The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

There is at least this much in its behalf: my uncle passed out of human knowledge about latitude 5' S. With that understood, there seems no harm in putting this strange story before the public in accordance, as I believe, with my uncle's intentions.

So that this narrative is without confirmation in its most essential particular. A party of sailors then landed, but found nothing living thereon except certain curious white moths, some hogs and rabbits, and some rather peculiar rats. The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble's Isle, a small volcanic islet and uninhabited. The following narrative was found among his papers by the undersigned, his nephew and heir, but unaccompanied by any definite request for publication. His case was discussed among psychologists at the time as a curious instance of the lapse of memory consequent upon physical and mental stress. Subsequently he alleged that his mind was a blank from the moment of his escape from the Lady Vain. He gave such a strange account of himself that he was supposed demented. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha. On January the Fifth, 1888 - that is eleven months and four days after - my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3' S. ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S.

He soon finds that the only way to survive is to bring madness upon the island of Dr Moreau, a thing he wishes would never have happened.-Submitted by Larry Carson INTRODUCTION. A man is found afloat in the middle of the ocean-he then finds himself thrust into a world that is inhabited by monstrosities, ruled by a mad man.

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells