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San Salvador.The smallest isl<strong>and</strong> of the Bahamas <strong>and</strong> staging area for the troops who will attack<br />

Cayo Santa Maria. Known by the old mariners as Watling Isl<strong>and</strong> after a zealous buccaneer who flogged<br />

the members of his crew who did not observe the Sabbath. Also believed to be the isl<strong>and</strong> where<br />

Columbus first stepped ashore in the New World. Has a picturesque harbor <strong>and</strong> a lush interior blued by<br />

freshwater takes.<br />

Santa Clara.Location in Cuba where the Soviets want to attempt to force the Gettysburg to l<strong>and</strong>.<br />

Santa Clara Convent.Dating from 1643, the Havana convent is taken' over <strong>and</strong> used as a temporary<br />

hospital after the explosion.<br />

Schonstedt Gradiometer.An instrument used by NUMA to detect iron by measuring magnetic<br />

intensity. Gunn is operating one aboard the Prosperteer when <strong>Pitt</strong> sets out to find the Cyclops.<br />

Selenos 4.Russian lunar probe that, instead of l<strong>and</strong>ing in Siberia, l<strong>and</strong>ed in the Caribbean Sea.<br />

Allegedly unmanned but instead carrying three cosmonauts. Raymond LeBaron was searching for the<br />

probe when he disappeared.<br />

Selenos 8.The Soviets' first manned lunar l<strong>and</strong>ing mission. It is scheduled for launch in seven days<br />

from the time the Soviets first learn of the Jersey Colony. Described as a super rocket <strong>with</strong> four strap-on<br />

boosters generating fourteen million pounds of thrust. The rocket throws out a tail of orange-yellow flame<br />

one thous<strong>and</strong> feet long <strong>and</strong> three hundred feet wide. It carries a one hundred ten-ton manned lunar<br />

station.<br />

Shea, Willie.The Jersey Colony's geophysicist. Has a hint of a Boston twang.<br />

Sherman, Jack.Comm<strong>and</strong>er of the Columbus.<br />

Sigler, Colonel Ralph Moorhouse.Described by O'Meara as a real character from the old explorer<br />

school. Arrived in the summer of 1916 in Georgetown in what was then British Guiana. With a party of<br />

twenty men, he set out into the wilds, then was not heard from until two years later, when he was found<br />

five hundred miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro by an American expedition surveying for a railroad. More<br />

dead than alive, he described stealing the La Dorada statue, then fighting off the Zanona Indians, dragging<br />

it to a river <strong>and</strong> floating it by raft downstream. O'Meara <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pitt</strong> believe Gottschalk found out about

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