March the 4th, 1889
I arrived today on the island by way of a small boat. I had brought no one else with me but a caged street dog, later in the month I expect a small number of peers to arrive as well as a shipment of animals from the poachers I have hired. I am interested in seeing what inventory they will bring to me later in the month.
My laboratory has finished construction, and was built exactly as I had specified. There is a building set aside for bedding and boarding for my assistants, kennels and stables for the beasts as well as highly reinforced bars on the cages and kennel cells for the particularly strong or ornery animals, and the main scientific compound, a medium-sized two storeyed building with operating rooms and a recovery ward. I will utilize all of this in my studies.
Now I must settle myself into my new home and become accustomed to the warm, tropical climate. It's certainly different from the cool, grey rains of London. The cabinets are stocked with supplies, both medical and consumable. There is an ice locker for the meats, this is food only myself and my assistants shall eat. The animals - to become antheria, men - will be placed on a vegetarian diet. They cannot taste flesh or blood, that will cause them to revert back to the beasts they once were before the surgeries, undoing all of my work. I cannot let that be.
Later in the week I will begin work on the dog.
Alphonse Moreau
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