# Captain Faucon — Two Years Before the Mast character guide

> Captain Faucon in Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr..

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Faucon

**First appearance:** 0010-viii

## Snapshot

Master of the Ayacucho, a shipmaster whose fairness and generosity offer Dana a rare glimpse of authority exercised without cruelty.

## Who they are

Captain Faucon commands the Ayacucho, one of the American vessels trading hides along the California coast, and his reputation for decency sets him apart from the Pilgrim's harsher regime. Where other captains rule by fear, Faucon earns loyalty through steady, humane treatment of his men, a contrast Dana returns to when weighing what shipboard power ought to be. His presence in the narrative gives the reader a measure for judging the abuses elsewhere — proof that the system need not produce tyrants.

## In the story

### [Southeaster and Passage Up the Coast](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/two_years_before_the_mast_se/chapters/x)

Brother of Captain Thompson, dressed in Spanish style, traveling with his wife.

### [XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/two_years_before_the_mast_se/chapters/xx)

Assumes command of the Pilgrim, wears a green jacket and high leather cap, and quotes Latin to the narrator.

### [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/two_years_before_the_mast_se/chapters/xxvii)

Captain of the Pilgrim, who waited for the ship in Monterey and later sailed for San Diego.

### [Twenty-Four Years After](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/two_years_before_the_mast_se/chapters/twenty-four-years-after)

Captain of the Alert; spoke highly of the crew and mourned French John's death.

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