# Typee — Character guide

> Key figures in Typee by Herman Melville.

- [Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/narrator.md): He narrates his own flight from the whaler Dolly into the Typee valley, where curiosity and dread pull against each other in nearly every observation he makes. He is by turns an eager ethnographer, a queasy guest, and a 
- [Toby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/toby.md): Toby is the one man aboard the Dolly the narrator would choose to share danger with, and the two seal their pact with a wedding of palms before slipping ashore. Where the narrator is feverish and speculative, Toby is pra
- [Mehevi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/mehevi.md): Mehevi presides over the Ti with an easy, almost fraternal authority, romping with pretty witches between bouts of chiefly dignity. He is generous to his guest and clearly fond of him, yet his hospitality has edges — the
- [Fayaway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/fayaway.md): Fayaway moves through the valley with a lightness that the narrator, hemmed in by his own fears, can never quite match. Their bond — the lake he christens for her, the small daily intimacies — softens the story's mountin
- [Marheyo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/marheyo.md): Marheyo shares his home with the narrator and, in his undemanding way, becomes one of the few figures in the valley who asks nothing of him. He is old, unhurried, and largely content to let the younger men and the chiefs
- [Marnoo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/marnoo.md): Marnoo arrives in the valley as a kind of living exception — a man who belongs everywhere and nowhere, shielded by taboo from the wars that divide the islands. He is admired by the Typees, at ease among strangers, and ut
- [Kory-Kory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/kory_kory.md): Kory-Kory attaches himself to the ailing narrator with a loyalty so total it becomes both comfort and captivity, tending him through a mysterious illness that will not lift. His devotion is physical and constant — he bea
- [Herman Melville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/herman_melville.md): The author, referenced in the introduction and framing material.
- [Karakoee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/karakoee.md): A native who helps negotiate the narrator's release.
- [Tinor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/tinor.md): Marheyo's wife and the matron of the household.
- [Kolory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/kolory.md): A Typee warrior and companion to the narrator.
- [Mow-Mow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/mow_mow.md): A hostile Typee warrior who threatens the narrator's escape.
- [Mowanna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/mowanna.md): The king of Nukuheva, a rival to the Typee.
- [Captain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/captain.md): The captain of the whaling ship Dolly.
- [Jack Lewis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/jack_lewis.md): A sailor on the Dolly who warns the narrator about the captain.
- [Narmonee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/narmonee.md): A Typee man known for his intelligence and wit.
- [Karky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/karky.md): The Typee tattoo artist.
- [Moa Artua](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/moa_artua.md): A young Typee chief or priest.
- [Pueearka Kanaka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/pueearka_kanaka.md): A native from another island who assists the narrator.
- [Fitz-James O'Brien](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/fitz_james_obrien.md): A friend of Melville mentioned in the introduction.
- [Allan Melville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/allan_melville.md): Herman Melville's brother, mentioned in correspondence.
- [John Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/john_murray.md): Melville's publisher in London.
- [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/nathaniel_hawthorne.md): Author and friend of Melville, referenced in the introduction.
- [Rear Admiral Du Petit Thouars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/typee_se/characters/rear_admiral_du_petit_thouars.md): French naval commander who took possession of the Marquesas.

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