NOVIA The narrator's pet name for the woman he loves.
NOVICE MASTER The monk in charge of postulants at Our Lady of Bethlehem.
D'OGERON, BERTRAND The governor of Tortuga. He was later captured by the Spanish, but escaped.
OGG, CAPTAIN A subordinate of Captain Burt's.
OJEDA, CAPTAIN The Spanish master of the Castillo Blanco.
O'LEARY, 'PAT THE RAT' Under the narrator, the third mate of the Castillo Blanco.
O'MALLEY, GRACE An Irish pirate queen. Writing to Queen Elizabeth I, she called herself Grany Ne Mailly of Connaught.
OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM A newly reopened monastery outside Havana.
PATMOS An island in the Mediterranean.
PEARL COAST The eastern coast of Nicaragua opposite the Pearl Islands.
PEARL ISLANDS A group of small islands off the eastern coast of Nicaragua.
PEARL LAGOON A sheltered bay on the eastern coast of Nicaragua. It is extensive. A section of the Pearl Coast may be said to form its eastern boundary, and the mainland its western boundary.
PETE THE HANGMAN One of the narrator's crew on the Castillo Blanco.
PHIL, FATHER An associate pastor at Saint Teresa's.
PINKIE An albino Kuna girl.
PORTOBELLO A beautifully sited city on the Gulf of Mosquitoes.
PORT ROYAL A city at the mouth of Kingston Bay. Twice destroyed by earthquakes, it has been rebuilt each time.
PRINCESS The sloop commanded by Captain Harker.
PROVENCE A region of southeastern France.
QUILLIGAN, PADDY A member of the Sabina's pirate crew.
RACKAM, CALICO JACK A pirate captain who is said to have maintained a harem somewhere on the Cuban coast. Anne Bonney and Mary Read served in his crew.
READ, MARY An extraordinary woman who was successively a footman, a sailor on a British warship, a soldier, a merchant sailor, and a pirate, all while disguised as a man. She died in prison.
RED JACK An English pirate who volunteers for the prize crew of the New Ark. Later, quartermaster of the Castillo Blanco.
RED KNIFE One of the Cimaroons who joins Sabina's pirate crew.
RIO HATO A Spanish colonial town on the Pacific Coast of Darian, west of the city of Panama.
ROMBEAU The buccaneer who takes command of the Magdelena.
ROSA The narrator's first capture.
SABINA In full, the Santa Sabina de Roma. A pirate vessel commanded by the narrator. Formerly the Vincente.
SADDLE ISLANDS The Galapagos Islands. A Pacific island group lying on the equator six hundred miles from the mainland of South America.
SAINT BLAISE, GULF OF The body of water containing the San Blas Islands, q.v.
SAINT TERESA's A city parish.
SAN BLAS ISLANDS An archipelago on the Atlantic coast of Darien, between Portobello and the Gulf of Darien.
SANCHEZ, GENERAL The commander of Spanish troops in Venezuela.
SAN FELIPO A Spanish galleon, the largest of the treasure ships attacked by Captain Burt's flotilla.
SAN MATEO A Spanish merchant vessel.
SANTA CHARITA A Spanish merchant vessel. Captain Burt renames her the Weald.
SANTA LUCIA A Spanish galleon.
SANTA MARIA A Spanish colonial town at the mouth of the Tuira River; this river flows into the Gulf of San Miguel, an arm of the Pacific.
DE SANTIAGO, DON JOSe The owner of the Castillo Blanco.
DE SANTIAGO, PILAR Don Jose de Santiago's wife.
SCULLY, BISHOP The head of the narrator's diocese.
SENOR USUALLY, the first mate of the Santa Charita.
SNOW LADY Captain Gosling's ship.
SOCCORO A treasure ship attacked by the narrator and his friends.
SOLDIER SALVE Ferric chloride ointment, used at this time to treat every sort of wound, cut, bruise, and abrasion.
SPANISH MAIN The mainland of Spanish America. (Often misused and misunderstood.)
STRAIT OF MAGELLAN A narrow and contorted passage between the South American mainland and the island of Tierra del Fuego.
SURREY An English county, south of London.
SWAN, CAPTAIN CHARLES A pirate who sailed across the Pacific to raid the Philippines and Spice Islands. He was eventually marooned by his crew.
EL TABLAZO A notorious sandbar at the southern end of the Gulf of Venezuela.
TIBURON PENINSULA A long, mountainous finger of land at the southwestern corner of Hispaniola.
TIERRA DEL FUEGO A large island at the southern tip of South America. Cape Horn is on a small island south of Tierra del Fuego.
TOLEDO A city in Spain famous for cutlery.
TORTUGA A smaller island on the north coast of Hispaniola.
TROY (WEIGHT) A system used by jewelers in which a Troy pound is divided into twelve Troy ounces.
VALDEZ, ADMIRAL A Spanish naval hero.
VALENTIN An indentured servant who has fled his master. Vanderhorst A merchant on Virgin Gorda.
VASCO A sailor aboard the Santa Charita.
VENEZUELA, GULF OF A sea at the northernmost extremity of South America, open to the Caribbean to the north.
VERACRUZ A port on the east coast of New Spain.
VINCENTE In full, the San Vincente de Zaragozza. The Spanish name of the ship that becomes the Sabina.
VIRGIN GORDA One of the Virgin Islands. It lies due east of Tortola, from which it is plainly visible.
WAHL, FATHER The pastor emeritus of Holy Family.
WEALD Earlier the Santa Charita. Captain Burt's flagship.
WEST INDIES A vague term covering the Bahamas and all the islands of the Caribbean, including the Antilles.
WILLY Mzwilili, q.v.
WINDWARD The sloop the narrator bought in Port Royal.
Windward Passage A wide channel between Hispaniola and Cuba.
YANCY A pirate with whom the narrator duels.
YUCATAN CHANNEL The channel between Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula. It connects the Caribbean Sea with the Gulf of Mexico.
ZAMBO MOSKITO A member of the Moskito tribe of Native American and African ancestry.
ZAVALA The oldest man on the Santa Charita.
ZUMAYA A treasure ship attacked by the narrator and his friends.
