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The Temple by H.P. Lovecraft.

Manuscript. Simple, by H.P. Lovecraft.

Manuscript found on the coast of Yucatan. On August 20, 1917, I, Carl Heinrich Graf-on-Alberg-Eerenstein, Lieutenant Commander in the Imperial German Navy and in charge of the submarine U-29,

deposit this bottle and record in the Atlantic Ocean at a point to me unknown, but probably about north latitude 20 degrees, west longitude 35 degrees,

where my ship lies disabled on the ocean floor.

I do so because of my desire to set certain unusual facts before the public the thing I shall not in all probability survive to accomplish in person since the circumstances surrounding me are as menacing as they are extraordinary,

and involve not only the hopeless crippling of the U-29, but the impairment of my

iron German will in a manner most disastrous.

On the afternoon of June 18, as reported by Wireless to the U61 bound for Kiel,

we torpedoed the British Freighter victory, New York to Liverpool, in north latitude

45 degrees 16 minutes, west longitude 28 degrees 34 minutes, permitting the crew to leave in boats in order to obtain a good cinema view for the Admiralty records.

The ship sank quite picturesquely, bow first, the stern rising high out of the water whilst the hull shot down perpendicularly

to the bottom of the sea. Our camera missed nothing, and I regret that so fine a reel of film should

never reach Berlin.

After that we sank the lifeboats with our guns and submerged.

When we rose to the surface about sunset, a sea man's body was found on the deck, hands

gripping the railing in curious fashion. The poor fellow was young, rather dark,

and very handsome, probably an Italian or Greek and undoubtedly of the victory's crew.

He had evidently sought refuge on the very ship which had been forced to destroy his own,

one more victim of the unjust war of aggression which the English pig dogs are

waging upon the fatherland.

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