List four things you learn about the location the story is set in?

• Island of Corsica

• "the old, wheezy steamer which makes the trip to Ajaccio" (steamship service began around 1833)

• Bonifacio main setting (village located on the Southern tip of Corsica), where the houses "look like the nests of wild birds, clinging to this peak, overlooking this terrible passage, where vessels rarely venture. The wind, which blows uninterruptedly, has swept bare the forbidding coast; it drives through the narrow straits and lays waste both sides. The pale streaks of foam, clinging to the black rocks, whose countless peaks rise up out of the water, look like bits of rag floating and drifting on the surface of the sea."

• Longosardo (a place that harbors criminals)