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Whence it is that they do not only read through Aesop's fables and the fictions of poets and the Abaris of Heraclides and Ariston's Lyco; but also such doctrines as relate to the souls of men, if something fabulous be mixed with them, with an excess of pleasure that borders on enthusiasm.
My chief surprise is, that among the many writers I have noticed, no one has attempted to prove that this country was peopled from the moon or that the first inhabitants floated hither on islands of ice, as white bears cruise about the northern oceans or that they were conveyed hither by balloons, as modern aeronauts pass from Dover to Calais or by witchcraft, as Simon Magus posted among the stars or after the manner of the renowned Scythian Abaris, who, like the New England witches on full-blooded broomsticks, made most unheard-of journeys on the back of a golden arrow, given him by the Hyperborean Apollo.
It was agreed that this would be a good plan, and Dick, taking the wheel, sent his craft ahead on the lake at fast speed. "Here we go up!" he suddenly cried. Then, yanking over the lever of the elevating rudder, he sent the Abaris aloft. The rudder for sideway steering worked perfectly, now that repairs had been made.
For his grave dissertations, in which a moral maxim or other subject of general interest is handled, he disdained, in his framework to approximate to the Milesian tales, as Heraclides had done, and so to serve up to the reader even childish little stories like those of Abaris and of the maiden reawakened to life after being seven days dead.
For, in the water, the Abaris was subject to the same rules as were other lake craft. It was only when in the air that she was largely a law unto herself. The night passed quietly enough, though it came on to blow a little toward morning. But the drag anchor worked well. "And now for the repairs," cried Dick, after breakfast, as he and his chums got out the collapsible boat.
"Oh, I didn't know about the balloon marks," said the young millionaire. "Well, I'll leave the piloting to you. I think you know how to do it." Several more trial flights were made. Each time the Abaris seemed to do better. She was more steady, and in severe tests she stood up well. The gyroscope stabilizer worked to perfection under the most disadvantageous conditions.
As I have explained, all the vital parts of the Abaris were in the enclosed cabin, a unique feature of the airship. In that, located "amid-ships," was the big motor, the various controls, the living, sleeping and dining-rooms and storage compartments for oil, gasolene and supplies. Naturally there was no excess room, and quarters were almost as cramped as on a submarine, where every inch counts.
I suggest a sort of rope ladder, that can be uncoiled and let down to the ground. That might answer." "Oh, slosh!" cried Dick. "There's going to be no fire aboard the say, fellows, I haven't named her yet! I wonder what I'd better call her? "Call her the Abaris," suggested Innis, "though he wasn't a lady." "Who was he?" asked Dick. "That name sounds well."
This, then was where Parmes had hid the ring of Thoth. He might well say that it was safe, for no Egyptian would ever stain his soul by moving even the outer case of a buried friend. "That very night I set off from San Francisco, and in a few weeks I found myself once more at Abaris, if a few sand-heaps and crumbling walls may retain the name of the great city.
And while the Abaris was rushing onward those aboard her prepared to fight that most deadly of enemies fire and at a terrible disadvantage nearly ten thousand feet in the air! Fortunately preparations had been made for this emergency, and a number of portable extinguishers were placed in various places on the walls of the cabin.
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