Dufflepuds
Also known as Duffers, Monopods
A community of one-legged monopods who call themselves Duffers. Their comic misunderstandings and dispute with Coriakin bring the Dawn Treader to their island.
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In the chronicles
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader4 cited passages⌄
- Chapter XI · paragraph 12
"Well, of course I knew when I let the Duffers make themselves invisible that you would be coming along presently to take the spell off. I wasn't quite sure o…
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 18
"When will the spell work?" asked Lucy. "Will the Duffers be visible again at once?"
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 22
…" said Ramandu. "It was not quite as a rest that he was set to govern the Duffers. You might call it a punishment. He might have shone for thousands of years more in the southern winter sky if …
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 40
…is that I think chaps who set out like us will look as silly as--as those Dufflepuds--if we come home and say we got to the beginning of the world's end and hadn't the heart to go farther."
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