# The Rescue — Character guide

> Key figures in The Rescue by Joseph Conrad.

- [Mrs. Travers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/emma_travers.md): Mrs. Travers moves through the social world of the yacht as a woman whose 'detestable reputation of mental superiority' has left her admired by few and mistrusted by many. Her husband diagnoses her as 'imperfectly civili
- [Captain Lingard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/captain_lingard.md): Lingard commands the grounded Emma, an old hulk crammed with muskets, cloth, and brass guns — the arsenal and war-chest of his private intervention in native affairs. Carter finds him listless and ravaged, a man of indom
- [Mr. Travers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/mr_travers.md): Aboard the Emma, Mr. Travers lies in a cabin of austere comfort, recovering from an adventure he prefers to consider beneath his notice. He shams sleep, snaps at d'Alcacer, and dismisses his wife's decisions as having 'n
- [Carter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/carter.md): Left behind on the Shore of Refuge, Carter took charge of two ships, kept them fit to sail or fight, and now reports to a captain he barely recognizes. He watches Lingard's ravaged face with an intuitive delicacy, hiding
- [Jörgenson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/jorgenson.md): Jörgenson keeps the Emma running, produces wicker chairs and packs of cards from her depths, and moves through the crisis with a fatalism that unnerves even Lingard. His 'intolerable mistrust of the life of men' is no po
- [D'Alcacer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/d_al_cacer.md): D'Alcacer endures the stranded nights with piquet, irony, and a refusal to be fooled by Mr. Travers' shammed sleep. He rows Mrs. Travers out to the sandbank before dawn and names the stakes plainly: 'There is room for a 
- [Belarab](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/belarab.md): Belarab rules a fortified settlement where white traders, exiled princes, and sea-raiders all seek his favor, and his slow, dignified negotiations set the tempo of every crisis. He would rather mediate a ransom than shed
- [Hassim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/hassim.md): Hassim travels with his sister Immada in the train of the indecisive Belarab, a stranger and a poor man whose only wealth is the far-off tale of his lost country. Courtly and restrained by tradition, he burns inwardly wi
- [Immada](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/immada.md): Immada shares her brother's wandering fate, the only companion of his life and a child of the same mother, brave as a man yet a very woman in her fears. She dreads the negotiations that hang on Belarab's caprice and the 
- [Tengga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/tengga.md): Tengga stands as the counterweight to Belarab's authority, a rival whose purposes and hopes Belarab believes he can topple with one shrewd offer. His boats appearing out of the morning mist turn a quiet hall of negotiati
- [Daman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/daman.md): Daman moves among the Illanun chiefs with half-closed eyes and a sword always within reach, a man who believes there is blood between him and all mankind. He welcomes Hassim only to let Lingard know the prisoners are bey
- [Jaffir](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/jaffir.md): A loyal follower of Hassim, who carries messages and risks his life.
- [Shaw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/shaw.md): The chief mate of Lingard's brig, the Lightning.
- [Haji Wasub](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/haji_wasub.md): An old and trusted advisor to Belarab, often serving as an intermediary.
- [Sir John](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rescue_se/characters/sir_john.md): A British naval officer who appears in the later parts of the story.

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