ng for some shelter from the hot sun in the ruinsof a building of some kind. The time traveler explains it this way, “I entered it groping,for the change from light to blackness made spots of colour swim before me. Suddenly Ihalted spellbound. A pair of eyes, luminous by reflection of the daylight without, waswatching me out of the darkness.... I put out my hand and touched something soft. Atonce the eyes darted sideways, and something white ran past me. I turned with my heartin my mouth, and saw a queer little ape-like figure, its head held down in a peculiarmanner, running across the sunlit space behind me. It blundered against a block ofgranite, staggered aside, and in a moment was hidden in a black shadow beneath anotherpile of ruined masonry. My impression of it is, of course, imperfect; but I know it was adull white, and had strange large greyish-red eyes; also there was flaxen hair on its headand down its back.”(56-57) The time traveler then chased after the Morlock and said “Itwas so like a human spider!”(57) when it retreated down a shaft into the earth. The timetraveler figures the Morlocks to be subterranean creatures. He says the light gleaming offthe big, glassy eyes of the Morlock reminded him of the eyes of nocturnal animals. Thetime traveler goes down one of these shafts into the earth to see what he can learn. Heheard the thumping of large machinery he assumed was to circulate air into theunderground tunnels. He saw a large piece of meat on a table and smelt blood. He usedmatches to find his way around and to keep the Morlocks away from him. Whenever amatch would go out, Morlocks would slowly gather around him, gently grabbing at him. He got the sick feeling that they were trying to keep him down there, possibly to makedinner out of him.Once the time traveler had learned this much about the two races, he was able tocome up with a theory as to how man kind, our descendants, had b...
