# The Fur Country — Character guide

> Key figures in The Fur Country by Jules Verne.

- [Lieutenant Jaspar Hobson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/jaspar_hobson.md): Hobson is the expedition's commander, a Company child whose self-control was forged young and whose courage is quiet rather than showy. He carries the weight of every decision, weighing ambition against the lives of the 
- [Mrs. Paulina Barnett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/paulina_barnett.md): Mrs. Barnett is the life of Fort Hope, combining a woman's grace with a man's energy, and the soldiers would gladly die for her. She refuses to be sheltered, sharing every hardship and drawing out the most reticent with 
- [Sergeant Long](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/sergeant_long.md): Long is Hobson's right hand, constitutionally brave and born to obey rather than command, hard on his men only as he is hard on himself. When the colony needs someone to crawl through the snow to the fuel shed, he insist
- [Kalumah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/kalumah.md): Kalumah is the link between Fort Hope and the native peoples of the far north, remembered for her attachment to Mrs. Barnett. When she sets out to revisit her friends, she finds Cape Bathurst gone and the coast itself va
- [Thomas Black](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/thomas_black.md): Black is a sagacious observer with inexhaustible patience, a specialist in luminous meteors who exists only for astronomy and can talk of nothing but stars. He endures a winter journey across Company territory purely to 
- [Madge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/madge.md): Madge is Mrs. Barnett's constant companion, faithful and unassuming, present at every bedside and crisis without ever seeking the spotlight. When a half-frozen stranger is carried in, it is Madge who feels the vital heat
- [Mac-Nab](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/mac_nab.md): Mac-Nab belongs to the working spine of Lieutenant Hobson's party, the man who wedges shut the narrow slit through which the unwelcome visitors are watched and who speaks of holding a council of war. His craft matters mo
- [Corporal Joliffe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/corporal_joliffe.md): Joliffe is the social lubricant of Fort Reliance: when the captain is asked about the fête, his answer is simply 'Ask Joliffe,' and Joliffe has a gracious word for everybody. Yet his superstitious streak and loose tongue
- [Mrs. Joliffe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/mrs_joliffe.md): Mrs. Joliffe moves through the fort's social life as one half of the Joliffe pair, named alongside her husband among those destined for terrible experiences. Her anxious, talkative temperament makes her a barometer for t
- [Captain Craventy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/captain_craventy.md): Commanding officer at Fort Reliance who dispatches the expedition.
- [Captain Kellet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/kellet.md): A naval officer mentioned in the narrative.
- [Norman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/norman.md): An old servant at Fort Reliance.
- [Sergeant Felton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/felton.md): A sergeant in the expedition party.
- [Michael Hope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/michael_hope.md): A young boy, son of Mac-Nab.
- [The Eskimo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/the_eskimo.md): A generic Eskimo character encountered during the journey.
- [The Stranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fur_country_se/characters/the_stranger.md): A mysterious figure who appears late in the story.

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