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kill him (though he'd like to) because Jim protects him from the
wrath of Doramin's followers, who would very much like his head.
Jim regularly demonstrates his fearlessness by accepting the
rajah's coffee, which he has good reason to think may be
poisoned.

When Patusan is invaded by Gentleman Brown and his small army of
pirates, the rajah, through his representative Kassim, carries
on negotiations with the invaders. This cynical diplomacy comes
to nothing, but the outcome of events--the deaths of Jim and
Dain Waris--seems likely to restore the old tyrant's former
power.

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LORD JIM: KASSIM

Kassim, the rajah's right-hand man, is a cunning diplomat who
greets Jim on his arrival in Patusan (Chapter Twenty-four) and
later negotiates in the rajah's name with Gentleman Brown. Like
the rajah, he hates Jim and Doramin.

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LORD JIM: DORAMIN

Doramin is the leader of the Patusan Bugis, a group of some 60
Muslim families, from the neighboring island of Celebes, who
form the faction opposed to the rajah. The old man is immensely
fat, but his weight isn't comical; each pound seems to add to
his mountainlike dignity. Doramin protects Jim for the sake of
his old friendship with Stein. He is, in general, wise and
wily; but he ultimately lets his love for his son Dain Waris
overrule his good judgment. Thus, he forestalls an attack on
the invaders in Jim's absence, fearing that his son will be
harmed in the battle. Later, after Brown's men have killed Dain
Waris, Doramin takes revenge by shooting Jim. Not only is his
vengeance an irrational act, but it's a highly foolish and
irresponsible one that will bring great harm to the Bugis he
leads, since Jim is their main protection against the tyranny of
the Rajah Allang.

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LORD JIM: DAIN WARIS

Dain Waris, Doramin's son, is a stock figure of adventure
fiction: handsome, intelligent, daring, respectful of his
parents, and so forth. Marlow sings his praises by listing the
ways in which he's "like a white man" (Chapter Twenty-six)--a
racist way of implying that Malays who aren't like white men are
inferior. Because Doramin is ambitious for his son to become
ruler of Patusan, he's not entirely comfortable with Jim's