# The Special Correspondent — Character guide

> Key figures in The Special Correspondent by Jules Verne.

- [Kinko](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/kinko.md): Kinko travels hidden aboard the Grand Transasiatic, enduring hunger and discomfort for the sake of Zinca Klork, the young Romanian woman waiting for him in Peking. When bandits threaten the train's imperial treasure, his
- [Faruskiar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/faruskiar.md): Faruskiar mingles with the passengers as a cultured gentleman, sharing vivid anecdotes of Kachgaria's ferocious warlords and inviting Claudius Bombarnac to visit his yamen in Peking. His knowledge of the country is intim
- [Popof](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/popof.md): Popof oversees the passengers and the mysterious sealed van with professional discretion, answering Bombarnac's questions only as far as duty allows. He knows more than he says about the van's contents and the dangers al
- [Major Noltitz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/major_noltitz.md): Major Noltitz has served in the region and speaks of the Chinese with the authority of firsthand experience, warning Bombarnac that the bandit Ki-Tsang is no mere paragraph-fodder. He balances the journalist's hunger for
- [Madame Caterna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/madame_caterna.md): Caroline Caterna and her husband have played every provincial stage from La Ferté-sous-Jouarre to Buenos Aires, and she matches his comic energy line for line. When Kinko's arrest leaves Zinca Klork distraught, it is Mad
- [Pan-Chao](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/pan_chao.md): Pan-Chao answers Major Noltitz's questions about the dead mandarin and the sealed van with the courtesy of a well-bred traveler, though he knows nothing of the treasure hidden aboard. When Kinko faces a pitiless magistra
- [Fulk Ephrinell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/fulk_ephrinell.md): Ephrinell approaches Claudius Bombarnac on the gangway with the solemn air of a man closing a deal, only to ask him to witness his wedding to Miss Horatia Bluett. He is a Yankee who cannot wait: rather than marry in Peki
- [Claudius Bombarnac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/claudius_bombarnac.md): Bombarnac arrives in Tiflis expecting a leisurely tour of the Georgian provinces, only to find orders sending him at once to Uzun Ada and the Grand Transasiatic. His notebook bulges with ethnographic detail, and his prof
- [Zinca Klork](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/zinca_klork.md): Zinca Klork lives modestly on the first floor of a house off the Avenue Cha-Coua, plying the milliner's trade she learned in Paris. She and her Kinko are too poor to pay his fare, so she had him smuggled across Asia in a
- [Miss Horatia Bluett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/miss_horatia_bluett.md): Miss Bluett is the treasure Ephrinell boasts of: a woman thoroughly acquainted with business matters and holding a splendid commission, which in his eyes is the highest praise a fiancée can earn. Their match is a meeting
- [Baron Weissschnitzerdörfer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/baron_weissschnitzerdorfer.md): A baron with a lengthy name, likely a comic or minor noble.
- [Ki-Tsang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/ki_tsang.md): A renowned figure, possibly a scholar or official.
- [Sir Francis Trevellyan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/sir_francis_trevellyan.md): A baronet with a hall, appearing in the narrative.
- [Monsieur Caterna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/monsieur_caterna.md): Male counterpart to Madame Caterna, part of a couple.
- [Reverend Nathaniel Morse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/reverend_nathaniel_morse.md): A clergyman with a speaking role.
- [Ghangir](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/ghangir.md): A named individual, possibly a local or historical figure.
- [Caroline Caterna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/caroline_caterna.md): A female character, possibly related to the Caternas.
- [Tio-King](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/tio_king.md): A doctor with a notable name, likely a minor character.
- [General Annenkof](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_special_correspondent_se/characters/general_annenkof.md): A general mentioned in the narrative.

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