Characters
- Jack Aubrey - Captain of the Surprise
- Stephen Maturin - Ship's Surgeon, particular friend of Jack and an intelligence officer
- William Oakes - Midshipman on the Surprise
- Clarissa Harvill/Oakes - fugitive prisoner and stowaway then wife of William Oakes
- Captain Tom Pullings - 1st Lieutenant on the Surprise
- Mr Nathaniel Martin - Surgeon's Assistant on the Surprise
- Barret Bonden - Captain's Coxswain on the Surprise
- Preserved Killick - Captain's Steward on the Surprise
- Awkward Davies - Able Seaman on the Surprise
- Mr Reade - Midshipman on the Surprise
- Sarah and Emily Sweeting - Melanesian orphans; rated ship's boys on the Surprise
- West and Davidge - 2nd and 3rd Lieutenants on the Surprise
- Weightman - Butcher on the Surprise
- Jemmy Ducks - Poultry Keeper on the Surprise
- Adams - Captain's Clerk (nominally Purser) on the Surprise
- Puolani - Queen of the Polynesian island of Moahu
- Wainright - Captain of the Daisy
- Dr Falconer - Daisy's surgeon and a naturalist
- Jean Dutourd - Franklin's commander
- Pakeea - Annamooka Chieftain
- Tereo - Annamooka Senior Chieftain
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