Captain Jon Voyage introduces himself as the world famous host of a taxidermy museum. He explains to a group of children that taxidermy is the process of stuffing and mounting animal skins to preserve them. He jokes that one day someone might sneak up on them in the forest, knock them out, stuff them with sand, and put their glass eyes on display at the museum. Captain Voyage says he has come to the island because there are rumors of a big creature there, and where there is a big creature to be found, there is profit to be made through tourism. He asks his crew member Groggins to introduce his profession, to which Groggins responds that he is a botanist.