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Updated: May 13, 2025
Even from that elevation, those on board the Ithuriel were able with the aid of their field-glasses to see with perfect ease the commotion which the appearance of the air-ship with the captured aerostat had produced in the Russian camp.
"And, after all, what has happened to us thus far may not seem so utterly incredible after our explorations are completed." "Of this region, do you mean, sir?" "Of the Olympic mountains, and all their mountainous chain may encompass, yes," curtly spoke the man of hopes, stepping inside the aerostat to perfect his arrangements for the night.
The chance of encountering an aerostat gliding through the air was too remote to be regarded. In any case it would be all the worse for the aerostat the earthen pot and the iron pot. The "Albatross" had nothing to fear from the collision. But what could happen? The aeronef might find herself like a ship on a lee shore if a mountain that could not be outflanked or passed barred the way.
As a further assurance, uncle Phaeton begged Edgecombe to enter the aerostat, then skilfully caused the vessel to float upward into clear space, sailing out over the lake even to the whirlpool itself before turning, his passenger eagerly watching every move and touch of hand, asking questions which proved him both shrewd and ingenious, from a mechanical point of view.
Although the aerostat had landed not far below the crest of those hills, the adventurers had to climb higher, before winning the coveted view, partly because the most practicable route led down into and along a winding gulch, where the footing was far less treacherous than upon the higher ground, cumbered, as that was, with the leaf-mould of centuries.
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