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Updated: June 13, 2025
When the negroes of Kansas were said to be taking pink pills to guard themselves against Halley's Comet, they were doing something which appeared to them as eminently practical and entirely reasonable.
As this subject will be again referred to in a later chapter, Halley's views, representing the most advanced views of his age, are of interest.
When Halley took the sword-hilt from between his teeth, he was still inarticulate, but clung to Halley's arm, feeling it from elbow to wrist. "The Rissala! The dead Rissala! " he gasped, "It is down there!" "No; the Rissala, the very much alive Rissala. It is up here," said Halley, unshipping his watering-bridle and fastening the man's hands.
'If you cry out, I kill you, he said cheerfully. The man was beyond any expression of terror. He lay and quaked, grunting. When Halley took the sword-hilt from between his teeth, he was still inarticulate, but clung to Halley's arm, feeling it from elbow to wrist. 'The Rissala! The dead Rissala! he gasped. 'It is down there! 'No; the Rissala, the very much alive Rissala.
It is composed of rare gases, which, as the experience of Halley's comet many years ago showed, are unable to penetrate the atmosphere even when an actual encounter occurs. In this case there cannot even be an encounter; the comet is now moving away. Its division is not an unprecedented occurrence, for many previous comets have met with similar accidents.
In 1680 Nelson went to France with Halley, his old schoolfellow and fellow member of the Royal Society, and during their journey watched with his friend the celebrated comet which bears Halley's name.
As Malling came in he looked up and nodded. "Putting down all about Mrs. Groeber," he observed. "Anything new or interesting?" asked Malling. "Just the usual manifestations, done in full light, though." He laid aside his pen, while Malling sat down. "A letter from Flammarion this morning," he said. "But all about Halley's comet, of course. What is it?"
He recovered his composure after a little, and whispering, because Halley's pistol was at his stomach, said: 'What is this? There is no war between us now, and the Mullah will kill me for not seeing you pass! 'Rest easy, said Halley; 'we are coming to kill the Mullah, if God please. His teeth have grown too long.
Dire omens these; and hardly less ominous the aurora seemed to all succeeding generations that observed it down well into the eighteenth century as witness the popular excitement in England in 1716 over the brilliant aurora of that year, which became famous through Halley's description.
Halley's comet did not escape. It was compared to a straight sword at one visit, to a curved scimitar in 1456, and even at its last return in 1835 there were some who recognised in the comet a resemblance to a misty head. Other comets have been compared to swords of fire, bloody crosses, flaming daggers, spears, serpents, fiery dragons, fish, and so forth.
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