When a pirate is on a ship or ransacking something with his crew mates, drinking and loud singing make sense. When Billy Bones shows up on Treasure Island, he is degrading, cutting himself off ...

Black Dog tells Jim he has come to see his old ship-mate Billyand talk square. But they’re not friends, it seems… Black Dog: You’re a dead man walking! Billy Bones: And you’re a scurvy dog!

Narrator: Three weeks after Jim Hawkins escapes the pirate gang with Billy Bones’treasure map ... Cabin boy to the new ship. Long John Silver: Is that so? Jim: Squire Trelawney’s ship.