain Smollett and his ship, the "Hispaniola", bringing along his friend Dr. Livesey as the ship's doctor and Jim as the cabin boy. Before
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