Auckland
cityReal-world: Auckland
The home port of the two-masted schooner Emma, which cleared for Callao on February 20th with eleven men; Johansen returned here with yellow hair turned white before selling his cottage and sailing to Oslo.
Auckland was the home port of the two-masted schooner Emma, which sailed for Callao on February 20th with a complement of eleven men. The Emma cleared in ballast, and felt the full force of the earthquake-born tempest which must have heaved up from the sea-bottom the horrors that filled men's dreams.
The Auckland correspondent of the Sydney Bulletin gave the Emma and her crew an excellent reputation, and described Johansen as a sober and worthy man.
It was to Auckland that Johansen returned, his yellow hair turned white, after a perfunctory and inconclusive questioning at Sydney; there he sold his cottage in West Street and sailed with his wife to his old home in Oslo — which is what the narrator learned when his own search brought him to the city.
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“had been second mate of the two-masted schooner Emma of Auckland, which sailed for Callao February 20th, with a complement of eleven men”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 3, The Madness from the Sea
“Our Auckland correspondent gives the Emma and her crew an excellent reputation, and Johansen is described as a sober and worthy man.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 3, The Madness from the Sea
“In Auckland I learned that Johansen had returned with yellow hair turned white after a perfunctory and inconclusive questioning at Sydney, and had thereafter sold his cottage in West Street and sailed with his wife to his old home in Oslo.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 3, The Madness from the Sea