# Batata — The Purple Land character guide

> Batata in The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0019-xviii-rest-on-thy-rock-andromeda

## Who they are

Character named after sweet potato, possibly a nickname.

## In the story

### [VII: Love of the Beautiful](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_land_se/chapters/vii-love-of-the-beautiful)

Margarita's father, a small, dark man with Charrua blood, sweet-tempered, who calls his daughter 'pretty girl' and is nicknamed 'Sweet Potato'.

### [IX: The Botanist and the Simple Native](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_land_se/chapters/ix-the-botanist-and-the-simple-native)

Host; presses Richard to stay for breakfast and offers a fresh horse to Marcos Marcó.

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