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The odometer with which to measure the distance to Prescott was placed in charge of Corporal Henry, and he was told to strap this to the spokes near the hub of the right hind wheel of the last wagon in the train, taking care that the wagon should start from the same point where it had turned from the main road into camp the previous day.
In a cylindrical bracelet of gold about my wrist was my Barsoomian chronometer a delicate instrument that records the tals and xats and zodes of Martian time, presenting them to view beneath a strong crystal much after the manner of an earthly odometer.
She could only guess at the distance she had been carried for she could not believe in the correctness of the high figures that had been piled upon the record of her odometer. They seemed unbelievable and yet, had she known it, they were quite true in twelve hours she had flown and been carried by the storm full seven thousand haads.
The topographer was Lieutenant Scofield of the One Hundred and Third Ohio, educated in civil engineering, and indefatigable in collecting the data by which to correct the wretched maps which were our only help in understanding the theatre of operations. He was a familiar figure at the outposts, on his steadily ambling nag, armed with his prismatic compass, his odometer, and his sketch-book.
Henry disdained to reply, but with a long and shivering yawn relapsed into silence. In a little more than six hours we reached the Rio Puerco, and forded its roily, brackish current to a camping-place on the other side. Harry, who with daylight and warmth had recovered his good-humor, examined the odometer and reported the distance travelled to be 18.65 miles.
The odometer measured nine miles from my start. I was in the immediate neighbourhood of the Pole. I cannot say when it began, but now I was conscious of a sound in my ears, distinct and near, a steady sound of splashing, or fluttering, resembling the noising of a cascade or brook: and it grew. One minute only, swaying and nodding there, I stood: and then I dropped down flat in swoon.
On our journey to the Pole we had covered 863 miles, according to the measurements of the odometer; our mean daily marches were therefore 15 miles. When we left the Pole we had three sleds and seventeen dogs.
As I was going to Captain Bayard I observed Brenda Arnold taking the odometer from its wheel and making an entry in a note-book. Approaching her, I asked: "Why are you doing that, Miss Brenda?" "I promised Mr. Frank I would do it until he and Mr. Henry return," was her answer. "Promised Frank? Where has he gone?" "Gone to find his brother."
Then one morning, as we were at breakfast, a great big splendid Manton car my car came whisking up the drive and stopped in front of the house, and the expert they had thrown him in for a week for nothing him and an odometer and an ammeter, and a new kind of French spark-plug they wanted me to try and a gasoline tester the Mantons are such nice people to deal with in all those little ways and the expert sent in word: would Miss Hardy come out and see her new car?
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