Posted by Mike Field on October 27, 2012 at 15:58:00 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Crab Island's and Gibber's real-life prototypes posted by Mike Field on October 27, 2012 at 14:59:55:
... further to this -- the monkey starts off by being referred to as Gibber, then flits back and forth a bit between that and Jacko. He was Gibber to start because at the start it was the children speaking in the 'present', and needing to incorporate the then-existing Gibber into their story. Then Captain Flint slips a bit and refers to the monkey aboard the (story) schooner Wild Cat as Jacko. It doesn't seem to settle permanently into 'Gibber' until 'Peter Duck' itself was written.
By the way, Christina initially refers inadvertently and incorrectly to Knight's book in which Jacko appears as 'The Cruise of the Falcon' (which was indeed another book written by Knight, but in which Jacko doesn't feature,) later correcting herself to refer to it as 'The Cruise of the Alerte'.
Both books (along with his 'The Falcon in the Baltic") are well worth reading.