Main Characters
The 36 inhabitants of Gallia include a German Jew, an Italian, three Frenchmen, eight Russians, 10 Spaniards, and 13 British soldiers. The main characters are:
- Captain Hector Servadac of the French Algerian army
- Laurent Ben Zoof, Servadac's aid
- Count Wassili Timascheff of Russia
- Lt. Procope, the commander of Timascheff's yacht, Dobrina
- Isaac Hakkabut, a German trader
- Nina
- Pablo
- Colonel Heneage Finch Murphy and Major Sir John Temple Oliphant of Britain's Gibraltar garrison. In the French original Murphy is actually a Brigadier (General), a rank too high to be the butt of Verne's joking description as playing an interminable game of chess without a pawn being taken. The translator accordingly demoted him to the rank of Colonel, a rank less likely to cause offense.
- Palmyrin Rosette, the French discoverer of the comet and previously Servadac's teacher.
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