# Christian Cruise — The Cruise of the Alerte character guide

> Christian Cruise in The Cruise of the Alerte by E. F. Knight.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Cruise

**First appearance:** 0000-i-the-history-of-the-treasure

## Snapshot

One of the hand-picked volunteers who assists with the Southampton fitting-out and then ships aboard the Alerte for the voyage.

## Who they are

Cruise is part of the pool of applicants from whom the narrator gradually assembles his company, some of whom prove useful in readying the yacht before departure. He embodies the ordinary, willing manpower that a scheme like this depends on: extra bunks built, water-tanks lashed, sails bent. His stake in the story is the shared gamble of men who leave comfortable shores for a map, a rumor, and a long chance at Lima's golden candlesticks.

## In the story

### [IV: A Romance of the Salvages](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cruise_of_the_alerte_se/chapters/iv-a-romance-of-the-salvages)

Foreign seaman who provided information about a treasure hidden on the Salvages, claiming a dying Spaniard told him the story.

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