# King Solomon’s Mines — Character guide

> Key figures in King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard.

- [Sir Henry Curtis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/sir_henry_curtis.md): Sir Henry Curtis is a gentleman of enormous physical strength and equally enormous loyalty, bankrolling the journey because his younger brother George rode off after the mines and never came back. Where Quatermain counts
- [Captain John Good](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/captain_good.md): Captain Good brings naval discipline, a sextant, and a monocle to a journey that has no business needing any of them, and his running jokes about "Unlimited Loo" keep the party's spirits afloat. His vanity about his appe
- [Allan Quatermain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/allan_quatermain.md): Quatermain has spent his life trading, hunting, and fighting in southern Africa, and he opens the book laid up in Durban with a lion-mauled leg and a pile of money he barely trusts. He agrees to lead Curtis and Good into
- [Ignosi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/ignosi.md): Umbopa attaches himself to the white men before they even cross the desert, and his quiet confidence and occasional cryptic remarks unsettle Quatermain from the start. He knows more about the mountains and the Kukuana pe
- [Twala](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/twala.md): Twala rules Kukuanaland through fear, staging mass executions and relying on the ancient witch-finder Gagool to keep the people cowed. He is the twin brother of the rightful king Imotu, whom he stabbed through the heart 
- [Gagool](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/gagool.md): Gagool is the Isanusi, the wise and terrible woman who does not die, and she is the one who plucked Twala from hiding and proclaimed him king when famine made the people desperate. She moves through the Kukuana court lik
- [Infadoos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/infadoos.md): Infadoos moves through Kukuanaland as a man who has survived many kings and knows exactly how much a promise is worth. When he warns the witch-finder Gagool that he will require the strangers' safety at her hands, he rev
- [Foulata](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/foulata.md): Foulata attaches herself to the white men's party with a loyalty that surprises even Good, refusing to be left behind when the descent into the caves begins. Her timid answer that wherever her lord goes she goes too sign
- [Scragga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/scragga.md): Twala's cruel and cowardly son who accompanies his father.
- [Khiva](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/khiva.md): A Zulu servant who sacrifices himself to save Captain Good.
- [Ventvögel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/ventvogel.md): A Hottentot tracker who guides the expedition through the desert.
- [Jim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/jim.md): Quatermain's loyal Zulu servant who accompanies the expedition.
- [George Curtis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/george_curtis.md): Sir Henry's lost younger brother who disappeared seeking the mines.
- [Neville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/neville.md): The alias used by George Curtis while traveling in Africa.
- [José da Silvestra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/king_solomon_s_mines_se/characters/jose_da_silvestra.md): A 16th-century Portuguese explorer who left a map to the mines.

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