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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Illi robur, et aes triplex Circa pectus erat," is not to be persuaded. He will be true to "the colour"; this is his final answer, even if your arguments overcome for the time being. And you cannot help liking the man for his straightforward, self-reliant nature; he is acting up to the standard he has set himself all through life.
The thought came to me that Robur was preparing to leave this retreat forever! In fact, he could not be ignorant that the attention of the public was now keenly fixed upon the Great Eyrie; and that some further attempt was likely to be made to penetrate it. Must he not fear that some day or other the effort would be successful, and that men would end by invading his hiding-place?
Or if, by means of a screw, you drive a mass of air at this speed, you get the same result." What Robur said had been said before by all the partisans of aviation, whose work slowly but surely is leading on to the solution of the problem.
I refuse!" said the Negro, who took all these things seriously. "And why, Fry, why? You might get married to some pretty bouncing Lunarian!" Frycollin reported this conversation to his master, who saw it was evident that nothing was to be learnt about Robur. And so he thought still more of how he could have his revenge on him.
Hence if this direction had not been changed during the night this was the Gulf of Mexico which lay beneath us. A hot day was announced by the heavy livid clouds which clung to the horizon. These warnings of a coming storm did not escape the eye of Robur when toward eight o'clock he came on deck and took Turner's place at the helm.
If they did not sleep soundly it was that they did not wish to do so, or rather that their very real anxiety prevented them. In what adventure had they embarked? To what series of experiments had they been invited? How would the business end? And above all, what was Robur going to do with them? Frycollin, the valet, was quartered forward in a cabin adjoining that of the cook.
A few hours after sunrise they were sighted by a passing ship, and a boat was lowered to their rescue. Robur and his companions were saved, and so was much of what remained of the aeronef. The engineer said that his ship had perished in a collision, and no further questions were asked him.
The work was only interrupted for a moment while the elevation of the sun above the horizon allowed Robur to take an horary angle, so that at the time of its culmination he could calculate his position. The result of the observation, taken with the greatest exactitude, was as follows: Longitude, 176 deg. 10' west. Latitude, 44 deg. 25' south.
As he has become master of the seas with the ship, by the oar, the sail, the wheel and the screw, so shall he become master of atmospherical space by apparatus heavier than the air for it must be heavier to be stronger than the air!" And then the assembly exploded. What a broadside of yells escaped from all these mouths, aimed at Robur like the muzzles of so many guns!
The speed was gradually increased, and the "Albatross," heading to the southwest, returned at moderate speed towards the Chatham Islands. "Tom," said Robur, "it is about two hours and a half since we got adrift. The wind has not changed all the time. I think we ought to be over the island in an hour." "Yes, sir. We are going about forty feet a second. We ought to be there about half-past three."
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