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Wild Indians

The plateau's wary native tribe, whose village shelters a dying albino stranger and whose sketches become the expedition's first proof of something impossible.

supporting

Also known as The Indians, Indians, the Indians, The wretched Indians

First appearance: xii it was dreadful in the forest

As a supporting figure in The Lost World, Wild Indians is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Prisoners of the ape-men; several are thrown off the cliff; the survivors are later described as 'little red fellows' who are bitten and clawed.
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These Indians inhabit the remote village where the exhausted, flaxen-haired Maple White is taken in as a complete stranger, and they figure in his sketchbook as subjects of careful study. They are neither purely hostile…

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ZAZamboPGProfessor G. E…LJLord John RoxtonWEWeissmannJCJimmy ColverWIWild Indians

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  • Other

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  • Expedition members and associates
  • Supporting and background figures
  • Protagonist

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