Captain Nielson And Whitney Diary Report

Dear, Captain Nielson and Whitney

You are probably wondering what happened to me, the last night that I had been on the ship after Whitney had gone to bed. I went to smoke pipe on the afterdeck. I had heard 3 gun shots somewhere, off in the blackness. When I heard the gun shots I went to see if there was anything I could see. But I couldn’t see anything so I got up onto the railing for a greater elevation, and then a rope hit my pipe and it was knocked from my mouth. As a reaction I lunged for it and I lost my balance and before I knew it, I was in the water. I cried out hoping someone would hear me and I tried to swim after the racing yacht but after I had swam about fifty feet, I began to realize there was no way I was going to catch up to it. I stopped in the water and I heard a high screaming sound, the sound of an animal in an extremity of anguish and terror. I didn’t even recognize the animal. I swam in the direction of witch the scream came from, and then I heard pistol shots. I swam on because it was the only shot I had to survive. As I had reached the rocky shore I got myself up with all the strength I had left and headed for the forest area and I found a tree with underbrush and that is where I slept because
I found a castle looking like house and I knocked on the door, and very bear like figure opened the door and I had a long-barreled revolver pointed directly at my heart. I introduced myself and made it clear I was no robber and I had no intentions to hurt anyone and said “I fell off a yacht”. The only answer was to raise his thumb hammer of his revolver. Then out of nowhere a man said “it is a very great pleasure and honor to welcome you”. The man who said that introduced himself as General Zaroff. The man holding the revolver had put it down and saluted the