The Lost World · Character

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.

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

First appearance: xii it was dreadful in the forest

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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 nor welcoming, a guarded presence whose knowledge of the land the explorers must navigate. Their world provides the first tangible evidence, in White's drawings of long-snouted saurians, that the blank spaces on the map still hide something worth the journey.

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A Sight Which I Shall Never Forget
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.
XIV: Those Were the Real Conquests
The Accala tribe; small, wiry, well-built men with lank black hair; show deep respect for their young chief; form a rescue party and prepare for war against the ape-men.
Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders
Allies after the battle; provide caves and a map; the young chief secretly helps the expedition.

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