Gumpas
Also known as Governor Gumpas
The bureaucratic governor of the Lone Islands under whose rule slave trading flourishes. Caspian removes him and restores the islands’ proper administration.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader4 cited passages⌄
- Chapter III · paragraph 31
"To be sure there is," said the man, "Governor Gumpas. His Sufficiency is at Narrowhaven. But you'll stay and drink with us."
Open passage → - Chapter III · paragraph 74
"And what is this governor, this Gumpas, like? Does he still acknowledge the King of Narnia for his lord?"
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 3
…n reached the castle gates, nearly the whole town was shouting; and where Gumpas sat in the castle, muddling and messing about with accounts and forms and rules and regulations, he heard the n…
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 11
…retaries about him sat his Sufficiency, the governor of the Lone Islands. Gumpas was a bilious looking man with hair that had once been red and was now mostly grey. He glanced up as the strang…
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