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I
had
largely
given
over
my
inquiries
into
what
Professor
Angell
called
the
"
Cthulhu
Cult
"
,
and
was
visiting
a
learned
friend
in
Paterson
,
New
Jersey
;
the
curator
of
a
local
museum
and
a
mineralogist
of
note
.
Examining
one
day
the
reserve
specimens
roughly
set
on
the
storage
shelves
in
a
rear
room
of
the
museum
,
my
eye
was
caught
by
an
odd
picture
in
one
of
the
old
papers
spread
beneath
the
stones
.
It
was
the
Sydney
Bulletin
I
have
mentioned
,
for
my
friend
had
wide
affiliations
in
all
conceivable
foreign
parts
;
and
the
picture
was
a
half-tone
cut
of
a
hideous
stone
image
almost
identical
with
that
which
Legrasse
had
found
in
the
swamp
.
Eagerly
clearing
the
sheet
of
its
precious
contents
,
I
scanned
the
item
in
detail
;
and
was
disappointed
to
find
it
of
only
moderate
length
.
What
it
suggested
,
however
,
was
of
portentous
significance
to
my
flagging
quest
;
and
I
carefully
tore
it
out
for
immediate
action
.
It
read
as
follows
:
MYSTERY
DERELICT
FOUND
AT
SEA
Vigilant
Arrives
With
Helpless
Armed
New
Zealand
Yacht
in
Tow
.
One
Survivor
and
Dead
Man
Found
Aboard
.
Tale
of
Desperate
Battle
and
Deaths
at
Sea
.
Rescued
Seaman
Refuses
Particulars
of
Strange
Experience
.
Odd
Idol
Found
in
His
Possession
.
Inquiry
to
Follow
.
The
Morrison
Co.
's
freighter
Vigilant
,
bound
from
Valparaiso
,
arrived
this
morning
at
its
wharf
in
Darling
Harbour
,
having
in
tow
the
battled
and
disabled
but
heavily
armed
steam
yacht
Alert
of
Dunedin
,
N.
Z.
,
which
was
sighted
April
12th
in
S.
Latitude
34
◦
210
,
W.
Longitude
152
◦
170
with
one
living
and
one
dead
man
aboard
.
The
Vigilant
left
Valparaiso
March
25th
,
and
on
April
2nd
was
driven
considerably
south
of
her
course
by
exceptionally
heavy
storms
and
monster
waves
.
On
April
12th
the
derelict
was
sighted
;
and
though
apparently
deserted
,
was
found
upon
boarding
to
contain
one
survivor
in
a
half-delirious
condition
and
one
man
who
had
evidently
been
dead
for
more
than
a
week
.
The
living
man
was
clutching
a
horrible
stone
idol
of
unknown
origin
,
about
a
foot
in
height
,
regarding
whose
nature
authorities
at
Sydney
University
,
the
Royal
Society
,
and
the
Museum
in
College
Street
all
profess
complete
bafflement
,
and
which
the
survivor
says
he
found
in
the
cabin
of
the
yacht
,
in
a
small
carved
shrine
of
common
pattern
.
This
man
,
after
recovering
his
senses
,
told
an
exceedingly
strange
story
of
piracy
and
slaughter
.
He
is
Gustaf
Johansen
,
a
Norwegian
of
some
intelligence
,
and
had
been
second
mate
of
the
twomasted
schooner
Emma
of
Auckland
,
which
sailed
for
Callao
February
20th
with
a
complement
of
eleven
men
.
The
Emma
,
he
says
,
was
delayed
and
thrown
widely
south
of
her
course
by
the
great
storm
of
March
1st
,
and
on
March
22nd
,
in
S.
Latitude
49
◦
510
W.
Longitude
128
◦
340
,
encountered
the
Alert
,
manned
by
a
queer
and
evil-looking
crew
of
Kanakas
and
half-castes
.
Being
ordered
peremptorily
to
turn
back
,
Capt.
Collins
refused
;
whereupon
the
strange
crew
began
to
fire
savagely
and
without
warning
upon
the
schooner
with
a
peculiarly
heavy
battery
of
brass
cannon
forming
part
of
the
yacht
's
equipment
.
The
Emma
's
men
shewed
fight
,
says
the
survivor
,
and
though
the
schooner
began
to
sink
from
shots
beneath
the
waterline
they
managed
to
heave
alongside
their
enemy
and
board
her
,
grappling
with
the
savage
crew
on
the
yacht
's
deck
,
and
being
forced
to
kill
them
all
,
the
number
being
slightly
superior
,
because
of
their
particularly
abhorrent
and
desperate
though
rather
clumsy
mode
of
fighting
.
Three
of
the
Emma
's
men
,
including
Capt.
Collins
and
First
Mate
Green
,
were
killed
;
and
the
remaining
eight
under
Second
Mate
Johansen
proceeded
to
navigate
the
captured
yacht
,
going
ahead
in
their
original
direction
to
see
if
any
reason
for
their
ordering
back
had
existed
.
The
next
day
,
it
appears
,
they
raised
and
landed
on
a
small
island
,
although
none
is
known
to
exist
in
that
part
of
the
ocean
;
and
six
of
the
men
somehow
died
ashore
,
though
Johansen
is
queerly
reticent
about
this
part
of
his
story
,
and
speaks
only
of
their
falling
into
a
rock
chasm
.
Later
,
it
seems
,
he
and
one
companion
boarded
the
yacht
and
tried
to
manage
her
,
but
were
beaten
about
by
the
storm
of
April
2nd
.
From
that
time
till
his
rescue
on
the
12th
the
man
remembers
little
,
and
he
does
not
even
recall
when
William
Briden
,
his
companion
,
died
.
Briden
's
death
reveals
no
apparent
cause
,
and
was
probably
due
to
excitement
or
exposure
.
Cable
advices
from
Dunedin
report
that
the
Alert
was
well
known
there
as
an
island
trader
,
and
bore
an
evil
reputation
along
the
waterfront
.
It
was
owned
by
a
curious
group
of
half-castes
whose
frequent
meetings
and
night
trips
to
the
woods
attracted
no
little
curiosity
;
and
it
had
set
sail
in
great
haste
just
after
the
storm
and
earth
tremors
of
March
1st
.
