Chapter 6
Dr. Livesey and the squire examine the chart with its three red crosses and Flint's handwriting: 'Bulk of treasure here.' The scene that fixed the X-marks-the-spot trope in popular imagination.
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From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The map taken from Billy Bones's chest is the engine of the plot and the archetypal pirate-treasure symbol it helped invent.
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