He panics and flees, but the stranger chases him. As he walks back, Prendick suddenly realizes he is being followed by something in the jungle. While he wanders, he encounters a group of people who seem human but also resemble swine. Prendick assumes Moreau is performing a painful experiment on the animal, and its anguished cries drive Prendick into the jungle. The next day, Moreau begins working on a puma. Prendick remembers that he has heard of Moreau, formerly a physiologist in London, who had fled England after his gruesome experiments in vivisection had been publicly exposed. Seeing that the captain has abandoned Prendick, Montgomery takes pity and takes him in. Montgomery explains that he will not be able to host Prendick on the island, but nonetheless, the captain leaves Prendick in a dinghy and sails away. As they approach the island, the captain demands that Prendick leave the ship with Montgomery. The ship is transporting a number of animals, which belong to Montgomery. Prendick also meets a grotesque native named M’ling, who appears to be Montgomery’s servant. A passing ship takes him aboard, and a man named Montgomery revives him. It is an account of Edward Prendick, an Englishman with a scientific education who survives a shipwreck in the southern Pacific Ocean. The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 novel by H.
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