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Your flying ship is very great," the Arab admitted. "But Allah and his Prophet are greater! Allahu akbar!" "Of course. But tell thou me, Rrisa, if I were to appear at Mecca in my Nissr Arrib ela Sema my Eagle of the Sky would not thy people give me great honors?"
"What's the idea?" demanded the major ruefully. "You know very well, Major, my ruling on alcohol. It doesn't mix with any motive power on this trip. Moreover, it's customary to christen every launching with champagne. We've done it!" "Well, that's not so bad an idea, at that," Bohannan admitted, scratching his fiery head. "What name have you given this bus?" "Nissr Arrib ela Sema."
He turned it, finally, square down the launching-way, through the yawning gates where the track abruptly ended at the brow of the Palisades the empty chasm where, if all went right and no mistake had been made in build, engine-power, or control, the initial leap of Nissr Arrib ela Sema was to be made. Came a moment's wait. Faintly the pulsing of the engines trembled the fabric of Nissr.
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