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(not to be confused with the fairy Flint)

Captain J. Flint (first name never given) is a fictional^[1] pirate captain who is mentioned in Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie. He is in fact the creation of Robert Louis Stevenson, appearing as a historical figure in the novel Treasure Island as captain of the Walrus.

In Stevenson's book, Flint was responsible for burying an enormous treasure (approximately £700,000) on an island located in the Spanish Main 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. In Treasure Island, the only person Flint was said to fear was his quartermaster Long John Silver, who later called his parrot "Captain Flint" in mockery.

In Peter and Wendy Flint is mentioned in two places. The first mention is in a passage introducing Captain Hook's pirate crew: "Here is Bill Jukes, every inch of him tattooed, the same Bill Jukes who got six dozen on the WALRUS from Flint before he would drop the bag of moidores." The second mention is as Hook is attempting to intimidate the Darling children and the Lost Boys, but is heckled by his inner demons: "'I am the only man whom Barbecue feared,' he urged, 'and Flint feared Barbecue.' 'Barbecue, Flint—what house?' came the cutting retort."

Flint has a major part in the 1924 prequel Porto Bello Gold, by A. D. Howden Smith, which depicts the treasure's capture and burial.

[edit] Footnotes

1. ↑ Flint may have been based on a real person. According to French author Pierre Mac Orlan, Flint is mentioned by a certain M. C. Whitehead in his Life of the English Thieves and Pirates. Mac Orlan wrote this in his introduction for a French translation of Captain Johnson's General History of the pyrates in 1921 (see Pierre Mac Orlan, A Bord de L'Etoile Matutine, Gallimard, coll. folio, Paris, 1983, p. 208 (French language))

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