![]() 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. Prendick intervenes and averts a brawl, but earns the captain’s disdain in the process. As they near the island that Montgomery and M’ling are traveling to, Captain Davis, owner of the vessel, is set into a drunken rage and abuses M’ling, provoking an altercation between himself and Montgomery. Montgomery and M’ling are traveling with a host of caged animals, including many rabbits and a Puma, though they will not tell Prendick what their purpose is. Prendick is repulsed by M’ling’s appearance, though he can’t quite discern why until he notices a greenish gleam in M’ling’s eyes at night, much like that of an animal. A man named Montgomery revives him and begins nursing him back to health, with the aid of his small, beastly servant, M’ling. The story begins with the narrator, a biologist named Edward Prendick, describing how after being shipwrecked and lost at sea for days, he is rescued by a small trading vessel. ![]()
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