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| CHARACTERS | Swallows (John, Susan, Titty, Roger [9 1/2 yrs. old] Walker) Amazons (Nancy, Peggy Blackett) Captain Flint--the "Lord Mayor of San Francisco" (Jim Turner) Missee Lee minor characters: Taicoon Chang, Taicoon Wu, the old amah, the counsellor, various pirate captains, the ex-cook, the signaller, and other sundry Chinese pirates, etc., Polly the parrot, Gibber the monkey |
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| LOCATION | South China Sea and the Chinese coast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TIME | no specific time given, though most likely told in the winter of 1932-3 (see notes, below) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BOATS | Wild Cat, Swallow, Amazon, Shining Moon, many pirate junks and sampans, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| NOTES | Although never mentioned in any of the other books as Peter Duck was, this is commonly agreed to be another "Peter Duck" tale; no specific time is given for its telling, or indeed, when it would have taken place (other than at the time of the "Dragon Festival"--Chinese New Year?), but as to place its telling, the following are clues: they knew Morse and semaphore, Roger was an A.B., not a ship's boy, Daddy was stationed at Hong Kong, but is no longer there; all of these point to it having been told the winter after We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea, etc. at the earliest; Nancy and Peggy were referred to as Captain Flint's wives by the Chinese pirates; they had been sailing around the world westward before the accident |
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