The Island of Doctor Moreau - H G Wells - Books - - 9798589468281 - January 2, 2021
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H G Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau

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I DO not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the LadyVain. As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from Callao. The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat Myrtle, and the story oftheir terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible Medusa case. But Ihave to add to the published story of the Lady Vain another, possibly as horrible and far stranger. Ithas hitherto been supposed that the four men who were in the dingey perished, but this is incorrect. I have the best of evidence for this assertion: I was one of the four men. But in the first place I must state that there never were four men in the dingey, -the number wasthree. Constans, who was "seen by the captain to jump into the gig,"{1} luckily for us and unluckilyfor himself did not reach us. He came down out of the tangle of ropes under the stays of thesmashed bowsprit, some small rope caught his heel as he let go, and he hung for a moment headdownward, and then fell and struck a block or spar floating in the water. We pulled towards him, buthe never came u

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 2, 2021
ISBN13 9798589468281
Pages 98
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 5 mm   ·   249 g
Language English  

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