我應鄉紳崔洛尼、利佛西大夫與其他先生要求,於一七__年提筆寫下金銀島的種種事蹟,從頭到尾沒有一點遺漏,只保留島的精確位置,因為島上仍然留有寶藏。故事要從我父親當年經營「本波上將」旅店說起,那時來了一名老水手,皮膚黝黑,臉上有個刀疤。(《金銀島》,穆卓芸譯,2009年,天下雜誌出版)
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| 啟明書局出版,1947年9月三版 |
曲里老納紳士,呂勿西醫生,和那其他幾個人士們,都請我將金銀島的全部的事蹟詳細的寫下來,除了那島的位置以外,別的一點也不漏掉牠,那是因為尚有不少的財寶在這島上,沒有開發出來的緣故。於是我便在紀元一七⋯⋯年開始載述那件事。我回想從前我的爸爸開那上將朋寶旅館時候的情形,那時有個老水手,他的皮膚糭黑,臉孔上有著刀疤,曾經也來投宿在我的家裡的。
Squire Relawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17— and go back to the time when my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
