This gripping tale starts with an adrift group washed ashore on a strange island where a group of people known as the Links resided. The Links, which the narrator described as “between five feet six inches; thin, entirely naked, long-armed, flat-nosed, big-jawed, with reddish light-brown skin,” were equally as surprised to see the narrator and his group, yet despite their differences, a sense of comradeship started to take root.