Many photographs and columns of descriptive matter were run in the
newspapers.
The crew was reported to be composed principally of Scandinavians--
fair-haired, blue-eyed Swedes, Norwegians afflicted with the
temperamental melancholy of their race, stolid Russian Finns, and a
slight sprinkling of Americans and English. It was noted that there
was nothing mercurial and flyaway about them. They seemed weighty
men, oppressed by a sad and stolid bovine-sort of integrity. A sober
seriousness and enormous certitude characterized all of them. They
appeared men without nerves and without fear, as though upheld by
some overwhelming power or carried in the hollow of some superhuman
hand. The captain, a sad-eyed, strong-featured American, was
cartooned in the papers as "Gloomy Gus" (the pessimistic hero of the
comic supplement).
Some sea-captain recognized the Energon as the yacht Scud, once owned
by Merrivale of the New York Yacht Club. With this clue it was soon
ascertained that the Scud had disappeared several years before.
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