The brutes did their best to worry him, butting their muzzles at him. The black-faced man, howling in a singular voice rolled about under the feet of the dogs. A couple of sailors appeared on the forecastle. ‘Steady on there!’ he cried, in a tone of remonstrance. So soon as the second man had appeared, Montgomery had started forward.
The red-haired man gave a yawp of exultation and stood staggering, and as it seemed to me in serious danger of either going backwards down the companion hatchway or forwards upon his victim. It was lucky for him that they were muzzled. The poor devil went down like a felled ox, and rolled in the dirt among the furiously excited dogs. The black hesitated before them, and this gave the red-haired man time to come up with him and deliver a tremendous blow between the shoulder-blades. At the sight of the former the staghounds, who had all tired of barking at me by this time, became furiously excited, howling and leaping against their chains. He was immediately followed by a heavy red-haired man in a white cap. He leaves London and lives in near-solitude in the countryside, devoting himself to chemistry as well as astronomy in the studies of which he finds some peace.Suddenly we heard a yelp and a volley of furious blasphemy from the companion hatchway, and the deformed man with the black face came up hurriedly. As ships rarely pass the island, Predict will be housed in an outer room of an enclosed compound. Seeing that the captain has abandoned Predict, Montgomery takes pity and rescues him. Despite this, the captain leaves Predict in a dinghy and sails away. A passing ship called Ipecacuanha takes him aboard, and a man named Montgomery revives him. The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of Edward Predict, an Englishman with a scientific education who survives a shipwreck in the southern Pacific Ocean.
The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Predict, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H.
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