The Island of Doctor Moreau
Karbon Kitaplar
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 It was visited in 1891 by H M S Scorpion 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
Platanus Publishing
We drifted famishing and after our water had come to an end tormented by an intolerable thirst for eight days altogether After the second day the sea subsided slowly to a glassy calm It is quite impossible for the ordinary reader to imagine those eight days He has not luckily for himself anything in his memory to imagine with After the first day we said little to one another and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon or watched with eyes that grew larger and more haggard every day the misery and weakness gaining upon our companions The sun became pitiless The water ended on the fourth day and we were already thinking strange things and saying them with our eyes but it was I think the sixth before Helmar gave voice to the thing we had all been thinking I remember our voices were dry and thin so that we bent towards one another and spared our words I stood out against it with all my might was rather for scuttling the boat and perishing together among the sharks that followed us but when Helmar said that if his proposal was accepted we should have drink the sailor came round to him
