Herbert George Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George Wells

I DO not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss ofthe Lady Vain. As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out fromCallao. 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 knownas the far more horrible Medusa case. But I have to add to the published story of the LadyVain another, possibly as horrible and far stranger. It has hitherto been supposed that thefour men who were in the dingey perished, but this is incorrect. I have the best of evidencefor this assertion: I was one of the four men