Activity for TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson: "How to Tie a Bowline Like a Sailor"

You can’t sail off in search of treasure until you can tie a few nautical knots - or at least the bowline knot. Not only do you need it to sail, but to keep your competitors in line. Remember when young Jim Hawkins got “all tied up” in the hunt?
"I had a line about my waist and followed obediently after the sea-cook, who held the loose end of the rope, now in his free hand, now between his powerful teeth." - Ch. 31, Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
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ABOUT THE BOOK
In the mid-eighteenth century, an old sea captain dies at the Admiral Benbow Inn in England. The innkeeper’s son, Jim Hawkins, discovers a treasure map among the man’s belongings, and shows the map to a trusted doctor and a squire. Together they procure the Hispanolia and set sail with an ominous crew, which they soon find out includes pirates! There’s enough mutiny, pirate talk, espionage, and swashbuckling to enthrall the most thrill-seeking reader.
This story will also inspire honesty and encourage bravery, for Treasure Island is a tale of Jim’s quest for a treasure: not just a shiny metal, but his mettle.