Saturnin Farandoul

Origin
As an infant, Saturnino was the only survivor of a shipwreck that stranded him on the island of Pomotu. The island was inhabited by monkeys and apes who raised young Saturnino. However, when he grew up, and did not develop a tail or other monkey traits, he was spurrned by the natives and forced to set sail from the island on a raft. The raft was soon picked up by a ship, and on the ship, Saturnino learned to speak English and quickly rose to the rank of ensign. He met a girl named Mysora, who he fell in love with and the two of them went on to have quite a few bizarre adventures around the world, under the sea and in the sky. Saturnino battled pirates, cannibals and a variety of dangerous animals. He was a strong fighter, often carried a gun and he could communicate with primates. He also developed a spiked "lion-proof" suit at one point.

Public Domain Film Appearances
The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913)

a novel by Albert Robida written in 1879 as a pastiche of the works of Jules Verne. Part parody, part tribute, it's full title was The Extraordinary Voyages of Saturnino Farandola, in the Five or Six Parts of the World and in All Countries Known and Unknown to Mr Jules Verne.

Professor Maboul

The film tells the adventures of Saturnino Farandola, the only surviving of a shipwreck when he was a baby (his father and mother saving him at the cost of their lives). He arrives to a strange island inhabited exclusively by monkeys. Those animals raise him for years but when they see that as time goes by the infant doesn’t have a tail, they decide to ignore him. Humiliated, Saturnino leaves the island in a raft and is rescued by a boat. There he will learn to speak and to behave properly, becoming an officer. The boat will be attacked by pirates and from then Saturnino will live one strange adventure after another (his fiancée will be eaten by a whale, he will have to search for a white elephant, he will join the North America Milligan army against those South Milligan forces or he will experience air balloon battle, etc…) Along the way he will visit many countries (Oceania, Siam, Amerika) and finally to return to the place of his origins, the monkey island. Mysora