Furthermore, he observes that the Ipecacuanha did actually leave port carrying a variety of animals and under the command of a drunken captain John Davis, and that it disappeared at a time that fits his uncle's story.Ĭhapter I-IN THE DINGHY OF THE 'LADY VAIN'Įdward Prendick now narrates, and he explains that he is one of the four men thought to have made it to a lifeboat after the Lady Vain sank, although he asserts that there were in fact only three men the fourth drowned attempting to join them. Although at first he gave a fantastic account of the eleven month interim, he later claimed to have no memory of it.Ĭharles Edward then attempts to establish a factual background for the story, noting that Noble's Island, an uninhabited volcanic inlet, is in the vicinity of where his uncle had been picked up. His uncle was then found eleven months and four days later adrift in a boat belonging to a missing ship named the Ipecacuanha. According to Charles Edward Prendick, the nephew of the protagonist, a ship named the Lady Vain collided with a derelict and resulted in the deaths of all crew and passengers with the exception of his uncle, "a private gentleman" named Edward Prendick.
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