If I'd had any means of digging into the coral rockI'd have buried him. I felt exactly as if he was human. As it was,I couldn't think of eating him, so I put him in the lagoon, and the littlefishes picked him clean. I didn't even save the feathers. Then one day achap cruising about in a yacht had a fancy to see if my atoll stillexisted.
So I had to work all alone. At first I had a little laboratory,but as my resources began to run out I had to conduct myexperiments in a wretched unfurnished room... read more
