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  • And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken captain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the vessel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a considerable amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887,

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

  • And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken captain, John Davies, did

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 1896

  • And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken captain, John Davies, did

    The Island of Doctor Moreau 1896

  • And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken captain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the vessel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a considerable amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle’s story.

    Introduction Herbert George 1896

  • a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken captain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the vessel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas

    The Island of Doctor Moreau 1906

  • I counted on the "Ipecacuanha" returning as the year wore on; but she never came.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau 1906

  • One had a shock of red hair, like the captain of the "Ipecacuanha," and

    The Island of Doctor Moreau 1906

  • One had a shock of red hair, like the captain of the "Ipecacuanha," and a dirty white cap lay in the bottom of the boat.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 1896

  • I counted on the "Ipecacuanha" returning as the year wore on; but she never came.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 1896

  • I counted on the “Ipecacuanha” returning as the year wore on; but she never came.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

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