The group eventually fights their way through various enemies to secure the treasure and learn the fate of the original expedition.

Only 70 or 80 sailors from the original expedition returned to England at all.

If I'd been here with the original expedition that chose the observatory site-!

Over the years the curse has taken the lives of almost all the members of the original expedition.

I wonder where the ships of the original scouting expedition set down last?

The fact that the original scouting expedition didn't see anything doesn't prove a thing.

Almieri's original expedition might have run into one or perhaps more Chameloids some twenty years ago.

The lander that got left behind in the original expedition?

There had been a medic included in the original expedition, hadn't there?

Nearly a century later, his grandson returns to discover what happened to the original expedition.