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But Michael never sailed out of Tulagi, nigger-chaser on the Eugénie. Once in five weeks the steamer Makambo made Tulagi its port of call on the way from New Guinea and the Shortlands to Australia. And on the night of her belated arrival Captain Kellar forgot Michael on the beach. In itself, this was nothing, for, at midnight, Captain Kellar was back on the beach, himself climbing the high hill to the Commissioner's bungalow while the boat's crew vainly rummaged the landscape and canoe houses.In fact, an hour earlier, as the Makambo's anchor was heaving out and while Captain Kellar was descending the port gang-plank, Michael was coming on board through a starboard port-hole. This was because Michael was inexperienced in the world, because he was expecting to meet Jerry on board this boat since the last he had seen of him was on a boat, and because he had made a friend. No library descriptions found. |
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Michael’s life seems perfectly happy until Daughtry is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to the pest house. The dog falls into the hands of Harry Del Mar and after some time is given to Harris Collins, a well-known animal trainer.
What's so bad about that, right? Surely animal trainers love their companions?
Think again. Sticks, whips, clubs, starvation, spiked collars, spiked saddles, electrified cages - these are the methods by which animals are trained to perform on call. Not love, but fear is the motivation.
London obviously loved dogs. I don't think any other writer understood them quite like he did. He doesn't anthropomorphize them as such, just tries to consider them on their own terms, but very much within the context of their relations with humans.
'Whatever the human soul may be—informing spirit, identity, personality, consciousness—that intangible thing Michael certainly possessed. His soul, differing only in degree, partook of the same attributes as the human soul.'' ( )