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Updated: May 19, 2025
Frycollin was being towed and towed is exactly the word, for the rope made such an angle, with the aeronef, now going at over sixty knots an hour, that the tub was a long way behind her. The crew were busy in preparing for the storm, for the "Albatross" would either have to rise above it or drive through its lowest layers.
"Oh!" said the Negro, beginning his lamentations. "Take care, Fry, take care! For, as they say in my country, the master may send you to the seesaw!" And Frycollin gulped down his sobs as he gulped down the meat which, in double doses, he was hastily swallowing.
One thing was evident, that Phil Evans and he would find it difficult to attend the club next evening. As to Frycollin, with his eyes shut and his mouth closed, it was impossible for him to think of anything. He was more dead than alive. For an hour the position of the prisoners remained unchanged.
But this conclusion was not arrived at without many objurgations and loud-sounding phrases hurled at this Robur who, from what had been seen of him at the Weldon Institute, was not the sort of man to trouble himself much about them. Suddenly Frycollin began to give unequivocal signs of being unwell.
Meanwhile the "Albatross" drove along above the Atlantic, and in the morning when the sun rose there was nothing to be seen but the circular line where earth met sky. Not a spot of land was insight in this huge field of vision. Africa had vanished beneath the northern horizon. When Frycollin ventured out of his cabin and saw all this water beneath him, fear took possession of him.
There were different preserves; and, among other things, was a sort of bread made of equal parts of flour and meat reduced to powder and worked together with a little lard, which boiled in water made excellent soup; and there were rashers of fried ham, and for drink there was tea. Neither had Frycollin been forgotten. He was taken forward and there found some strong soup made of this bread.
With a master ever ready to venture on the most audacious enterprises, Frycollin's cowardice had brought him many arduous trials. But he had some compensation. Very little had been said about his gluttony, and still less about his laziness. Ah, Valet Frycollin, if you could only have read the future!
Think of their joy at again treading the earth they had lost for so long at walking on solid ground and being no longer the playthings of the atmosphere! They were staring up the creek to the interior of the island when suddenly a form rose in front of them. It was Frycollin. The Negro had had the same idea as his master and the audacity to start without telling him.
Gousta, whose summit dominates this wonderful region of Tellermarken, stood in the west like a gigantic barrier apparently impassable. And when the "Albatross" resumed her journey at full speed her head had been turned to the south. And during this extraordinary flight what was Frycollin doing? He remained silent in a corner of his cabin, sleeping as well as he could, except at meal times.
In a few seconds the cable was cut, and the breeze, which had increased considerably, striking the "Albatross" on the quarter, carried her out over the sea. It was then twenty minutes after midnight. Five or six shots had been fired from the aeronef. Uncle Prudent and Frycollin, supporting Phil Evans, had taken shelter among the rocks. They had not been hit.
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