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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: the excellent example of our many recent and exceptionally brilliant
predecessors. It was the unusual number and fame of these predecessors
which made our own expedition - ample though it was - so little
noticed by the world at large.
As the newspapers told, we sailed
from Boston Harbor on September 2nd, 1930, taking a leisurely
course down the coast and through the Panama Canal, and stopping
at Samoa and Hobart, Tasmania, at which latter place we took on
final supplies. None of our exploring party had ever been in the
polar regions before, hence we all relied greatly on our ship
captains - J. B. Douglas, commanding the brig Arkham, and serving
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