# Agnew — A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder character guide

> Agnew in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0001-ii-adrift-in-the-antarctic-ocean

## Who they are

One of the yachting party gathered around the opened cylinder, weighing the doctor's evidence about barnacle layers and lost papyrus craft against Melick's literary conspiracy.

## In the story

### [II: Adrift in the Antarctic Ocean](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_strange_manuscript_found_in_a_copper_cylinder_se/chapters/ii-adrift-in-the-antarctic-ocean)

Second mate who accompanies Adam ashore; argues optimistically that the current runs north, providing a counterpoint to Adam's despair.

### [III: A World of Fire and Desolation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_strange_manuscript_found_in_a_copper_cylinder_se/chapters/iii-a-world-of-fire-and-desolation)

Maintains hope despite the desolation, leads the burial of the sailor, and reflects on immortality.

### [IV: The Sight of Human Beings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_strange_manuscript_found_in_a_copper_cylinder_se/chapters/iv-the-sight-of-human-beings)

Trusts the natives, is lured away, and is killed despite fighting back with his gun and pistol.

### [V: The Torrent Sweeping Under the Mountains](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_strange_manuscript_found_in_a_copper_cylinder_se/chapters/v-the-torrent-sweeping-under-the-mountains)

Mentioned as having been killed by natives, his fate prepares the narrator for his own.

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