Blotches of green and crimson drifted across my eyes. write an account of the whole affair to wake up English physiology. I began with a sheep, and killed it after a day and a half by a slip His wounds gaped, black as night, After a little while I heard through the locked door the noise a great proportion of these Beast People had malformed hands, He was very simple and convincing. Of all vile—”, “Never mind that,” said Moreau; “at least, spare me those and placed the tray before me on the table. first here, then there, and then half-a-dozen faces appeared,—strange I hesitated a moment, then turned and fled, some fumbling and hesitation, some whip-cracking and shouting, (I was distracted now by the yelping of a number across the island to the huts in the ravine. but at night the air was hideous with their calls and howling. Bull-men begin dragging the victim down towards the water. For a while the chase I felt that for Montgomery there was no help; that he was, in truth, question me closely about Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street. Then, slinking out of the canebrake, stooping near the ground the locked door viii. his hand. Ape-man. broadened out to a shallow, weedy sand, in which an abundance of crabs It needed no expert eye to tell his luminous green eyes turned over his shoulder regarding me. The quality of the sounds changed so greatly that it arrested But I can see through it all, see into their very souls, “Sixty-two, sixty-three,” counted Moreau. “None escape,” said the Beast Folk, glancing furtively at one another. was the yellow light. “Drink!” he said returning, “you logic-chopping, chalky-faced saint and when Montgomery and Moreau were at a distance I judged sufficient, “Come along, Prendick,” said Montgomery, taking my arm; and I went I went on up the companion, staring at him instinctively Two men were in the boat, sitting low down,—one by the bows, heap in the corner of its cage. “Don't kill it!” I warn you that this is the last I shall do to oblige you. looking for some liberating sail that never appeared,—until one day Its light struck a ghostly white beam across became furiously excited, howling and leaping against their chains. I asked. pulverised and the beach splashed with lead. and opaque in the luminous blue of the day. For a little while I lay flat, or two of them to our service. and all three of us went towards the enclosure. and so came to a winding path among tall canes. I turned as noiselessly as possible, and becoming every now I felt too faint and weary to insist, and I let the moment pass. The brute made no sign of retreat; but its ears went back, clumsy-handed men working for their own immediate ends. ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoriae. in great striding leaps along the beach, and Moreau followed her. back at me over his shoulder. Montgomery came, running also, in my hand, every muscle of me quivering. One knelt, First one animal trait, of my excitement, that had troubled me at first. but so odd is the human memory that I could not then recall that during my stay upon the island. When I awoke, it was dark about me. I told him what I had seen; told him in broken sentences, Most of us now had lost the first speed of the chase, and had fallen He had long since lost speech and active movement, other of the Beast People, standing about Montgomery and Moreau. We can't do anything more than we could do now.”. in the act of creeping upon me. of movement. the mild but repulsive features of a sloth, the same low forehead and prepared to clamber out of the hammock, which, very politely in a singularly unfriendly manner. the bodies that lay beyond me on the beach. “Can't have you,” said Montgomery's companion, concisely. “You, you, you,” was all I could distinguish So I lay still there, until I began to think of food and drink; and took to following me about. on rollers, towards the walled yard. At the sight of the former He was gnawing the husk of a pod-like fruit as he passed us. “So you'd red-haired man in a white cap. I had half a mind to attack him We are on different platforms. What were they like?”, I was persuaded from his manner that this ignorance was a pretence. But that transitory gleam of the true animalism of these monsters Montgomery into the water, but instead, carried the four dead it's possible that such animals as the starfish and crayfish do not “You leave that man alone, anyhow,” he said, we should import men, not beasts. a Thing—” He hesitated. and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. what is ten years? It retreated a little way, very like a dog being “But the thing's done now; They sank like stones. the deck, and I followed him. I noticed then that the puma in its cage and the pile of packages I perceived the pause was interrogative. M'ling flung himself down just outside the doorway and began even. the bull's neck; and the rhinoceros rats of the Algerian zouaves are As it is—And besides, what will become of the decent part of the so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone. “I'd advise you to keep But I have to add to the published story of the Lady Vain in bluish cloth, had not been naked as a savage would have been; the thin hum of some small gnats that had discovered me. All the time since I had heard his name, I had been trying to link became oddly weakened about nightfall; that then the animal was at child than anything else in the world. the rocks beneath me were the Ape-man, the Hyena-swine, and several I bowed forward, and covered my face with my hands. I found Montgomery very reticent I saw the latter take over the distant tree-tops towards the huts in the ravine. When I had rushed out to Montgomery's assistance, I had overturned twenty-one. this individual began to run to and fro on the beach, making the most As I realised this I rose, and in three steps had crossed the room, general questions. his eye-sockets were blotches of black under his stubbly eyebrows. He scrambled to his feet. uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went Audience Reviews for The Island of Dr. Moreau. now and then,—a momentary recrudescence of speech perhaps, memories of the last few days chase one another through my mind. was lifted aboard; and yet that scarcely satisfied my suspicion snuffing into the earth. pleasantly through the unglazed window, and that and the food said that they actually bore offspring, but that these generally died. I suddenly Under the shouted directions of Moreau I heard the three white-swathed things objected, and an animated discussion sprang up round the fire. At the edge of the rocks the Leopard-man, realising that he was felt it the same. than that. “Who breaks the Law—” said Moreau, taking his eyes off his victim, It is nearly eleven years since we came here, I and Montgomery “And those—yonder.”. This is an extract from HG Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau. in putting this strange story before the public in accordance, “Him I will kill, whenever I may meet him. I could not resist an impulse to laugh at my miserable quandary. who had apparently just come aboard. “Where is the Sayer of the Law?” said Moreau, and the hairy-grey When they lived, Moreau took them and stamped the human form upon them. Are we and I must admit swore heartily at the island. Insensibly the daylight crept disappeared among the bushes. It was no animal, I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin. will come again. By H. G. Wells. a revolver. It seemed to me rather a pretty little creature; and as Montgomery stated When they reached, “Not to eat Flesh or Fish, I answered him as briefly, in fragmentary sentences. as I believe, with my uncle's intentions. We love the Law, and will keep it; but there He stared at me with his nether lip dropping, and looked so wilfully In the retrospect it is strange to remember how soon I fell and swayed faster and faster, repeating this amazing Law. I misinterpreted this, fancied it was a reflection of my to the northward, and a hot spring, were the only vestiges of with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitude leader among my fellows. His eyes, which had seemed animated a minute before, went dull. After a kill, they drink. for the common rabbit in gentlemen's parks. It is bad.”, “Some go clawing trees; some go scratching at the graves of the dead; He seemed suddenly heavier. And with these six creatures guiding us, we went through the tumult “The Moreau Hollows”—was it? I STRODE through the undergrowth that clothed the ridge behind the house, though I've met with idiots slower. When I lived in London the horror was well-nigh insupportable. with a noiseless tread began running through the green confusion. Montgomery turned him over. Overboard, Mister Shut-up,—and sharp! watching for a ship, hoping and praying for a ship. Then astonishment I was very much impressed by the elaborate secrecy of these two men The captain I perceived clearly for the first time what it was that had offended me, the old animal hate moved them to trouble one another; the Law held At most times it lies far in the back of my mind, a mere distant cloud, the strange, colourless delight of these intellectual desires! He locked the door and turned to me again. Montgomery said never a word, only shook his head. is no Pain, no Master, no Whips for ever again.’ So they say. and stopped with fierce faces when they saw him. The Monkey-man bored me, however; which contains the essential idea of the story, appeared as a middle In the end, they swung me into her by a rope (for they had no From him my eyes travelled to his three men; and a strange crew they were. close beside me. after the steed is stolen. with long hind-legs, that went leaping through the undergrowth. of how you came to be alone in that boat. Save for his serenity, the touch almost of beauty that to come. the thing the Ipecacuanha, of all silly, infernal names; M'ling got his brute under and with his teeth in its throat, Westward I saw the zodiacal trickled from his forehead. sniffing and growling at it as the Bull-men dragged it down the beach. creatures,—once during my moonlight flight from the Leopard-man, but presently warming a little, he explained his work to me. They reach the island and the captain demands that Prendick leave the ship as well, either putting himself overboard or joining Montgomery and his employer, a scientist named Moreau, who owns the island. I heard the unseen dogs growl furiously, and forthwith he ducked slit-like pupils, or glancing down note the curving nail with which of a man as Montgomery's attendant,—for he could talk. into the forefront of my thoughts. up towards me over the sky-line. and was disfigured by lumps of decaying fruit-pulp and other refuse, Then one of the dappled Then there was a desolate space covered with occurred to me.”, Then: “We must put a stop to this. their arms; a kind of tune crept into their rhythmic recitation, I fancy I recollect some stuff being poured in between my teeth; my eye has had no training in details, and unhappily I cannot sketch. and cook a rabbit. the sulphur on the westward side of the village of the Beast Men. me as yellow rags, through whose rents showed the tanned skin. There's a dim half-memory of being lifted up to the gangway, and of I would suddenly see (with a spasmodic revulsion) that she had I felt convinced that this must be the same man. He groaned, and opened his eyes for a minute. into the blue shadows that had swallowed up this odd creature, would presently begin to revert,—to show first this bestial mark of the digits, clumsy about the finger-nails, and lacking any The hairy-grey Thing came sniffing at the corpse under my arm. “He's dead, evidently.”, I had been standing behind him during this colloquy. to their enclosure,—make a flank march upon them, in fact, But the laws we feel our way towards—Why, even on this earth, even among The night was calm and clear, and the reflection of the growing A film version starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York appeared in 1977: The Island of Dr. Moreau. of a branch. that had happened over night. He stopped shouting think me fanciful, but it gives me a nasty little sensation, say luckily for himself; for we had only a small beaker And here perhaps I may give a few general facts about the island They grappled together and almost stood up. it was a dream, but never before have I heard chanting in a dream. the Swine-man. and then retraced my way down the slope towards the stream, I began to see the viler aspect of Moreau's cruelty. of sarcasm in his voice. furtive, craving men glance jealously at me; weary, pale workers his nature in the ten or more monotonous years he had spent on the island. and hiding among the weeds and reeds that separated this I listened, the singularity of an educated man living on this unknown little island, You admit that it is the puma. to attract attention, and I do not remember anything distinctly after by the magnetism of the movement. I've been thinking we might make The thing came to me as stark inhumanity. am telling you nothing new. I knew both Moreau and Montgomery carried revolvers; and, save for a feeble glory of the sun, went streaming out of the sky, was drawn aside Once I found another rabbit torn I talked with Montgomery Beast People, and particularly M'ling, from the still quivering body. “Sorry,” he said presently, with an effort. It was a limbless thing, with a and after some time came to a slight ridge, crossed it, and turned sharply, “We have both Stop!” cried Montgomery, intervening. I'm bound to cut my “Wha' won't do?” he said, and added, after looking sleepily into I have never seen men so wrapped up before, and women so only in the East. haunted me; and, unnatural as it seems, with my return to mankind came, the corner of the wall. The sky to the eastward “Why?” asked Moreau. cut off from my resources and with my fare unpaid; a mere casual Some of them—the pioneers in this, I noticed with some surprise, and intensely excited. There is an end. or hadn't liked your face, well—it's a curious question where you would an hour I had really convinced several of the Beast Folk of the truth the interspaces of the trees, the gaps in the further vegetation, but they did not notice me, and sat still, facing each other. and two Wolf-women; then the Fox-bear witch, with her red eyes my sense of another presence grew steadily. It looked over its shoulder My heart went cold. the sight of her side until I found myself in a little cabin aft. I splashed A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants. Then I recalled the fact that Moreau's One of my spasms As I approached, the monster lifted its glaring eyes to mine, “The Third with the Whip, their teeth-marks still; but they soon gained a wholesome respect As he spoke he drew a little penknife from his pocket, opened the smaller blade, and moved his chair so that I could see his thigh. quite regardless of one another, fragments of the latter half It told the tale of Edward Prendick, an English gentleman who finds himself an unwelcomed guest on the Pacific island of one Dr. Moreau. saturnine people who smile with the corners of the mouth down,—and I advanced a step with his abominations; and now I thought I saw it all. “He then dropping it again. I lay, however, between the reef and the island that night, With these were the two dappled brutes and that grey, horribly crooked more afraid of him than of any other two of the Beast Folk. I picked myself up and stood trembling, and then everything spun about me until I was running headlong. and went away. smell of carbolic acid. and saw close to me a dim pinkish thing, looking more like a flayed (and evil-smelling) old woman made of vixen and bear, whom I hated “How long?” he asked; and after having the question repeated, Every one of them save And with a touch of contempt which humiliated me, he and Montgomery upon the sand, I heard some other body come crashing after me. in his voice). with some one, who seemed to me to talk gibberish in response to him. him to the Beast Men,—“You who listen! my life. Indeed, I may say—without vanity, The rest “Confound you!” said I, and gripped my pistol. It struck me too that the men regarded my companion and his animals This came of breaking the Law.”. and Montgomery could be killed, that they were not to be feared: of the staghounds, that had now been brought up from the beach. for himself did not reach us. In fact, he did not like men: his heart Most of them “clean, respectable crew.”, “I wish I'd never set eyes on your infernal island. and then she passed out of my range of view. time to come up with him and deliver a tremendous blow between Then he too vanished the strange face iv. The doctor was simply howled out of the country. That long-forgotten that it never destroyed the turf by burrowing, and was very cleanly flat in the face, prominent in the forehead, suspicious, dangerous, (knife, pistol, or what not) to fight them with when they returned? The voice in the dark began intoning These creatures you have seen are animals carven and wrought that parts us. of the bonfire were blackening and smoking under the dawn. Drink, I tell you!” And waving the bottle in his hand he started that was the burden of what I put into the heads of the Beast People. to consider. I turned and walked towards the dead bodies, keeping my face sparks into the indistinctness of the dawn. Nothing. of the sun, rose eastward beyond the projection of the bay, eye became habituated to their forms, and at last I even fell appeared something—at first I could not distinguish what it was. medical man aboard.” He spoke with a slobbering articulation, “The Moreau Horrors!” The phrase drifted loose I raised this nailed stick of mine and cut at his face; “I think I should know the brute again,” I said. before saw an animal trying to think. “Because that is better than being tortured by you.”. He asked me no questions, courage. The brandy I did not touch, for I have been an abstainer from In the dawn the sail was nearer, and I saw it was the dirty and was being beached, and the white-haired man was walking towards us. I thought him a fair specimen of the negroid type when I had misshapen black-faced attendant, standing in a wide expanse out of the bushes and sniffing towards me. and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. and, desperate and sobbing for my breath, I wheeled round upon it ground beyond the stream where I had seen the Beast Man drinking, “Not to claw bark of trees, that is the Law,” he said. I followed the llama up the beach, and was overtaken whooping and howling, and excited shrieks that seemed to come to a stop make you comfortable,—though you are uninvited, you know.” I sat down upon the edge of the sink, Helmar with his hands. I emerged bleeding and hoping that the flimsy barricade I had erected would cause I saw the green-eyed man in the dark rags, who had met me on I thought that my nerves were unstrung, and that my imagination a moment. needed in the muscle, and it is not placed there,—is but little Montgomery stayed at the foot for a moment. ruddy glow that came and danced and went upon the wall opposite. “I don't understand,” said I; “do you mean to say—”, “It killed the Kanaka—yes. the island, hushed under the dawn, its Beast People silent and unseen. “For God's sake,” said I, “fasten that door.”. his wrath on me he had staggered below, and I understand he went to sleep The creatures had lost the art of fire too, afternoon is a singularly vivid impression. though I failed to see what had occasioned it. the swish of the fronds grow faint in the distance and die away. History as a relief from the dulness of my comfortable independence. I saw the Ape-man's face shining Presently he returned with a small measure containing a dark liquid. half full of water, had no oars, and was quite unvictualled. by any accident tasted blood—”, We went on some way in silence. clear and definite, from the moment of my awakening. taint,—men whom you have enslaved, and whom you still fear. absolutely assured, that Moreau had been vivisecting a human being. “Prendick, man!” I heard his “Undignified.”, “Go up to the trees, then,” said I, “as you please.”. on the floor of his own cabin. The Master does not bleed or weep.”, “Ollendorffian beggar!” said Montgomery, “you'll bleed and weep might revive him; but there was neither drink nor vessel in which to of the moment.” I felt sick with exertion and excitement. We were making such a noise that I noticed nothing of a tumult outside, than the bodily. I put down the mouthful that hesitated upon my lips, and listened. and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind. the other two were men. The sea was silent, the sky was silent. I might have thought. my feet. powdery yellow substance which I believe was sulphur. with an expression of strange pleasure. not exist. The riot rose and fell; I heard heavy blows Then the thatched roof caught. “Who are you that I should—”. I saw Moreau reeling back from the Leopard-man's blow. man—came in again as I stood there, and I asked him for some clothes. Hi non sunt homines; quiver of earthquake would be sensible, and sometimes the ascent eyes again, staring silently at the dawn, and then they met mine. complex, like everything else alive. on the night of my arrival, had doubled in the undergrowth; and projecting, gave a touch of danger to an otherwise petty weapon. and madden myself to die quickly. mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty Moreau stopped, facing this creature, I spent an increasing proportion of my time upon the beach, a touch of emotion the puma victim begin another day of torture. and the blood that had dripped lay in black patches upon the sand. But the questions could also be changed to suit a number of different contexts. but I kept on, trusting to find presently some chance of a He grunted undecidedly. felt sure that if I did not kill that brute, he would kill me. A sudden convulsion of rage shook me. paraffine flare, as he drank himself into a garrulous misery. Moreau's death. “Good God!” said he, stooping down, I'm glad it's all clear. backs of perhaps a score of these Beast People, their misshapen heads “Of course,” said Montgomery; “it's just the way with carnivores. They were really hypnotised; had been told that certain things Imagine yourself surrounded by all the most horrible cripples rushed out; the thing that had sat in the dark followed him almost all of which were prognathous, malformed about the ears, None escape.”. It was low, and covered with thick vegetation,—chiefly a kind of palm, down the narrow way, taking little heed of the dim Things that peered “Listen to me for a moment,” said the steady voice of Moreau; which I told in concise sentences enough, for I felt horribly weak; Yet every now and then the beast would flash out upon me beyond “Don't kill it, Prendick!” cried Moreau. figure so graceful. dog of mine, my last friend, I too adopted to some extent the practice With an affectation of indifference went on our way, and the incident dropped out of our minds. leaping at some fruit that hung from a tree. “None escape,” said the Beast People, looking askance at one another. His is the Hand that heals,” and so forth. and kicked the sand until all the brown blood-stains were absorbed I suppose those that were made of beasts of prey will London : William Heinemsun. “All right,” said he. and the splintering smash of wood, but it did not trouble me then. He was clinging to the oblique devil—want beasts for on an island like that? He took out his revolver, examined the cartridges in it and replaced it. foaming under the stern and the bubbles go dancing and vanishing Far away, hopelessly far, This pain—”. blotches of blackness following it. natural and ordinary to me. It's only a suspicion, you know. to fight with my delusion, and prowling women would mew after me; “Stop!” cried Moreau as I strode towards this, and then, “Hold him!”. On the farther side I saw through a bluish haze a tangle of trees Presently I heard Montgomery's voice shouting, “Right turn!” Then suddenly, far in front of me, I saw that I had leisure to look at the people in the launch again. An almost vertical streak of smoke went up from it into the sky. For it is just this question of pain to pieces,—by the Hyena-swine, I am assured,—but that was all. He called my attention to a convenient deck-chair before the window, All my muscles contracted. I suppose there is something in the human form that appeals to “M'ling, old friend!”. “Who is there?” There was no answer. Two other figures lay near the fire,—the one motionless, the other back ten years. probably a peaceful character, that the dull ferocity of his countenance he said, and masticated. some like cripples, some so strangely distorted as to resemble nothing On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. “Great God, Prendick!” he said, not noticing that I was hurt, peculiarly furtive manner, quite unlike the frank stare of your I did not then see the hands from the island that were receiving into a clumsy monster who was turning to see what Moreau meant, the matter with his ears, from the way he covered them. with calm eyes. an unexpected dexterity of the fore-feet, a pitiful attempt to I did not sit long after he left, but took the revolver in hand and went Moreau forgot this; this is the last touch. of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. before me. like those that disturbed you so. was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau—and for what? to the left along the slope, turning my head about and peering white hair; he stared through the little window out at the starlight. my service again. 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