Captain Hook by halitosis, beady black eyes, a pock-marked face, and perpetual filth of his person and surroundings, contrasting strongly with J. M. Barrie's Etonian gentleman. The novel, which takes place before the Captain meets Peter Pan, calls Hook "Black Stache" for his prominent moustache, and his ship is called the "Sea Devil"; he captures the "Jolly Roger", originally a British ship called the "Wasp", later. Black Stache is renamed 'Captain Hook' in the second instalment, "Peter and the Shadow Thieves". In Barry and Pearson's book, his left hand is accidentally cut off by Peter. In Rick Ellis' theatrical adaptation of the
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens When Peter is not playing, he likes to make graves for the children who get lost at night, burying them with little headstones in the Gardens. Most of the text of "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" was included as chapters 13–18 of Barrie's earlier novel "The Little White Bird", published in 1902, with minor differences appearing on only nine pages of the separately published 1906 novel. "The Little White Bird" was published as a novel for adult readers; whereas "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" was published specifically as a children's book. Scholar Jacqueline Rose perceives, however, that the book is