Captain Flint
Captain J. Flint (first name never given in full in the novel) was the fictional captain of a pirate ship, the Walrus, in the novel Treasure Island of the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).
Flint was responsible for burying an enormous treasure (approximately £700,000) on an island located in the Caribbean Sea in which he was assisted by six of his crew-members. After the treasure was buried, he murdered all six of them and left the corpse of Allardyce with outstretched arms pointing to the location of the treasure.
The location of the treasure was marked by Flint on a map dated 1750 that was entrusted to his first mate William "Billy" Bones, and later into the hands of the hero of the novel, Jim Hawkins.
The only person Flint was said to fear was his quartermaster John Silver, who later even called his parrot "Captain Flint" in mockery.
Flint is said to have died in Savannah, shouting "Darby M'Graw - fetch aft the rum...." His death was said in the book to have been caused by the effects of rum. The inscription on the map suggests that he died in 1754.
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