The men in the ship told me that he was a collector: some of them had seen his collections.

Such collections! All that was potent for evil in bird or beast, or even in fish.

Beaks that could break and rend and tear--all the birds represented were of a predatory kind.

Even the fishes are those which are born to destroy, to wound, to torture.

The collection, I assure you, was an object lesson in human malignity.