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The
puma
was
resting
to
heal
that
day
;
but
Moreau
,
who
was
singularly
solitary
in
his
habits
,
did
not
join
us
.
I
talked
with
Montgomery
to
clear
my
ideas
of
the
way
in
which
the
Beast
Folk
lived
.
In
particular
,
I
was
urgent
to
know
how
these
inhuman
monsters
were
kept
from
falling
upon
Moreau
and
Montgomery
and
from
rending
one
another
.
He
explained
to
me
that
the
comparative
safety
of
Moreau
and
himself
was
due
to
the
limited
mental
scope
of
these
monsters
.
In
spite
of
their
increased
intelligence
and
the
tendency
of
their
animal
instincts
to
reawaken
,
they
had
certain
fixed
ideas
implanted
by
Moreau
in
their
minds
,
which
absolutely
bounded
their
imaginations
.
They
were
really
hypnotised
;
had
been
told
that
certain
things
were
impossible
,
and
that
certain
things
were
not
to
be
done
,
and
these
prohibitions
were
woven
into
the
texture
of
their
minds
beyond
any
possibility
of
disobedience
or
dispute
.
Certain
matters
,
however
,
in
which
old
instinct
was
at
war
with
Moreau
's
convenience
,
were
in
a
less
stable
condition
.
A
series
of
propositions
called
the
Law
(
I
bad
already
heard
them
recited
)
battled
in
their
minds
with
the
deep-seated
,
ever-rebellious
cravings
of
their
animal
natures
.
This
Law
they
were
ever
repeating
,
I
found
,
and
ever
breaking
.
Both
Montgomery
and
Moreau
displayed
particular
solicitude
to
keep
them
ignorant
of
the
taste
of
blood
;
they
feared
the
inevitable
suggestions
of
that
flavour
.
Montgomery
told
me
that
the
Law
,
especially
among
the
feline
Beast
People
,
became
oddly
weakened
about
nightfall
;
that
then
the
animal
was
at
its
strongest
;
that
a
spirit
of
adventure
sprang
up
in
them
at
the
dusk
,
when
they
would
dare
things
they
never
seemed
to
dream
about
by
day
.
To
that
I
owed
my
stalking
by
the
Leopard-man
,
on
the
night
of
my
arrival
.
But
during
these
earlier
days
of
my
stay
they
broke
the
Law
only
furtively
and
after
dark
;
in
the
daylight
there
was
a
general
atmosphere
of
respect
for
its
multifarious
prohibitions
.
And
here
perhaps
I
may
give
a
few
general
facts
about
the
island
and
the
Beast
People
.
The
island
,
which
was
of
irregular
outline
and
lay
low
upon
the
wide
sea
,
had
a
total
area
,
I
suppose
,
of
seven
or
eight
square
miles
.
2
It
was
volcanic
in
origin
,
and
was
now
fringed
on
three
sides
by
coral
reefs
;
some
fumaroles
to
the
northward
,
and
a
hot
spring
,
were
the
only
vestiges
of
the
forces
that
had
long
since
originated
it
.
Now
and
then
a
faint
quiver
of
earthquake
would
be
sensible
,
and
sometimes
the
ascent
of
the
spire
of
smoke
would
be
rendered
tumultuous
by
gusts
of
steam
;
but
that
was
all
.
The
population
of
the
island
,
Montgomery
informed
me
,
now
numbered
rather
more
than
sixty
of
these
strange
creations
of
Moreau
's
art
,
not
counting
the
smaller
monstrosities
which
lived
in
the
undergrowth
and
were
without
human
form
.
Altogether
he
had
made
nearly
a
hundred
and
twenty
;
but
many
had
died
,
and
others
--
like
the
writhing
Footless
Thing
of
which
he
had
told
me
--
had
come
by
violent
ends
.
In
answer
to
my
question
,
Montgomery
said
that
they
actually
bore
offspring
,
but
that
these
generally
died
.
When
they
lived
,
Moreau
took
them
and
stamped
the
human
form
upon
them
.
There
was
no
evidence
of
the
inheritance
of
their
acquired
human
characteristics
.
The
females
were
less
numerous
than
the
males
,
and
liable
to
much
furtive
persecution
in
spite
of
the
monogamy
the
Law
enjoined
.
2
This
description
corresponds
in
every
respect
to
Noble
's
Isle
.
--
C.
E.
P.
It
would
be
impossible
for
me
to
describe
these
Beast
People
in
detail
;
my
eye
has
had
no
training
in
details
,
and
unhappily
I
can
not
sketch
.
Most
striking
,
perhaps
,
in
their
general
appearance
was
the
disproportion
between
the
legs
of
these
creatures
and
the
length
of
their
bodies
;
and
yet
--
so
relative
is
our
idea
of
grace
--
my
eye
became
habituated
to
their
forms
,
and
at
last
I
even
fell
in
with
their
persuasion
that
my
own
long
thighs
were
ungainly
.
Another
point
was
the
forward
carriage
of
the
head
and
the
clumsy
and
inhuman
curvature
of
the
spine
.
Even
the
Ape-man
lacked
that
inward
sinuous
curve
of
the
back
which
makes
the
human
figure
so
graceful
.
Most
had
their
shoulders
hunched
clumsily
,
and
their
short
forearms
hung
weakly
at
their
sides
.
Few
of
them
were
conspicuously
hairy
,
at
least
until
the
end
of
my
time
upon
the
island
.
The
next
most
obvious
deformity
was
in
their
faces
,
almost
all
of
which
were
prognathous
,
malformed
about
the
ears
,
with
large
and
protuberant
noses
,
very
furry
or
very
bristly
hair
,
and
often
strangely-coloured
or
strangely-placed
eyes
.
None
could
laugh
,
though
the
Ape-man
had
a
chattering
titter
.
Beyond
these
general
characters
their
heads
had
little
in
common
;
each
preserved
the
quality
of
its
particular
species
:
the
human
mark
distorted
but
did
not
hide
the
leopard
,
the
ox
,
or
the
sow
,
or
other
animal
or
animals
,
from
which
the
creature
had
been
moulded
.
The
voices
,
too
,
varied
exceedingly
.
The
hands
were
always
malformed
;
and
though
some
surprised
me
by
their
unexpected
human
appearance
,
almost
all
were
deficient
in
the
number
of
the
digits
,
clumsy
about
the
finger-nails
,
and
lacking
any
tactile
sensibility
.
The
two
most
formidable
Animal
Men
were
my
Leopard-man
and
a
creature
made
of
hyena
and
swine
.
Larger
than
these
were
the
three
bull-creatures
who
pulled
in
the
boat
.
Then
came
the
silvery-hairy-man
,
who
was
also
the
Sayer
of
the
Law
,
M'ling
,
and
a
satyr-like
creature
of
ape
and
goat
.
There
were
three
Swine-men
and
a
Swine-woman
,
a
mare-rhinoceros-creature
,
and
several
other
females
whose
sources
I
did
not
ascertain
.
There
were
several
wolf-creatures
,
a
bear-bull
,
and
a
Saint-Bernard-man
.
I
have
already
described
the
Ape-man
,
and
there
was
a
particularly
hateful
(
and
evil-smelling
)
old
woman
made
of
vixen
and
bear
,
whom
I
hated
from
the
beginning
.
She
was
said
to
be
a
passionate
votary
of
the
Law
.
Smaller
creatures
were
certain
dappled
youths
and
my
little
sloth-creature
.
But
enough
of
this
catalogue
.
