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1. What is Franklin's advantage in a chase with Surprise and why does it seem Franklin cannot shake the Surprise?

Franklin, smaller and lighter armed, runs and attempts numerous methods of escape. Surprise's canny and experienced commander, Captain Jack Aubrey, predicts the Franklin's movements with seeming omniscience. For days the chase ensues, occasional gunfire being exchanged when range permits.

2. What is Maturin's relationship to Aubrey and what is his mission?

Captain Aubrey's personal friend and the ship's surgeon, Stephen Maturin, is aboard and anxious to travel to Peru. Maturin is an intelligence agent for the British Crown and has a mission to perform in Peru--to stir up anti-Spanish feeling and hopefully to help bring about a revolution for local independence.

3. What is Maturin's personal reason for going to Peru?

Maturin greatly desires to lay in a private and considerable stock of coca leaves, a drug to which he is much attached.

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