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The cloud had been shaken to its foundations by the two explosions, and the German witch, who had been seated perhaps on a seam in the material, or at any rate on one of the less stable parts of the fabric, had fallen through. Her parachute cloak, in passing through the hole in the cloud, had been turned inside out above her head, and rendered useless.
The reason is, that the parachute takes hold of a large mass of air, and brings it down with it; and so it cannot descend very fast." A few days after this, Nathan said to Rollo, as they were playing in the yard, that he wished that he had a parachute. "I know where there is one," said Rollo. "A parachute," said Nathan; "a real parachute?"
"Then how are you going to get up into the air?" asked Nathan. "Why, I can climb up on the shed, and jump off that, and hold the umbrella over my head." Just at this moment, Rollo's cousin James came into the yard, and Rollo ran to him, to explain to him about the parachute.
The hero of the adventure was visited by rajahs and notables, who vied with each other in expressions of welcome, in making presents, even inviting him to visit the sacred precincts of their zenanas. The promised parachute descent was subsequently successfully made at Cossipore, and then followed a busy, brilliant season, after which the wanderer returned to England.
I hitched the parachute on to my leg, got on the edge of the basket, and then well, I all but funked it. I remember my last thought was a horrible simile of a man jumping off a tree with a rope round his neck, and then somehow or other I forced myself to let go. Concerning the next few seconds I can give no statistics, whether as to height or pace.
In fact I felt a strong presentiment that I should merely be put down as a brilliant liar and the spy hunt would come to an end with the spy still in the island. That was where I still do think I was justified in playing the hand myself. But what tale could I tell? The truth that I had dropped out of a balloon? Who would believe it for an instant unless I produced the hidden parachute?
He was southeast of the field when he first noticed an object below him and "about three runway lengths off the end of Runway 30." The object looked like the top of a parachute canopy, he told me; it was white and he thought he could see the wedges or panels.
Silence reigned in the assembly, anxiety and fear being painted on the visages of all. When he had ascended upwards of 2,000 feet, he cut the cord that connected his parachute and car with the balloon. The latter exploded, and Garnerin descended in his parachute very rapidly.
I tumbled head over heels towards the huge curved shield of earth fifty miles below. I shut my eyes and that's about all I remember. I don't see how any of us could have survived. I think we're all dead. "I'll have to get up and crack this suit and let some air in. But I can't. I fell fifty miles without a parachute. I'm dead so I can't stand up."
Every descent, in fact, is determined by the side on which the incline is greatest." That these are not mere theoretical opinions or conjectures is certain from the fact that Mademoiselle Garnerin once wagered to guide herself with a parachute from the point of separation from her balloon to a place determined and very remote.
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