# Tarzan the Untamed — Character guide

> Key figures in Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Tarzan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/tarzan.md): Tarzan of the Apes is a jungle predator who reads scent spoor like a letter and mocks the Gomangani for sport, yet he keeps turning back for two stranded Tarmangani he swears he owes nothing. He calls himself a weak old 
- [Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/harold_percy_smith_oldwick.md): Smith-Oldwick begins as a bound prisoner in a Wamabo hut awaiting a cannibal feast, then becomes the man Tarzan stations at the north opening with a pistol and orders not to waste cartridges on lions. Wounded, mauled, an
- [Fräulein Bertha Kircher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/bertha_kircher.md): Bertha Kircher is a woman with a past she does not explain, seized by lion-handling captors and hauled toward a forest that smells wrong, too dry for the jungle she knows. When Smith-Oldwick tells her to go on without hi
- [Usanga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/usanga.md): Usanga is a deserter from the German command who takes Smith-Oldwick's plane and Bertha Kircher with it, leaving the bound Englishman in the meadow. Tarzan watches him fly and cannot guess how a man he counts a savage le
- [Numa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/numa.md): Numa has not eaten in two days, and hunger has stripped the roar from him, leaving only a silent, grim stalk through the game trails. Robbed of a deer by Sheeta the panther, he comes upon the scent of man and considers m
- [Zu-tag](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/zu_tag.md): Zu-tag belongs to the great apes Tarzan can speak to as kin, the Mangani among whom he is still, in some measure, at home. His allegiance sits uneasily between the ape-man he respects and a tribe that has no reason to sh
- [Sheeta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/sheeta.md): A leopard that is a recurring predator in Tarzan's jungle.
- [Hauptmann Fritz Schneider](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/fritz_schneider.md): Hauptmann Fritz Schneider belongs to the German colonial force that burned Tarzan's bungalow and slaughtered his Waziri tribe, and he becomes one of the officers the ape-man hunts through the war-torn jungle. His fate is
- [Otobu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/otobu.md): A native warrior who serves Usanga and later helps Tarzan.
- [Metak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/metak.md): Metak rules alongside Xanila over Xuja, a sealed city whose inhabitants are descended into hereditary madness, and he embodies its violent unpredictability. When Tarzan and his companions are taken inside the walls, Meta
- [Ska](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/ska.md): A vulture that scavenges and appears in the jungle scenes.
- [Colonel Capell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/colonel_capell.md): A British colonel involved in the war effort in Africa.
- [Go-lat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/go_lat.md): A great ape who is a follower of Zu-tag and aids Tarzan.
- [Bara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/bara.md): A deer-like animal in the jungle, often prey for predators.
- [Sabor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/sabor.md): A lioness that is a dangerous predator in Tarzan's world.
- [Manu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/manu.md): A monkey that interacts with Tarzan and the apes.
- [Xanila](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/xanila.md): Xanila shares rule of Xuja with Prince Metak, presiding over a sealed civilization whose people are consumed by inherited insanity. Her position places her at the center of the power struggles that engulf Tarzan and the 
- [Jane Clayton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/jane_clayton.md): Tarzan's wife, mentioned as missing or deceased early in the story.
- [General Jan Smuts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/characters/jan_smuts.md): A historical general mentioned in the war context.

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