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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: defeat at the Inspector's problem, there was one man in that gathering
who suspected a touch of bizarre familiarity in the monstrous
shape and writing, and who presently told with some diffidence
of the odd trifle he knew. This person was the late William Channing
Webb, Professor of Anthropology in Princeton University, and an
explorer of no slight note. Professor Webb had been engaged, forty-eight
years before, in a tour of Greenland and Iceland in search of
some Runic inscriptions which he failed to unearth; and whilst
high up on the West Greenland coast had encountered a singular
tribe or cult of degenerate Esquimaux whose religion, a curious
form of devil-worship, chilled him with its deliberate bloodthirstiness
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