List of Characters
(in order of importance)
| Will Abbey | A young English sailor |
| Hatatai | A young native Tahitian girl |
| Anita Considine | A young English-Tahitian girl |
| Edward Considine | An English trader in the South Seas |
| George Clowes | An English vanilla grower |
| Aro | A Tahitian aristocrat |
| Tatai | Hatatai's father |
| Metua | Hatatai's mother |
| Otai | Aro's henchman |
| Tahitian shopkeepers and customers, sailors, choir, wives of Clowes, Aro's followers, French troops, customers in tavern. | |