Gumpas

Governor Gumpas is a bureaucrat. His wheezy insistence that the king of Narnia follow his rules about appointments and times is very comical, because he clearly does not understand who he is dealing with. Gumpas is cowardly and selfish, and knows nothing but his own little world of petty power and underhanded dealings. But he is also a cunning man who has long profited from the slave trade on the Lone Islands. Gumpas' men are like him: sloppy, slovenly, and disrespectful to the true authority of the Narnian king. In many ways Gumpas and the slaver Pug are two sides of the same coin, both seeking to profit from the suffering of others and the lack of accountability with their Narnian overlords. Gumpas' modern-world bureaucracy is very out of place in the medieval world of Narnia, and he represents what was to Lewis a corrupt and inane system.