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This "swamper" is described as having "a gaunt face, the small black orifice of his yelling studded with rotten teeth" (226).

These unarmed loggers who join the hunt for Old Ben travel thirteen miles to get to Major de Spain’s camp.

A growing number of local men join the hunters at Major de Spain’s camp to see Lion hunt down Old Ben. The men have a stake in the hunt: they “had fed Old Ben corn and shoats and even calves for ten years” (224). They are described as “in their own hats and hunting coats and overalls which any town negro would have thrown away or burned and only the rubber boots strong and sound, and the worn and blueless guns and some even without guns” (224).

The named men from town who come into the woods to be part of the hunt for Old Men are Bayard and John Sartoris and Jason Compson, but the group also includes these two unnamed men.

The son who accompanies General Compson on the hunt for the bear is not named in Go Down, Moses, but the only son the General is ever given in the fictions is the man who is a major character in The Sound and the Fury (1929) and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). He is the third Compson named Jason on the family tree.

The son who comes with Bayard Sartoris to watch the hunt for the bear is not named in Go Down, Moses. In Flags in the Dust, however, he is identified as John, the husband of Lucy Cranston, and the father of the twins Bayard and John.

Bayard appears as a guest in Major de Spain’s hunting camp. He is the father of John Sartoris (II) and a prominent member of Jefferson society.

This man, who drives Major de Spain's coach, lent Boon the gun that Boon used to shoot at another Negro.

The woman was accidentally shot in the leg by Boon when she passed by as Boon attempted to shoot another man.

The passengers on the train from Memphis to Hoke’s are “buttonholed” by Boon, forced to listen to him talk about Lion, and too intimidated to tell him that he is not allowed to drink on the train (222). Under the Jim Crow laws, railroad cars were racially segregated, so all these passengers would have been white. There would probably have been women in the railroad car with Boon, but the text says "the men he buttonholed" (222).