PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

IN BATH

Catherine ‘Cat’ Royal – late of Drury Lane, your guide

Pedro Amakye – former slave, violinist, good at sea-shanties

Mr William Shepherd – crime lord who turns up like a bad penny

Frank, or the Earl of Arden – heir to a dukedom, under threat

Mr William Dixon – gentlemanly cousin of the Avon family

ON BOARD THE COURAGEOUS

Mr Syd Fletcher – press-ganged boxer, a faithful friend

Mr Maclean – purser and tormentor Captain ‘Barmy’ Barton – unhinged captain, haunted by demons

First Lieutenant Lely – his humane second-in-command

Lieutenant Belsize – ginger-haired junior officer

Mr Harkness – friendly ordinary seaman

Mr Nightingale – burly bosun’s mate

Mrs Foster – kindly gunner’s wife

IN THE INDIAN VILLAGE

Kanawha – young Creek fishergirl, a mean shot Tecumseh – her handsome warrior brother

Little Turtle – their shy amorous brother Killbuck – their wise uncle Grandmother Bee – an elderly medicine woman with a sharp sting

Chief McGillivray – rich and wily leader of the Creeks

Mr Davies and Mr Stuart – white explorers recording Indian customs

IN PHILADELPHIA

Mrs Elizabeth Fitzroy, or Lizzie – an old friend grown rather fat

Mr Jonathan Fitzroy, or Johnny – American citizen, proud husband

Dancing debutantes, sailors, Indian villagers, etc., etc.