A small-time colonial who dreams of returning to a bourgeois European lifestyle. The doctor initially refuses to treat Coyotito but changes his mind after learning that Kino has found a great pearl. He represents the arrogance, condescension, and greed at the heart of colonial society.
The word friends can be replaced by the pronoun THEY but in this case the phrase replaced will be some of our friends , that is to say the subject . Another option is to replace our friends by THEM . In this sentence friends can be repalced by THEM