# Taminah — Almayer’s Folly character guide

> Taminah in Almayer’s Folly by Joseph Conrad.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Reshid Taminah

**First appearance:** 0006-iii

## Snapshot

Bulangi's slave girl, who sells cakes through Sambir while carrying a secret love and a heavier knowledge than anyone suspects.

## Who they are

Taminah walks the settlement with a tray balanced on her head, invisible to the men who buy from her and useful to those like Reshid and Abdulla who want eyes in Almayer's campong. Beneath her practiced indifference she hoards a private grief and a dangerous piece of knowledge about Dain, gathered in the dark outside Bulangi's house. Her silence and her suffering make her one of the novel's quietest and most consequential witnesses.

## Relationships

### [Babalatchi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/almayer_s_folly_se/characters/babalatchi)

_psychological_

Babalatchi manipulates Taminah, using her unrequited love for Dain to extract information and control her.

### [Babalatchi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/almayer_s_folly_se/characters/babalatchi)

_psychological_

Babalatchi manipulates Taminah, using her unrequited love for Dain to extract information and control her.

### [Babalatchi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/almayer_s_folly_se/characters/babalatchi)

_psychological_

Babalatchi manipulates Taminah, using her unrequited love for Dain to extract information and control her.

## In the story

### [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/almayer_s_folly_se/chapters/viii)

A slave girl who overhears Dain's danger and resolves to warn him, hoping to win his love and escape with him.

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