Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

Pierre Aronnax

Also known as M. Aronnax · Professor Aronnax · the Professor

The first-person narrator, a French assistant professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, a marine-life specialist, and a trained doctor and surgeon. After witnessing Captain Nemo sink a warship in an act of vengeance, he escapes the Nautilus with Ned Land and Conseil; they survive the maelstrom and reach the Loffoden Isles, where Aronnax writes his account.

Conseil

Aronnax’s Flemish servant and devoted companion, who has followed him on scientific travels for ten years. He escapes the Nautilus with Aronnax and Ned Land, and the three survive the maelstrom and reach the Loffoden Isles.

Ned Land

Also known as the Canadian · the harpooner · Master Land · friend Ned

A Canadian master harpooner of French-Canadian descent, famed for his skill and courage. He helps Aronnax plan their escape from the Nautilus, and the two escape with Conseil; all three survive the maelstrom and reach the Loffoden Isles.

Captain Nemo

Also known as the commander · the Unknown

The enigmatic commander of the Nautilus, who reveals that the sunken French ship Avenger’s heroic resistance inspires him. After a warship attacks the Nautilus, he deliberately rams and sinks it, explaining that the vessel represents the people who destroyed his country, wife, children, father, and mother. Aronnax later hears him sob before portraits of a woman and two children, then murmur, “Almighty God! enough! enough!”; his fate remains unknown.

Nautilus second lieutenant

Also known as the second lieutenant

An unnamed officer aboard the Nautilus who recites a daily phrase on the platform. He appears on the platform with sailors before the Nautilus attacks the approaching warship.

Nautilus crewmen

Also known as the sailors

Unnamed crewmen aboard the Nautilus who gather around Captain Nemo with shared hatred for the approaching warship and prepare the submarine for its attack.

The woman in Captain Nemo’s portrait

An unnamed woman, still young, shown in a portrait in Captain Nemo’s room. Nemo stretches his arms toward the portrait and weeps after sinking the warship.

The children in Captain Nemo’s portrait

Also known as two little children

Two unnamed children shown with a young woman in a portrait in Captain Nemo’s room. Nemo stretches his arms toward the portrait and weeps after sinking the warship.

Cyrus Field

The determined promoter of the transatlantic cable project, who risked his fortune and organized a new subscription after earlier cable attempts failed.

Captain Anderson of the Great Eastern

Also known as Captain Anderson

The captain of the Great Eastern during the successful 1866 laying of the transatlantic cable. He consults with the ship’s officers and engineers after nails are found driven into the cable, and posts a warning against the saboteur.

Officers of the Great Eastern

Also known as the officers

Unnamed officers who consult with Captain Anderson and the engineers after nails are found driven into the transatlantic cable.

Engineers of the Great Eastern

Also known as the engineers

Unnamed engineers aboard the Great Eastern who help oversee the laying of the transatlantic cable and consult with Captain Anderson after sabotage is discovered.

The cable saboteur

Also known as the offender · the criminal

An unidentified person aboard the Great Eastern who repeatedly drives nails into the transatlantic cable in an apparent attempt to destroy it. The sabotage stops after Captain Anderson posts a warning.

La Poype-Vertrieux

The commander of the French ship Marseillais when it fought the Preston in 1778.

Admiral Estaing

Also known as Estaing

The admiral whose squadron took part in the capture of Grenada in 1779.

Comte de Grasse

The commander associated with the French fleet at the Battle of Chesapeake Bay in 1781.

Villaret Joyeuse

The commander of a French squadron at Brest in 1794, which included the Marseillais.

Admiral Van Stebel

The commander of the Marseillais in 1794, when it escorted a cargo of corn from America.

Avenger

Also known as Marseillais

A French ship of seventy-four guns, launched as the Marseillais in 1762 and renamed Avenger by the French Republic. It sank with its crew rather than surrendering after a battle in 1794; Captain Nemo reveres its resistance.

Preston

An English vessel that fought the Marseillais in 1778.

The crew of the Avenger

Also known as 356 sailors

The 356 sailors aboard the French ship Avenger who went down with it in 1794 rather than surrendering.

Admiral Chateau-Renaud

Also known as Chateau-Renaud

French admiral who escorted the Spanish treasure convoy in 1702. He took the galleons into Vigo Bay and scuttled them when the English fleet arrived.

La Perouse

Also known as Commander La Perouse · La Pérouse

A French naval commander sent by Louis XVI on a voyage of circumnavigation in 1785. His ships, the Boussole and Astrolabe, wrecked at Vanikoro; the passage also recalls him among the events of Aronnax’s voyage.

Captain Farragut

Also known as Commander Farragut

Commander of the Abraham Lincoln, a determined seaman who led the expedition to pursue the mysterious creature. Aronnax recalls that Farragut may have recognized the supposed narwhal as a submarine vessel.

Edgar Allan Poe

Also known as Edgar Poe

The writer whose imagined polar regions Aronnax recalls while the Nautilus travels through northern seas.

Gordon Pym

Also known as fabulous Gordon Pym

A fictional adventurer by Edgar Poe, whose polar journey Aronnax recalls during the Nautilus’s northward voyage.

Ecclesiastes

The biblical book quoted by Aronnax for its question about whether anyone can fathom what is far off and exceedingly deep.

Fisherman of the Loffoden Isles

Also known as the fisherman

An unnamed fisherman whose hut shelters Aronnax after he regains consciousness on the Loffoden Isles.

Natives of Papua

Also known as the Papuans · the savages

The island’s local people, who approach the Nautilus in growing numbers and attack it with stones and arrows from shore and canoes. Captain Nemo’s electrified barrier drives them away without killing them.

Two Nautilus crewmen

Also known as two of his men

Two unnamed crewmen who accompany Captain Nemo and Aronnax by boat to the South Pole for observations.

Nautilus lieutenant

Also known as the lieutenant

An unnamed lieutenant aboard the Nautilus who plots the ship’s course. He accompanies Captain Nemo during the fight against the poulps and helps defend the submarine.

Nautilus crewmen digging through the ice

Also known as the crew of the Nautilus · the men · the workers

Unnamed crewmen who work in shifts with pickaxes to cut through the ice trapping the Nautilus. They share their breathing apparatuses and air with one another as the vessel’s supply runs dangerously low.

Unidentified crewman killed by a poulp

Also known as the unhappy man · the unfortunate man · the poor Frenchman · Aronnax’s fellow-countryman

An unnamed French crewman aboard the Nautilus, whose desperate cry in French reveals him as Aronnax’s fellow-countryman. A poulp seizes and carries him away during the attack; Captain Nemo mourns him.

Poulps attacking the Nautilus

Also known as cuttlefish · the monsters · the cuttlefish

Large, predatory cephalopods that surround the Nautilus and obstruct its screw. They attack the crew when the submarine surfaces; one carries off a crewman, while Captain Nemo, his lieutenant, Ned Land, Aronnax, Conseil, and the crew fight them off.

Creator of all things

A divine figure whom Aronnax credits with giving poulps their vitality and powers.

Aristotle

Ancient philosopher whose stated dimensions for cuttlefish are cited by Aronnax.

Olaus Magnus

A writer cited for a story about an enormous octopus said to be a mile long.

Bishop of Nidros

Also known as the Bishop

A bishop in a legend cited by Aronnax, who builds an altar on what proves to be a giant poulp.

Bishop Pontoppidan

Also known as Pontoppidan

A writer cited for a story about a poulp large enough to serve as a place for a regiment of cavalry to manoeuvre.

Captain Paul Bos

Also known as Paul Bos

A captain from Havre and Aronnax’s friend, who has repeatedly said that he encountered a gigantic poulp in the Indian seas.

Captain Bouguer

Also known as Bouguer

Captain of the despatch-boat Alector, who attacked a large cuttlefish near Teneriffe in 1861. The animal escaped after its tail was severed, and its tale inspires the proposed name “Bouguer’s cuttlefish.”

The author of The Toilers of the Deep

An unnamed poet, whom Aronnax says would have had the skill to describe the poulps’ attack more powerfully.

Toussenel

A writer whose claims about marine animals and the spread of yellow fever are cited by Aronnax.

Nemo's strong companion

Also known as Captain Nemo's companion · the sailor of the Nautilus · a sort of Hercules · the strong man

An unnamed, exceptionally strong crewman who accompanies Captain Nemo on an early submarine walk and performs other arduous tasks aboard the Nautilus.

Nemo's second

Also known as the second

Captain Nemo’s unnamed second-in-command, who scans the horizon from the Nautilus’s platform and gives orders in an unknown language.

Nautilus pilot

Also known as the pilot · the man at the wheel

An unnamed, strong man who steers the Nautilus from the pilot’s cage. Captain Nemo joins him there to direct the Nautilus during its attack on the cachalots.

Nautilus coal miners

Also known as Nemo's men in the mines · the crew working in the mines

Unnamed Nautilus crewmen who mine coal in the submerged forests beneath the volcanic lagoon, supplying material for the sodium used to generate electricity.

Origens

Also known as Origen

A figure whose denial of Atlantis is cited by Aronnax.

Humbolt

Also known as Humboldt

A figure whose denial of Atlantis is cited by Aronnax.

Maury

Also known as the learned Maury · the ingenious American

An American scholar whose theories about ocean currents and Antarctic land are discussed by Aronnax; the observed land near the South Pole appears to support his Antarctic theory.

Captain Denham

Also known as Denham

Captain of the Herald, reported to have sounded the ocean in the South Atlantic without finding its bottom.

Lieutenant Parker

Also known as Parker

An officer of the American frigate Congress, reported to have sounded the ocean without reaching the bottom.

Fredol

Also known as Fredol's

A writer whose description of the cachalot is cited by Aronnax.

James Ross

Also known as Ross

An explorer who found the active Antarctic craters Erebus and Terror and reported coral in the Antarctic seas.

Old Proteus

Also known as Proteus

A mythological shepherd of Neptune’s flocks, whom Aronnax recalls while observing the seals and morses.

Neptune

The sea god invoked by Aronnax when comparing the Antarctic sea mammals to a flock watched by the mythological Proteus.

Southern whales

Also known as southern whale · whales

A troop of southern whales encountered by the Nautilus in Antarctic waters. Cachalots attack them, and Captain Nemo intervenes; one dead whale is found with its calf still attached.

Cachalots

Also known as macrocephalous cachalots

A troop of large, predatory whales that attack the southern whales. Captain Nemo drives the Nautilus through them, killing many.

Bees in the volcanic refuge

Also known as the bees

Bees nesting in a dragon-tree inside the extinct volcano. Ned Land smokes them out and gathers their honey.

Bird wounded by Ned Land

Also known as the magnificent bird

An unnamed bird in the volcanic refuge that Ned Land wounds with a thrown stone and carries away.

Antarctic ruffs

Also known as ruffs

Birds nesting in large numbers on the South Pole island; Captain Nemo has hundreds hunted for food.

Nautilus crewmen mining sodium

Also known as the ship's crew

Unnamed crewmen who load the Nautilus with sodium from its reserve at the volcanic refuge.

Antarctic seals

Also known as seals

Numerous kinds of seals inhabiting the South Pole shore, where they rest, swim, and tend their young. They show little fear of the visitors, having had no contact with people.

Sea-elephants

Also known as sea-elephant

Large seals with short, flexible trunks observed among the Antarctic seals.

Morses

Also known as morses

Large sea mammals gathered in numbers on the Antarctic shore. Aronnax and Conseil hear them bellowing and see them playing on the rocks.

Penguins

Also known as penguins

Numerous Antarctic birds that move awkwardly on land and gather noisily on the South Pole island.

Albatrosses

Also known as albatrosses

Large Antarctic seabirds seen flying over the South Pole island and during the snowstorm.

Petrels

Also known as petrels

Antarctic seabirds seen over the South Pole island and heard during the snowstorm.

Damiers

Also known as damiers

Small duck-like birds observed on the South Pole island.

Rays

Also known as giant rays

Large rays encountered in the Atlantic; some are about five yards long and can leap above the waves.

Sharks

Several kinds of sharks encountered in the Atlantic, including a nearly transparent specimen about fifteen feet long.

Sea-dragon

Also known as sea-dragons

A brightly coloured bony fish with spines along its back, noted by Conseil as known since Aristotle’s time.

Birds of prey in the volcanic refuge

Also known as sparrow hawks · kestrels

Birds of prey that nest and fly in the interior of the extinct volcano.

Bustards

Also known as bustards

Large birds that run along the slopes of the volcanic refuge; Ned Land wounds one with a stone.

Indian pearl diver

Also known as the Indian fisherman · the fisherman · the unfortunate diver · the poor Cingalese

An unnamed Indian diver at the Ceylon pearl banks who gathers oysters from the sea floor. A shark attacks him, but Captain Nemo and Ned Land save him; Nemo gives him a bag of pearls.

Nautilus second officer

Also known as the second officer

An unnamed officer who takes the sun’s altitude aboard the Nautilus on 24 January 1868 and appears not to understand French.

Nautilus steersman

Also known as the steersman

An unnamed crew member who steers the Nautilus from its glass cage.

Five Nautilus boat crewmen

Also known as five sailors from the Nautilus · the master and his four companions

Unnamed Nautilus sailors who row Captain Nemo, Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land to the Ceylon pearl banks. One steers the boat and four row.

Nemo's cook

Also known as the cook

An unnamed cook aboard the Nautilus, praised by Captain Nemo for skillfully preparing food from the sea.

Nemo's steward

Also known as the steward

An unnamed, silent steward aboard the Nautilus who brings food and clothes to Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land. He wakes Aronnax before the Ceylon pearl-bank excursion.

Second lieutenant of the Nautilus

Also known as the second lieutenant

An unnamed officer aboard the Nautilus who recites a daily phrase on the platform.

Four Nautilus divers at Vigo Bay

Also known as four men of the crew

Unnamed crewmen in diving suits who recover gold, silver, coins, and jewels from the wrecks in Vigo Bay.

Nicholas of Cape Matapan

Also known as Pesca · Nicholas · the diver

A bold Greek diver, known throughout the Cyclades, who swims between the islands and as far as Crete. Captain Nemo recognizes him when he appears beside the Nautilus.

Vasco da Gama

An explorer credited with discovering the island of Kiltan in 1499.

Moses

The biblical leader said to have led the Israelites across the Red Sea; Captain Nemo discusses the crossing and the location where Pharaoh’s army perished.

Pharaoh

The Egyptian ruler whose army, according to Captain Nemo, perished while pursuing Moses and the Israelites across the Red Sea.

Sesostris

An ancient Egyptian ruler whom tradition credits with beginning a canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea.

Necos

An Egyptian ruler who undertook work on a canal from the Nile towards the Red Sea in 615 BCE.

Darius, son of Hystaspes

Also known as Darius

A Persian ruler who continued the canal works begun by Necos.

Ptolemy II

A ruler who probably completed the ancient canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea.

Strabo

An ancient geographer who saw the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea in use.

Antonius

A Roman-era ruler whose time is given as the period when the ancient canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea was abandoned.

Caliph Omar

Also known as Omar

A caliph who ordered the restoration of the ancient canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea.

Caliph Al-Mansor

Also known as Al-Mansor

A caliph who ordered the canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea destroyed in 761 or 762 to prevent supplies reaching a rebel.

Mohammed-ben-Abdallah

A rebel against Caliph Al-Mansor whose forces were the intended recipients of provisions the caliph sought to block.

General Bonaparte

Also known as Bonaparte

The French general who discovered traces of the ancient canal works in the Desert of Suez during the expedition into Egypt and nearly drowned in the tide.

M. Lesseps

Also known as Lesseps

The French engineer who built the Suez Canal. Captain Nemo praises his will and achievement.

Louis XIV

King of France who placed his grandson, the Duke of Anjou, on the Spanish throne.

Philip V

Also known as the Duke of Anjou

King of Spain and grandson of Louis XIV, whose claim was challenged by a European coalition in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Charles III

Also known as the archduke

An archduke whom the alliance of Holland, Austria, and England prematurely proclaimed as a claimant to the Spanish crown.

Spanish commanders of the convoy

Unnamed commanders of the Spanish treasure convoy who insisted that the galleons be taken to a Spanish port, preferably Vigo Bay.

Merchants of Cadiz

A group of merchants who held the right to receive goods from the West Indies and persuaded Philip V to keep the treasure convoy at Vigo rather than unload it elsewhere.

English fleet commander at Vigo

Also known as commander of the English vessels

An unnamed English naval commander whose fleet arrived in Vigo Bay on 22 October 1702 and attacked the Spanish convoy.

Spanish treasure galleon crews

Also known as the sailors aboard the galleons

Unnamed crews aboard the Spanish galleons sunk in Vigo Bay during the battle of 1702.

Incas

Also known as the conquered of Ferdinand Cortez

The people whose treasures were taken by Spanish conquest; Aronnax understands Nemo’s recovered wealth to include metals torn from them.

Ferdinand Cortez

Also known as Cortez

The Spanish conqueror whose conquest is associated with treasure taken from the peoples of the Americas.

The Israelites

The people led by Moses across the Red Sea, as discussed by Nemo and Aronnax.

Arabs of the Red Sea coast

Also known as the Arabs

Ancient sailors described by Captain Nemo as navigating the Red Sea in primitive ships without reliable instruments.

Captain Nemo’s correspondent

Also known as Nemo’s correspondent

An unidentified recipient to whom Captain Nemo sends a chest of gold through the Nautilus’s pinnace. His identity and location are not revealed.

Spanish treasure recovery company

Also known as rival society

A company granted permission by the Spanish Government to search the Vigo Bay wrecks. Its shareholders expect a large return, unaware that Nemo has already taken much of the treasure.

Natives of Gilboa

Also known as the natives

Local people on Gilboa, first inferred from the birds’ wariness and local names and trade in wildlife. They later appear in large numbers, armed with bows, arrows, and slings, and attack the Nautilus and its visitors; Nemo frightens them away with an electrified barrier.

Papuan chief near the Nautilus

Also known as the mado

An unnamed Papuan chief who examines the Nautilus at close range. Aronnax thinks he may be a high-ranking mado because of his distinctive banana-leaf mat.

Unidentified dying Nautilus crewman

Also known as the wounded man · the dead man · the man who died in the night

An unnamed crewman about forty years old, wounded in the head by a fatal blow. Aronnax says he cannot be saved; Captain Nemo and the crew bury him in their underwater coral cemetery.

Dumont d'Urville

Also known as commander of the Astrolabe

A French naval commander who sailed to Vanikoro to investigate La Perouse’s fate and recovered wreckage from the reefs. Captain Nemo praises him as a great navigator and says he later died in a railway accident.

Charles Darwin

Also known as Darwin · Mr. Darwin

A naturalist whose theory of coral reef and atoll formation is discussed by Aronnax. He had visited Keeling Island with Captain Fitzroy.

Captain Fitzroy

Also known as Fitzroy

A captain who visited Keeling Island with Charles Darwin.

Cuvier

A naturalist whom Aronnax cites for comparing the argonaut’s shell to an elegant skiff.

Lacepede

Also known as Lacepède

A naturalist whose classification of fishes is cited in Conseil’s notes.

Arago

A person whose language is mentioned by Aronnax as one that the Nautilus's visitors evidently do not understand.

Faraday

A person whose language is mentioned by Aronnax as one that the Nautilus's visitors evidently do not understand.

Gratiolet

A scholar whose work is invoked as an example of how one might read a person's character from their face.

Engel

A scholar whose work is invoked as an example of how one might read a person's character from their face.

Milne Edwards

Also known as Aronnax's master

Aronnax's former teacher, credited with classifying madrepores.

Tavernier

A traveller who sold a famous pearl to the Shah of Persia for three million.

Shah of Persia

A ruler who bought a famous pearl from Tavernier.

Imaum of Muscat

A ruler who owns a famous pearl, which Aronnax had believed to be unrivalled.

Captain Crespo

The captain who recognized the island of Crespo in 1801.

Orpheus

A mythic musician invoked by Captain Nemo when describing the musicians represented in his collection.

Captain Baker

Captain of the steamer Governor Higginson, which first encountered the mysterious creature.

Commodore Fitz-James

A naval officer whose staff surveyed the mysterious creature aboard the Lord Clyde.

Pliny

Ancient writer whose accounts are cited as admitting the existence of sea monsters.

Paul Heggede

A writer whose accounts of sea monsters are cited in the public debate.

Mr. Harrington

A man whose good faith is said to be beyond suspicion; he reported seeing an enormous serpent aboard the Castillan in 1857.

Linnæus

Naturalist whose remark that nature did not make fools is quoted by opponents of the monster's existence.

Abbé Moigno

Editor associated with the Cosmos, a publication that discussed the monster controversy.

Hippolytus

A figure invoked in a comparison describing a satirical article that supposedly delivered the monster's death-blow.

J. B. Hobson

Also known as J.B. Hobson

Secretary of Marine for the United States, who invites Aronnax to join the Abraham Lincoln expedition.

Moby Dick

Also known as the white whale

A legendary white whale cited as an example of the enormous sea creatures imagined in stories and public caricatures.

Dieudonné de Gozon

A knight invoked in comparison with Captain Farragut, said to have gone to confront the serpent that ravaged an island.

Captain of the Monroe

An unnamed American whaling captain who asks Ned Land to help pursue a whale; Land harpoons two.

Old gunner

Also known as grey-bearded gunner

An unnamed, grey-bearded gunner aboard the Abraham Lincoln who fires at the mysterious creature and hits it.

Engineer of the Abraham Lincoln

Also known as the engineer

An unnamed engineer aboard the Abraham Lincoln who responds to the commander's orders about the ship's steam and engines.

Second lieutenant of the Abraham Lincoln

An unnamed officer who loads the blunderbusses and duck-guns before the crew prepares to fight the creature.

Man at the wheel

An unnamed crew member at the Abraham Lincoln's wheel who reports the frigate's speed during the chase.

Unidentified crewman

Also known as the man who appeared from the submarine

An unnamed man who appears briefly through a panel in the submarine and then disappears inside.

James Cook

Also known as Cook

A British explorer and captain whose death in Hawaii and shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef are mentioned; the Nautilus passes the reef and Hawaii.

Jean Macé

Also known as Jean Mace

The author of The Slaves of the Stomach, which Aronnax is reading aboard the Nautilus.

Five people aboard the Florida

Also known as the four sailors and the woman with an infant

Five unnamed people found dead, bound on the wreck of the Florida: four sailors, including the steersman, and a young woman holding her infant.

Infant aboard the Florida

Also known as the infant

An unnamed infant held above the water by its mother among the dead aboard the wreck of the Florida.

Captain Bell

Captain of the Minerva, who discovered Clermont-Tonnere in 1822.

Quiros

An explorer who discovered the New Hebrides in 1606.

Bougainville

An explorer who explored the New Hebrides in 1768.

Captain de Langle

La Perouse's second-in-command on the expedition aboard the Boussole and Astrolabe, both of which were lost at Vanikoro.

Louis XVI

King of France who sent La Perouse on his 1785 expedition and annotated the expedition's instructions in his own hand.

Bruni d'Entrecasteaux

Also known as D’Entrecasteaux

Commander of the Recherche and Esperance, sent in 1791 to search for La Perouse. His expedition passed Vanikoro without stopping, and he died during the voyage.

Bowen

Commander of the Albemarle, who reported seeing shipwreck debris on the coasts of New Georgia.

Captain Hunter

A captain whose report identified the Admiralty Islands as the place where La Perouse was wrecked.

Captain Dillon

A veteran Pacific sailor who first found convincing evidence of La Perouse's wrecks at Vanikoro and returned to investigate in 1827.

Lascar at Tikopia

Also known as the Lascar

An unnamed Lascar who told Captain Dillon that he had seen two Europeans from wrecked vessels at Vanikoro and sold him a sword handle.

Charles X

King of France who warmly welcomed Captain Dillon on his return.

James Hobbs

Second lieutenant of the Union of Calcutta, who reported seeing iron bars and red cloth used by local people on an island.

M. Jacquireot

An officer whom the people of Vanikoro guided to the wreck site after receiving presents.

Legoarant de Tromelin

Commander of the Bayonnaise, sent by the French Government to Vanikoro after Dumont d'Urville's expedition.

Unnamed deserter and interpreter

Also known as the deserter

An unnamed deserter found on Tikopia who served as guide and interpreter for Dumont d'Urville's expedition to Vanikoro.

Natives of Vanikoro

Also known as the savages of Vanikoro

Local people who initially withheld information from Dumont d'Urville's expedition, then guided Jacquireot to the wreck site; some survivors of La Perouse's wrecks had earlier stayed on the island.

Natives of Louisiade and New Caledonia

Also known as the savages of Louisiade and New Caledonia

People who were reported to have possessed medals and a cross of St. Louis from La Perouse's expedition.