Davie arrives at his uncle Ebenezer's run-down estate, the House of Shaws, hoping for help but finding only suspicion. Ebenezer locks Davie in at night and acts strangely about Davie's father. Davie realizes Ebenezer is hiding something and doesn't trust him. Ebenezer then gives Davie money and asks him to help with chores, luring Davie into a trap by sending him to a dangerous unfinished tower in the dark. Their journey to see the lawyer is interrupted when Ebenezer insists on stopping at the merchant ship Covenant, where Davie is kidnapped to be sold into slavery.

1. CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Chapter-1
• Chapter-2
• Chapter-3
• Chapter-4
• Chapter-5
• Chapter-6
• Chapter-7
• Chapter-8
• Chapter-9
• Chapter-10

2. INTRODUCTION
• At the beginning of the book, David (Davie) Balfour is a recently orphaned seventeen-year-old. His father has just died, so it is up to him to seek his own fortune. A good friend of
his, the Protestant Minister of Essendean, hands Davie a letter from his deceased father telling him to head to the house of Shaws. Davie doesn't know how his father is related to the
house of Shaws, but he is excited at the idea of meeting a laird (a kind of Scottish nobleman, like a "lord"). He thinks maybe he'll be able to get a job in the Shaws household. So he
walks to the seat of the house of Shaws, near Edinburgh, to ask for help.
When Davie arrives at the house, however, he is much disappointed. The owner is actually Davie's uncle, Ebenezer Balfour. Ebenezer is a miser and kind of a jerk. He even
attempts to kill Davie on one occasion. Why is he so threatened by Davie? We're not going to find out for sure until around Chapter 29 of 30. Still, Davie is fairly sure that
Ebenezer hates him because he is the rightful heir to the house of Shaws. At any rate, Davie manages to get the upper hand over Ebenezer, who promises to bring Davie to see his
lawyer, Mr. Rankeillor, to get a full explanation of Ebenezer's relationship to Davie's father.
On their way to see Mr. Rankeillor, Ebenezer insists on stopping by a ship that he's made some investments in, which is anchored in the seaside town of Queensferry. The ship is
called the Covenant and is captained by a Mr. Hoseason. Once Davie is aboard, Hoseason distracts him with a tour of the ship while Ebenezer hops in a rowboat and rows back to
shore. Davie has been kidnapped! It turns out that Ebenezer has told Hoseason to sell Davie to a plantation in the Carolinas. Davie's in a real pickle.
The Covenant is still sailing around Scotland when Davie's luck changes. One foggy night, the Covenant accidentally runs into a small boat. There is only one survivor from the
boat, a man named Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run from the law. Alan is carrying a giant money belt, which is too tempting for Captain Hoseason to resist. Hoseason starts
to plot with his first mate, Mr. Riach, to steal the gold and kill Alan. Davie overhears this plot and runs to Alan to warn him. Alan and Davie fortify one of the deck rooms, the
round-house, and band together against the rest of the Covenant crew. They manage to hold their own, and finally Hoseason agrees to let Alan off in Appin, in the Scottish
Highlands, which is Alan's home country. Alan is a Jacobite, meaning that he was part of a Highland uprising against the English throne in 1745. He's a wanted man, and he only
feels safe at home in Appin.
Unfortunately, the western portion of the Scottish coast is extremely rocky. The Covenant runs up against a hidden reef and sinks. Davie is thrown from the ship by a wave and
winds up washed ashore on the barren island of Earraid. (Here, we definitely suggest that you consider consulting a map.) Davie suffers from hunger and thirst and all-around
sickness for a while before discovering that the island he's on is only an island at high tide. When the tide goes out, you can walk to the next island over, the island of Mull, which
Davie does.
As Davie starts exploring Mull, he finds out that Alan has been leaving coded messages for him, instructing him on how to find him. Davie heads toward Alan's home of Appin and
reaches the forest of Lettermore, where a group of men is making its way down the road. One of the men is Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure (whom Alan calls Red Fox). This man is

3. CHAPTER-1
• It’s the morning of the second day of davie’s long walk.he can finaly see• He asks for directions to the town of Cramond from a local shepherd.
• • Davie keeps walking and reaches the parish of Cramond. He starts asking about the house of Shaws.
• • He notices that when he mentions the house of Shaws people start acting a little weird. Could there be something wrong with the Shaws?
• • Davie sees someone coming down the road with a cart and decides to asks the fellow about the house of Shaws.
• • The fellow says that the house is pretty big, but as for the people there – well, there is the lord, Ebenezer, but decent people like Davie should keep clear.
• • The next person Davie speaks to is a barber, and he agrees with the cartman that Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws is "nae kind of a man, nae kind of a man at all"
(2.15) ("nae" is Scots for "no").
• • Davie starts to feel unsettled by these comments, which are vague enough to leave lots of room to the imagination. Still, he's got his pride, so he keeps going.
• • Finally, just at sundown, Davie meets a bitter-looking woman. She points to a house at the bottom of the next valley and starts yelling. She tells Davie that, if
he sees Ebenezer (the lord), Davie should tell him that this is the 1,219th time that Jennet Clouston has cursed his household.
• • By now Davie is really feeling unnerved. He sits down and stares at the house of the Shaws. The thing is, while the countryside surrounding the house is
totally beautiful, the house itself is like a ruins.
• • The sun sets and Davie is starting to feel hungry. He sees a thin line of smoke rising from the house of Shaws and decides that there must be someone living there
after all.
• • So he goes to knock on the door. No one answers. He knocks again and listens to the stillness, but it's as though "whoever was in that house kept deadly still, and
must have held his breath" (2.27).
• • Davie starts getting a little ticked off: he's come all this way, after all. So he starts kicking and punching the door and calling for Mr. Balfour.
• • He finally gets an answer: a man in a nightcap leans out a window above him, holding a "blunderbuss" (2.28) (a kind of eighteenth century gun that you might
recognize from Pirates of the Caribbean).
• • Davie tells the man that he has a letter of introduction for Mr. Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, which he plans to deliver in person. Davie then announces himself
as David Balfour.
• • This visibly surprises the nightcapped man, who asks Davie if his father has died.
• • Davie doesn't reply to this and the man says that Davie's father must have died if Davie is at his door. He offers to let Davie in.

4. CHAPTER-2
• The door opens and Davie goes in, only to be told to go into the kitchen and not to touch anything.
• The nightcapped man closes and relocks the door behind Davie, then joins him in the kitchen.
• Davie gets a better look at him: he is thin, stooped, grey, unshaven, and somewhere between fifty and seventy. Davie thinks he looks like a servant – and a bad
one, at that.
• The guy asks if Davie is hungry and offers him porridge ("parritch" (3.5)) while taking a mug of beer for himself.
• The guy wants Davie's letter; Davie won't give it to anyone but Ebenezer.
• "Who de ye think I am?" (3. 9) answers the man. It's his uncle!
• Davie is immensely disappointed at this news, and he wants to cry but manages not to. Instead, he silently hands over the letter to Ebenezer.
• Ebenezer asks if Davie "kens" (Scots for "knows") what's in the letter? Davie admits that, when he heard he had rich relations, he was hopeful of help, but he's
not a beggar, if that's what Ebenezer is asking.
• During this whole conversation, Ebenezer is working hard to avoid meeting Davie's eyes. Davie wonders if this is because Ebenezer has lived alone too long.
• Ebenezer claims that Davie's father, Alexander, was secretive. Davie admits that he didn't know that his father had a brother until after his death.
• Ebenezer seems happy about this news, then offers to show Davie to bed.
• Ebenezer says that he doesn't believe in lighting houses, so keeps the old place in complete darkness. He shows Davie to a cold, dark, damp room and locks him in
from the outside.
• The next morning, Ebenezer lets Davie out of his room and the two have breakfast together: beer and porridge again.
• Ebenezer asks after Davie's mother (who is dead) and his friends. Davie tells Ebenezer about "different gentlemen" (3.40) named Campbell (he's stretching
the truth here because he doesn't want to seem helpless – we know there's only one Mr. Campbell).
• Ebenezer tells Davie that family is very important to him, and that if Davie will give him a day or two and will "say naething to naebody," he'll "do right" (3.43)
by Davie.
• Davie says that he'll be very grateful. He then asks if he can put his bed sheets out to dry because they were damp the night before. Ebenezer seems a little angry
at this request (which we think is pretty reasonable), but he soon changes his tune and reminds Davie that the two of them belong to the same family.
• Davie passes along Jennet Clouston's curses, which sends Ebenezer into a rage. He gets dressed to go out.
• Ebenezer tells Davie that when he's not home he'll have to lock Davie out of the house.
• Davie won't stand for this. He complains that Ebenezer doesn't even seem to like him, so he can't imagine why Ebenezer is keeping him there.
• Again, Ebenezer seems very angry, but he hides it quickly and protests that he likes Davie just fine. Ebenezer really seems to want Davie to stay at the house
of Shaws

5. CHAPTER-3
•After this direct confrontation, Davie is pretty surprised that the rest of the day isn't so bad. After breakfast, he finds Ebenezer's library, which he spends the rest
of the afternoon perusing.
•Davie finds something a little odd, though. On the front page of a pamphlet (called a "chap-book" (4. 2)), there is an inscription in his dad's handwriting to his
brother Ebenezer on his fifth birthday. But Davie is sure that Alexander was the younger brother. So either his dad learned to write really well when he was around
four years old, or else he must have (weirdly) gotten Ebenezer's age wrong.
•Davie later asks Ebenezer if his father was an exceptionally quick student, and Ebenezer says no. Davie asks Ebenezer if he and Alexander were twins, and
Ebenezer jumps up and grabs Davie by his jacket.
•Davie tells Ebenezer to let him go and asks what this is all about.
•Ebenezer pulls himself together and asks Davie not to speak of Alexander any more: it's too painful for him.
•Davie begins to wonder if his uncle is either crazy or trying to keep him from something that is rightfully his.
•Ebenezer tells Davie that he's set aside some money for him, from before his birth. It's 40 pounds – and there's a weird little negotiation here. At first, Ebenezer
says that he's promised Davie 40 Scottish pounds, which would have been worth about 2 English pounds. But Davie says, "Pounds sterling, I believe!" (4.14), and
his uncle agrees, even though 40 English pounds (pounds sterling) would be about 20 times the value of Ebenezer's original offer.
•Ebenezer sends Davie out the door while he counts out this money.
•Davie is sure that Ebenezer is lying to him about this whole setting-aside-money story, but he's okay with going along with it for now. So he steps outside and notices
that a storm is coming in.
•Ebenezer calls Davie back in and gives him 37 guinea pieces (about 38 pounds and 17 shillings). Davie is amazed by Ebenezer's sudden generosity when he is so
obviously a terrible miser.
•Ebenezer says that, now, Davie owes him. Davie promises to do whatever Ebenezer wants (so long as it's reasonable).
•Ebenezer asks for help with the house and garden, as he's getting old. Davie accepts. Ebenezer suggests they start now and sends Davie – still in the dark, because
Ebenezer hates lights in the house – to a tower at the end of the house for some papers.
•Davie dutifully heads outside to the stairs to the tower. It's pitch black outside and he has to feel his way along the wall to find the staircase, which is uneven and
dangerous underfoot.
•What makes the staircase even more dangerous is that it is unfinished! It only rises to a certain point. Fortunately, a flash of lighting lights up the scene, preventing
Davie from falling five stories straight down.

6. CHAPTER-4
• now knows his uncle hates him. He starts imagining how he'll get the better of Ebenezer, and the thought really tickles his fancy. He's feeling
pretty full of himself by now.
• Davie brings Ebenezer down to breakfast, then asks him point blank what is going on.
• Ebenezer says he'll tell Davie just after breakfast. Davie's sure he's going to be lied to again.
• Just when things are getting interesting, there's a knock at the door. Davie goes to answer.
• It's a kid, dressed like a sailor and blue from the cold. He starts doing a kind of sailor dance, sings a snatch of poetry, and then says he has a message
from "old Heasyoasy" to "Mr. Belflower" (5.12) – by which he means Balfour.
• The letter is from Elias Hoaseason, an agent who's in business with Ebenezer to back a merchant ship, the Covenant.
• Ebenezer suggests that Davie come with Ebenezer to the docks to talk to a nearby lawyer, Mr. Rankeillor. This Rankeillor can supposedly
prove that Ebenezer's story (which we still haven't heard) is true.
• Davie decides the Ferry area will be crowded and his uncle won't have a chance to try anything funny. So they head out with the cabin boy.
• It turns out that the boy is named Ransome, and he's been at sea since he was nine. Ransome is not talking much sense: he shows Davie a terrible
open wound inflicted on him by one of the officers of the Covenant, "Mr. Shuan," which he seems to think is a sign of what a great man Mr. Shuan is.
• Davie thinks all of Ransome's talk proves what an awful ship the Covenant must be, even though the name seems religious.
• At this point we need to give you a bit of historical background about the name of this ship. The Covenanters were a group of very political
Presbyterian Christians who attempted to form a system of government around the Church of Scotland in the seventeenth century. This pitted the Covenanters
against the Anglican church, which acknowledges the ruling king or queen of England as its leader. So at the same time that England is trying to take over
Scotland, the English and the Scottish churches are getting involved in the brawl between the two countries. It all becomes pretty confusing, but the essential point is:
the Covenanters are associated with Scottish patriotism, the Scottish Parliament, and a movement against the English kings (source). And we know that Stevenson
is probably using "covenant" to remind his readers of this history because he refers to Patrick Walker, a Covenant pamphlet writer, elsewhere in the book (4.2).
• The boy, Ransome, continues, talking about the "twenty-pounders" (5.31), people who are kidnapped or sold into slavery and who are therefore even
worse off than Ransome is.
• Another point of clarification here: Davie refers to people "trepanned [. . .] for private interest or vengeance" (5.31). Trepanning is an old word
that means kidnapping someone to make them work for you. He's definitely not talking about the crazy surgical procedure, also called trepanning, where you drill a
hole into some poor guy's head to relieve pressure on the brain. Just FYI!
• From the top of a hill, Davie can finally see the river Forth emptying into the harbor, where a ferry is set up for upriver travel from the sea. Beyond

7. CHAPTER-5
• Ransome, Davie, and Ebenezer arrive at Hawes Inn, where they encounter a cool, self-possessed-looking guy: Elias Hoseason, captain of the
Covenant.
• Ebenezer comments that Hoseason keeps his room really hot.
• Hoseason replies that he's always freezing -- he has cold blood.
• Ebenezer says all right, we can't help how we're made.
• Davie has decided he's going to stick close to Ebenezer. But the room is really stuffy. So when Ebenezer suggests that Davie go off and amuse
himself for a bit, Davie does it.
• Davie looks out at the bay and starts to feel pretty excited: the smell of the sea and the sight of the ship make him think of trips to far-off places.
• The look of the crew puts Davie off a bit, though: they all seem like criminals, with their swearing and desperate appearance.
• Ransome comes out of the inn and joins Davie, and they head off for a brew at the inn.
• Davie asks the innkeeper if he knows a Mr. Rankeillor.
• The innkeeper asks if Davie came in with Ebenezer, and Davie says yes.
• The innkeeper asks if Davie is a relative of Ebenezer's. Davie lies and says no. The innkeeper says – and here the plot thickens – that Davie does
look a little bit like Alexander.
• The innkeeper confirms that Ebenezer is much hated throughout the area because he's driven a lot of local tenants out of their homes (including
Jennet Clouston). Still, it's sad, the innkeeper continues: Ebenezer was a good, handsome young guy, but that all changed when the rumor got around that he killed
his older brother, Alexander.
• Davie is thrilled to find out that it's just as he suspected: Alexander was Ebenezer's older brother, which makes Davie heir to the house of Shaws.
His fortune's been made!
• Just as Davie thinks this, he sees Hoseason through the inn window and tells us, the readers, that Hoseason is neither so good as he looks nor so bad
as Ransome says he is. But Hoseason's at his worst on his ship.
• Next, Davie hears Ebenezer calling him from outside, and he goes to join Hoseason and Ebenezer.
• Hoseason invites Davie to come aboard the Covenant for half an hour to share a drink with him.
• Davie wants to say yes because he's really curious about the inside of a ship, but he's suspicious, so he tells Hoseason he and his uncle have an
appointment with a lawyer.

8. CHAPTER-6
• When Davie regains consciousness, he finds himself tied up and in pain in a dark room.
• The intense rocking of the ship convinces Davie that they are in a storm. He is so afraid for his future and so angry at his uncle that he faints again.
• When Davie comes to a second time, seasickness is added to his list of troubles. This, Davie tells us, is pretty much the worst moment in his life,
these miserable first hours on the Covenant.
• Davie hears gunfire. He finds out afterwards that these shots have come from the town of Dysart, which the Covenant was passing. The captain
Mr. Hoseason's mother lived in Dysart, and whenever the Covenant passed, she fired shots and raised a flag in her son's honor.
• Davie has no idea how long he spent in "that ill-smelling cavern of the ship's bowels" (7.4) before he falls asleep a third time.
• Davie wakes up to a light shining on his face from a lantern held by a guy in his thirties, with green eyes and light hair.
• The stranger asks Davie how he is.
• Davie starts to cry. The stranger cleans the injury on Davie's head and tells him to cheer up. He offers Davie food, gives him a bit of brandy and
water, then leaves.
• When the stranger returns a bit later, Davie is wandering in the head with a bad fever.
• The stranger is accompanied this time by Captain Hoseason. The stranger tells Hoseason that Davie is ill, and he needs to be brought up above
deck.
• The captain says tough – Davie's not going anywhere.
• The stranger – whose name, we now learn, is Mr. Riach – tells Captain Hoseason that he (Riach) was hired to be the ship's second mate. He
hasn't been paid for anything more, and he won't help in committing murder.
• Captain Hoseason is angry that Riach could suspect him of such a thing. He tells Riach to take Davie wherever he pleases, if he thinks Davie
will die otherwise.
• Davie notices two things: Riach is a little drunk, and he seems like he'll be a good friend to him.
• Riach frees Davie and carries him up to a bunk in the forecastle, where Davie falls asleep yet again.
• When Davie wakes up, he's glad to see the sun at last. He's also no longer alone: there are sailors all around.
• Davie spends many days in the bunk recuperating.
• He also gets to know the Covenant's sailors. While they're kind of rough -- and several of them are out-and-out criminals – he feels guilty about
how judgmental he was when he first saw them at the Queen's Ferry.

9. CHAPTER-7
• When Davie regains consciousness, he finds himself tied up and in pain in a dark room.
• The intense rocking of the ship convinces Davie that they are in a storm. He is so afraid for his future and so angry at his uncle that he faints again.
• When Davie comes to a second time, seasickness is added to his list of troubles. This, Davie tells us, is pretty much the worst moment in his life,
these miserable first hours on the Covenant.
• Davie hears gunfire. He finds out afterwards that these shots have come from the town of Dysart, which the Covenant was passing. The captain
Mr. Hoseason's mother lived in Dysart, and whenever the Covenant passed, she fired shots and raised a flag in her son's honor.
• Davie has no idea how long he spent in "that ill-smelling cavern of the ship's bowels" (7.4) before he falls asleep a third time.
• Davie wakes up to a light shining on his face from a lantern held by a guy in his thirties, with green eyes and light hair.
• The stranger asks Davie how he is.
• Davie starts to cry. The stranger cleans the injury on Davie's head and tells him to cheer up. He offers Davie food, gives him a bit of brandy and
water, then leaves.
• When the stranger returns a bit later, Davie is wandering in the head with a bad fever.
• The stranger is accompanied this time by Captain Hoseason. The stranger tells Hoseason that Davie is ill, and he needs to be brought up above
deck.
• The captain says tough – Davie's not going anywhere.
• The stranger – whose name, we now learn, is Mr. Riach – tells Captain Hoseason that he (Riach) was hired to be the ship's second mate. He
hasn't been paid for anything more, and he won't help in committing murder.
• Captain Hoseason is angry that Riach could suspect him of such a thing. He tells Riach to take Davie wherever he pleases, if he thinks Davie
will die otherwise.
• Davie notices two things: Riach is a little drunk, and he seems like he'll be a good friend to him.
• Riach frees Davie and carries him up to a bunk in the forecastle, where Davie falls asleep yet again.
• When Davie wakes up, he's glad to see the sun at last. He's also no longer alone: there are sailors all around.
• Davie spends many days in the bunk recuperating.
• He also gets to know the Covenant's sailors. While they're kind of rough -- and several of them are out-and-out criminals – he feels guilty about
how judgmental he was when he first saw them at the Queen's Ferry.

10. CAPTER-8
• Things take a dark turn: one night, a man comes into the forecastle muttering "Shuan had done for him at last" (8.1).
• Captain Hoseason enters as well and addresses Davie (much to his surprise).
• Hoseason tells Davie that, from now on, he's going to serve in the round-house, the highest cabin in a ship (source), which houses Captain
Hoseason, Shuan, and Riach. In other words, Davie's the ship's new cabin boy. But what's happened to the old cabin boy?
• At this point, two sailors come in to the forecastle carrying Ransome, whose face is pale and contorted.
• Hoseason quickly sends Davie away.
• Davie notices that, even though it's eleven at night, the sun is only just setting. But he doesn't realize what that means. The thing is, in the far northern Scottish
islands (the Orkney and the Shetland Islands) in the summer, the sun stays in the sky until late at night.
• Davie has gotten turned around: he thinks, because he's been locked up for so long, that they must be nearly across the Atlantic. But they haven't even left
Scotland yet. The headwinds blowing against the ship's masts have been blowing so strong in the wrong direction that the Covenant is hardly making any progress.
• Davie makes it to the round-house, where he sees Shuan sitting in a daze staring at the table.
• Captain Hoseason comes in looking stern, followed by Riach. Riach gives "the captain a glance that meant the boy was dead as plain as speaking" (8.10).
(That's a lot of grim news to cram into one glance.)
• Shuan reaches for the bottle of brandy in front of him, and Riach snatches it from him. Shuan jumps up, looking fit to kill Riach.
• Hoseason tells Shuan to sit down. Does he know what he's done?! He's killed Ransome!
• Shuan replies that Ransome brought him a dirty pannikin (a small cup).
• This reply freaks out Hoseason, Riach, and Davie.
• Hoseason tells Shuan to go lie down, and Shuan, crying a little, takes off his sea boots and obeys.
• Riach tells Hoseason he should have done something long ago to put a stop to Shuan's abuse of Ransome. Hoseason tells Riach that they must not tell anyone
back in Dysart (the ship's home harbor) what's really happened here tonight. Ransome went overboard, and that's their story. Then Riach and Hoseason settle in for a drink.
• Davie quickly adapts to his duties, which include serving meals and bringing the officers drinks when they ask for them. Working for all three officers, he's
always busy.
• Hoseason and Riach are both patient with his mistakes (perhaps because they're feeling bad about Ransome).
• Shuan seems to have gone a little crazy after his murder of Ransome: whenever Davie is around, Shuan stares at him continually. In fact, Shuan doesn't seem
to recall exactly what happened to Ransome, confuses Davie with Ransome, and generally worries all the time.
• Davie enjoys the stories he can sometimes get Riach and Hoseason to tell him about the world, but he's still not exactly happy. He hates serving three men he
doesn't respect, and he's dreading his future life as a slave on a plantation.

11. CHAPTER-9
• The Covenant's bad luck with the winds continues, and the ship makes little progress. Eventually they decide to turn south to stop going against
the prevailing winds.
• On the tenth day of his career as cabin boy, Davie is serving Riach and Hoseason their dinner when the ship suddenly hits something with a bang.
• It's night, the fog is thick, and the Covenant has managed to run down a rowboat. All of the boat's crew are lost except for one man.
• This single survivor is small and nimble, carries a pair of pistols and a sword, and has elegant manners. Davie immediately sees friend material in
the stranger.
• Davie can also tell that the captain has noticed the stranger's expensive clothing; he is no doubt eager to make a buck or two off this guy.
• Hoseason and the stranger then have a weird coded conversation that Davie doesn't entirely follow. The captain tells the stranger that he has been to
France. He notes that the stranger has a Scottish tongue and a French coat. The stranger asks, pretty much point blank, if Hoseason is a Jacobite. Hoseason says
he's a Protestant, but he's willing to help a guy out anyway.
• So what does all this stuff about France, Scotland, and the Jacobites mean? Forgive us for a long side note, but you really need this historical
information to understand what this new character is all about.
• Okay, here's the deal: in the 1640s and 50s, England had its very own civil war between believers in the divine rule of the king (also known as the
Royalists) and supporters of a democratically elected Parliament . At its most basic level, this war boiled down to a struggle over what gives a king power: is it god (as
the Royalists felt) or politics (as the Parliamentarians believed)?
• The Parliament won, for a little while at least, and King Charles I had his head chopped off. But then his son, Charles II, was put back on the
throne, and his brother, King James II of England and VII of Scotland, followed Charles II. A happy ending for the Royalists, you might think. But no!
The Parliamentarians weren't done yet.
• There was another revolution, in 1688, which removed James II and VII from power. (This is only one guy, even though he's got lots of numbers
following his name. If you want to know why he's the 2nd James of England but the 7th of Scotland, it's because Scotland had its own line of kings, a bunch of them
named James, before lucky James the First/Sixth got to take the English throne and keep the Scottish throne after the death of the childless English Queen
Elizabeth I.)
• The Parliament determined that it had the right to appoint kings to the throne, and never mind about God. Parliament gave the English throne
jointly to James II and VII's son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary (source).
• BUT! A number of people refused to recognize this new king and queen and continued to support James II and VII as the legitimate king of
Scotland and England. These people were called the Jacobites. James II and VII fled to the European continent (France for a bit, then Spain), and his

12. CHAPTER-10
• The captain gets impatient waiting on deck and sticks his head through the open door.
• Alan meets Hoseason with his drawn sword and tells him to prepare for a battle.
• Hoseason doesn't reply directly, but he does tell Davie that he'll remember this.
• Davie's not exactly afraid, but he's really, really keyed up: he's pretty sure they're going to lose, and he wants to make sure he takes as many of their enemies
down as he can.
• The first one to rush in is Shuan, whom Alan stabs through with his sword.
• Davie shoots into a crowd of men with a battering ram, trying to break through the door that Alan is guarding. They retreat.
• Alan warns Davie that this is just the beginning: he's killed two and Davie's wounded one, but that won't be enough to stop the crew.
• Davie recharges his pistols.
• He overhears some of the sailors on deck saying that Shuan is the one who messed it all up, and they should shut up about him ("wheesht" (10.22), the Scots
word for quiet) because he's dead.
• Davie warns Alan that they're coming back. Alan says there's nothing they can do but sit and wait.
• While they're sitting, Davie has time to start feeling afraid.
• Finally, Davie hears the whistle of a pipe, the signal for the second round of fighting to start. A bunch of sailors rush at the door and two guys jump in through
the skylight in the roof. Davie shoots the two men, then runs over to help Alan with the group by the door.
• Alan manages just fine by himself, though. The sailors (those who still can) run away from his sword.
• Inside the round-house, there are three dead guys, one who's dying, and Alan and Davie both totally intact.
• Alan seems pretty hyped up by all of this action: he embraces Davie and says that he loves him like a brother (we've reached the "I love you, man!" stage of this
bromance).
• Alan's so happy with his own performance that he bursts into song (seriously). He sings in Gaelic (the language of the Scottish Highlands), which Davie
translates into English. We have to say, the lyrics are pretty snappy: they're all about Alan's overall awesomeness.
• Davie's a little annoyed now that he's writing this down, because he realizes that the song says nothing about his contribution to all of this killing. At the
time, though, Davie tells us that he mostly felt sick about what he'd done. In fact, he starts to cry.
• Alan says that Davie's just tired and tells him to go to sleep; Alan plans to keep watch. The two of them trade watch duties all night, but there's not a peep from
the rest of the guys on the ship.