Sawmill Alley Hunters: Characters

The characters of Yoshimasa Ikeda’s Sawmill Alley Hunters

Joseph Wilton: A proud and arrogant poacher from Chicago, Joseph Wilton has been hunting bears since he was a teen labourer. Later on, he poached a bunch of lions in the troubled borders between Congo Kinshasa, Rwanda and Uganda, plus a bunch of hungry, starving tigers in both Sumatra, Indonesia and the Malay Peninsula. 

Frank McConaughey: Joseph Wilton’s friend, also from Chicago. 

The Recurring Characters 

Jibril Ali Majid: A Malaysian of Mandailing descent, Jibril saw his wife and teenaged daughter get attacked by a hungry, starving tiger, who unfortunately lost his old dad to cruel poachers. He surely knows that, as revenge isn’t totally good, he frankly tries to tell Joseph about leaving the hungry, raiding tigers alone, but Joseph never really cares about anything. Instead, he then shoos off the main tiger and reluctantly shoots him twice onto his vulnerable belly, while Joseph, much to his dismayed confusion, rips off the poor tiger’s head, slices off his tail and cuts off all the four legs out of his body. 

Abu Hassan: Jibril’s Johor Malay friend.

The Named Animals 

Dakhm: Dakhm is a cunning, erudite Bornean Orangutan trying to survive being attacked by poachers in Sarawak. Fortunately, after he was drunk on honey while being unhappily trapped in a crate, he is reluctantly sent off to an old New York State zoo, although he sadly misses his own jungle homeland as a result. His name meant ‘bulky’ in Arabic, fitting his big cheeked dominant male status.

Muftaris: Muftaris was the male tiger of ‘The Malaysian Beast Files’. His name meant ‘devourer’ in Arabic, decently fitting his occasional man eating periods when he was injured and there are too many raiding humans around. He gained his moniker when he and his old mum Sharisa got injured by really mean poachers, who killed the former, but not the latter, as it was she who herself partially ate the weakest poacher out of starvation and ironically survived for a while. 

Khalsa: Khalsa was a cunning male leopard, whose would be mate was Jazeera. 

Fazaea: Fazaea was a foulmouthed and dangerous Malayan hairy rhinoceros. His name meant ‘scarecrow’ in Arabic, fitting his hairy body. 

Faisal: Faisal is a scary, though cute looking, Malayan sun bear. 

Urutu: Urutu was a strong old lion who had survived battles with fellow lions, but not so with vile poachers regardless of nationality, skin colour or ethnicity. His name meant ‘pain’ in Kinyarwanda, fitting his dangerous and strong personality rather well. He gained his moniker when he unhappily lost his fellow lion friends, themselves ironically old bachelors, and lot of his favourite prey to poachers. As a result, he was hungrily looking for more food, but reluctantly found civilian humans to be a sucky snack, since there were poachers nearby. Unfortunately, poor Urutu, along with his estranged grownup offspring, was shot in the belly by Joseph and then had his fur pelt being sent into the Chicago Museum later on. He had two older named daughters (Ubwiza and Umudamu) and a younger named son (Ubujura), who are all from a favourite mate of his. 

Uburakari: A grouchy yet vulnerable black rhinoceros, Uburakari frankly didn’t care about anyone except for his rather poor sight. His name meant ‘foul temper’ in Kinyarwanda, fitting his survival induced personality. 

The Gonya (Ingona) mafia: A mafia of Nile crocodiles led by croc boss Igipimo, whose name meant ‘scale’ in Kinyarwanda. They were shot by Joseph and his gang.