Other Characters
4.1 Pawi-maliay-hapa: "Many Arrows," cousin and best friend of Ruiz.
4.2 Esteban Berenda: "One of the leather-jacketed soldiers who had come with Captain Portola on his first voyage of discovery." He is a Spanish settler who lives down the coast. He married an Esselen woman and has one son, Ruiz.
4.3 Amomuths: The most powerful local "doctor" or medicine man. He is Ruiz's great-uncle on his mother's side. He is usually conducting ceremonies in the ceremonial house, where he tells ancient tales. Amomoths comforts Esteban Berenda after Ruiz dies. In the final scenes of Fray Luis's death, Amomuths is the mysterious figure seated before him in the ceremonial house: "Then it began again, the bear sitting there against the north wall, then Amomuths, then the bear . . ."
4.4 Hualala: He is an Indian medicine man and husband of the Esselen girl.
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