Zaroff is also a big game hunter, and after Rainsford explains his situation, Zaroff gives him a large meal and a place to rest. He soon meets the chateau owner, General Zaroff, who instructs Ivan to stand down and explains Ivan is deaf and without speech. Rainsford’s knock on the door is met by a large, black-bearded man named Ivan, pointing a revolver. Rainsford follows boot prints on the ground and eventually comes upon a large chateau high on a bluff. He finds it odd that such a small caliber round would be used against what appears from the evidence to be a sizeable animal. As he starts picking his way along the shore, he sees signs of a struggle-blood and crushed foliage-along with an empty. Upon waking, Rainsford takes in the rough and wild jungle landscape. When he realizes that he cannot swim back to the boat, he decides to swim toward the island, where he washes up on shore and falls into a deep sleep. After Whitney turns in, Rainsford hears gunshots as the boat passes the island shore, and upon shifting closer to investigate, he falls overboard. They agree that they are lucky to be the hunters, not the hunted. They also discuss their impending hunt, considering the effects of man on the animal kingdom and how the hunted animals must feel. As they pass an island called Ship-Trap Island on a dark night, Rainsford and his friend Whitney stand on the ship deck and discuss the superstitions sailors hold about the mysterious Caribbean island. As the story opens, Sanger Rainsford, a game hunter, is on a yacht traveling to the Amazon to hunt the largest cat of the region-the jaguar.
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