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"Tintin And The Secret Of The Unicorn" is the eighteenth serial in The Adventures of Tintin. It was originally published in French in 1939, and has since been translated into six languages, including English. However, the original edition is notably hard to find--the serial is seldom seen outside academic circles or specialist bookstores. There are several reasons for this scarcity--notably its predominant use of Scottish dialect--that make this an attractive target for collectors. The story begins when Professeur Calculus tells Tintin about a fabled sunken pirate ship called the Unicorn which had sailed from Edinburgh after Captain Hatteras’ oceanic flight ended in disaster on his birthday three years before. Calculus claims to have located the ship and that it has become infested with Red Indians; wanting Tintin’s company, he provides him with a diving suit to explore the wreck. Together they travel to Edinburgh, where Calculus shows him the Unicorn on a model ship in his hotel room. Next morning, Tintin is awoken by Calculus before dawn. They board Calculus’ motor boat, "Altair", and set out. By dusk they have reached the coast of Scotland near Loch Naver, where Calculus drops anchor so they can wait for nightfall before proceeding. As they gaze at the moonlit loch, they hear a noise above them. Heartened by the boatswain’s call of "Hullo--ye wuddna say ye’re maudlin at this hour of night", Tintin and Calculus swim for a length of time until they reach a large buoy. They discover it is attached to one of several rope moorings that have been set out from the Unicorn so that divers can carry supplies from Loch Naver to Hatteras’ shipwreck on the floor of the ocean. The bags contain provisions and equipment designed to aid the survival of anyone who spends too long in the water. Next morning, Calculus is discovered unconscious in one of the bags, his lungs filled with bubbles; he is suffering from hypoxia (oxygen poisoning). Tintin launches a boat to bring help for his colleague, but is hit by a sudden squall on his return journey. When he reaches Loch Naver, Tintin awakes a man named MacGuffin, who takes him to Hatteras’ partially sunken ship on a little boat named "Wodwo". Hatteras has rediscovered it and intends to use it as a base for further research into navigation. He has assumed the name of Captain Hatteras, and the crew are disguised as Red Indians. After Tintin introduces himself, Hatteras proposes that they dive to the shipwreck the next day. However, when Tintin returns to Calculus’ hotel later that night, he finds it ablaze. Thinking Calculus has perished in the fire, Tintin meets up with MacGuffin again to gain more information about the Unicorn. MacGuffin shows Tintin a videocassette that leads him to believe Calculus is alive. As they take another boat down Loch Naver, MacGuffin tells Tintin about his voyage through many seas. cfa1e77820
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