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Benjamin Komoetie

This character is left with a Black family and raised as their own. He is thought to be a white child from the forest, and he is sent to live with a forest family when he is about 12.

Fiela Komoetie

This character is a Black woman who owns her own land in the Long Kloof, where she lives with her husband and children and an adopted white child. She is hardworking and has her children educated.

Selling Komoetie

This character lives with his wife and children in the Long Kloof. He has poor health from working as a convict on the mountain road.

Elias van Rooyen

This character lives in the forest on Barnard’s Island with his wife and children. One of his sons disappears when he is three.

Barta van Rooyen

This character lives in the forest on Barnard’s Island with her husband and...

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