Prendick is interned in a small room, with a door to Moreau’s laboratory on one side and the island forest on the other. Montgomery and Moreau initially refuse to let Prendick join them on the island, but after Prendick is set adrift at sea for the second time by Captain Davis, they take pity on him and bring him to the island. They reach the island and the captain demands that Prendick leave the ship as well, either putting himself overboard or joining Montgomery and his employer, a scientist named Moreau, who owns the island. Prendick intervenes and averts a brawl, but earns the captain’s disdain in the process. As they near the island that Montgomery and M’ling are traveling to, Captain Davis, owner of the vessel, is set into a drunken rage and abuses M’ling, provoking an altercation between himself and Montgomery. Montgomery and M’ling are traveling with a host of caged animals, including many rabbits and a Puma, though they will not tell Prendick what their purpose is. Prendick is repulsed by M’ling’s appearance, though he can’t quite discern why until he notices a greenish gleam in M’ling’s eyes at night, much like that of an animal. A man named Montgomery revives him and begins nursing him back to health, with the aid of his small, beastly servant, M’ling. The story begins with the narrator, a biologist named Edward Prendick, describing how after being shipwrecked and lost at sea for days, he is rescued by a small trading vessel.
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