Select the correct answer.
What is the meaning of the word miscellany based on its context in this excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island?
A strong smell of tobacco and tar rose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded. They had never been worn, my mother said. Under that, the miscellany began—a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
A.
items of value
B.
similar things
C.
junk
D.
collection of things