Most of the verses for "Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest" (aka "Derelict") were of course composed years later by a newspaper man Young E. Allison as published in the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1891. The chorus evidently composed by Stevenson does appear in his book, © 1883.

"Dead Man's Chest" itself is reported to be a Caribbean island rendezvous of buccaneers and smugglers, in a book titled At Last by Charles Kingsley which Robinson credits as his source for the name.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble