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The Island of Doctor Moreau

H G Wells

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I DO not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the ¡¥Lady Vain.¡¦ 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 of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible ¡¥Medusa¡¦ case. But I have to add to the published story of the ¡¥Lady Vain¡¦ another, possibly as horrible and far stranger. It has 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,¡Xthe number was three. Constans, who was ¡¥seen by the captain to jump into the gig,¡¦* luckily for us and unluckily for himself did not reach us. He came down out of the tangle of ropes under the stays of th