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Updated: May 17, 2025
We were sadly overladen. Our party consisted of Mawson, West, Cutting, Rogerson, Willett, Blease, Angelo, Whatmough, Elmer, Owen, and Hilder the last four being our friends of the railway journey from Nish. We were thirteen. Temporarily with us also were the two little Austro-Serbian boys.
Whatmough staggered to the companion, tripped over something, and fell the length of the stair accompanied by a hard object which hit him and made hissing sounds like a bicycle pump. He was too seasick to investigate, but next morning found the ship's tortoise lying on its back and feebly waving its feet and head. Then the engines slowly ceased, and there was silence. What had happened?
"If you will say that you are afraid, we will offer you our shelter. Otherwise you can have all four policemen at the other house." The professor was afraid to say that he was afraid, so after stating that we were curious people, he went off with the guards. With great difficulty we packed in. Cutting and Whatmough were forced to climb on to the shelf and the brazier was pushed out of the room.
We lost the horses, lost every one else, and we came out again on to a hill crest. No one was to be seen. After a while the professor rode by, led by his policeman, who had been almost suffocated by laughter all day. "Teshko, teshko," moaned the professor. "Ni je teshko," we said. "But where are the horses?" He waved a hand vaguely behind him. Rogerson, Whatmough, and Owen came up.
The walls and floor were so loosely made that the wind blew through in all directions, and we called it the "castle in the air." We supped on chickens which we had brought from Scutari, and Whatmough and Elmer made a fire in the yard and got us cocoa. By this time we were all getting fed up with romantic surroundings, and wanted something more solid.
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