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This is a short story about a man, Rainsford. He is on his way to a hunting trip in the Amazon to hunt the Jaguar. He dropped his pipe and falls off of his yacht and swims through the night to reach Ship-Trap Island. He then meets up with "the General Zaroff who is a master hunter." He has brought a huge, deaf Cossack, named Ivan. Zaroff is tired of just hunting regular animals, he complains that they have no reasoning powers or any knowledge. He decides he needs a new challenge. The only animal, he reasons, that has is able to reason are humans. He says that there is no challenge in hunting them. The general decides live on an island where he captured shipwrecked sailors and sent them, with only food, a knife, and hunting clothes, into the jungle. Three hours later, he would follow them to hunt and kill them. If they escaped him for three days, he would then let them go, but he has so far managed to kill them all. Zaroff tells Rainsford that he will be the next person he hunts. Rainsford panics and runs up a tree. Zaroff decides that it was too easy to follow Rainsford and leaves him for the night. Zaroff tries to play a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Rainsford, being a hunter himself, makes a booby trap and sets it for the General. Zaroff's dogs fall into the spike pit and die. The next day, Rainsford makes yet another trap and sets it. Ivan runs into it, a knife catapult trap, and dies. This angers Zaroff. At a later point, Rainsford finds himself trapped between the ocean fall and Zaroff. Being trapped, Rainsford jumps off of the cliff onto a small ledge and Zaroff presumes him dead. At the end of the day, Zaroff retires to his room. Rainsford, who snuck around the cliff, appears when Zaroff turns on his light. They have an epic duel, and Raisford finishes Zaroff with ease, feeding him to the dogs he so loved to use on others. Rainsford claims Zaroff's bed was the most comfortable bed he had ever slept on, in his glorious conquest of flourescent light and breathless energy.

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