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It was originally intended that Lunardi should be accompanied by a passenger; but as there was a shortage of gas the balloon's lifting power was considerably lessened, and he had to take the trip with a dog and cat for companions. A perfect ascent was made, and in a few moments the huge balloon was sailing gracefully in a northerly direction over innumerable housetops.
Moreover, the approach of night or passage through cloud or falling rain would occasion chilling of the gas or accumulation of moisture on the silk, in either case necessitating the loss of ballast, the store of which is always the true measure of the balloon's life.
"If we catch 'em," he replied. The signal platform was awhirl with bunting; the voice of the Chief Yeoman repeating hoists rose above the stamp of feet and the flapping of flags in the wind. Thorogood turned to the Navigator. "Will you take on now?" he asked in a low voice. "If the balloon's really going up this time I'd better get along to my battery."
"Oh, the balloon's leaking!" cried Flossie, as she felt a damp spot on her red cheek. Freddie also felt some wet splashes, but he saw at once what they were. "It's raining!" he cried. And so it was. The storm had broken. "Raining!" cried Flossie. "And we hasn't got any umbrella!" "We don't need one," said the little boy. "The balloon's so big it will be like an umbrella over us."
"Ye circle this here field an' climb the hill, then take the first turn." "Which way?" "West, if you don't want ter jump in the river." "What, we're back at the river," gasped Bassett. "That's about my luck. The balloon's gone over the river; it's in New York, and some Harlem reporter is leading it down to his office on a leash to have it photographed, and I'm I'm hoodooed, that's all."
"We assumed then," the captain told him, "that a meteor had caused the disturbance. That it had gone through the balloon making a hole through which the balloon's nitrogen was escaping, making a jet action and accelerating the ship. "It seems, however, that we are under acceleration, and that the acceleration is too great to be such jet action, since Hot Rod does not have sufficient pressure.
With respect to the first difficulty, he points out the fact to which we have already referred, namely, that it is impossible to avoid the fluctuations of level in a balloon's course, "by which it constantly becomes alternately subjected to escape of gas by expansion, and consequent loss of ballast, to furnish an equivalent diminution of weight."
They will often float behind the balloon's wake, but sometimes again will be found in front, and sometimes striking off in some side direction, so wayward and complex are the currents which control such small bodies. Mr.
Thousands saw it and understood its silent and yet eloquent meaning, but no one could tell where it had fallen, finally, after many weeks, the emperor, who had often asked after the balloon's fate, received the wished- for answer. The balloon had fallen in Rome, upon Nero's grave!
"This balloon's as easy to manage as a canoe." Tom got out the chart and marked out the course and measured it, and says: "To go back west is the shortest way, you see. It's only about seven thousand miles. If you went east, and so on around, it's over twice as far."
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