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Mysterious Island
"
Are
we
rising
again
?
"
"
No
.
On
the
contrary
.
"
"
Are
we
descending
?
"
"
Worse
than
that
,
captain
!
we
are
falling
!
"
"
For
Heaven
's
sake
heave
out
the
ballast
!
"
"
There
!
the
last
sack
is
empty
!
"
"
Does
the
balloon
rise
?
"
"
No
!
"
"
I
hear
a
noise
like
the
dashing
of
waves
.
The
sea
is
below
the
car
!
It
can
not
be
more
than
500
feet
from
us
!
"
"
Overboard
with
every
weight
!
...
everything
!
"
Such
were
the
loud
and
startling
words
which
resounded
through
the
air
,
above
the
vast
watery
desert
of
the
Pacific
,
about
four
o'clock
in
the
evening
of
the
23rd
of
March
,
1865
.
Few
can
possibly
have
forgotten
the
terrible
storm
from
the
northeast
,
in
the
middle
of
the
equinox
of
that
year
.
The
tempest
raged
without
intermission
from
the
18th
to
the
26th
of
March
.
Its
ravages
were
terrible
in
America
,
Europe
,
and
Asia
,
covering
a
distance
of
eighteen
hundred
miles
,
and
extending
obliquely
to
the
equator
from
the
thirty-fifth
north
parallel
to
the
fortieth
south
parallel
.
Towns
were
overthrown
,
forests
uprooted
,
coasts
devastated
by
the
mountains
of
water
which
were
precipitated
on
them
,
vessels
cast
on
the
shore
,
which
the
published
accounts
numbered
by
hundreds
,
whole
districts
leveled
by
waterspouts
which
destroyed
everything
they
passed
over
,
several
thousand
people
crushed
on
land
or
drowned
at
sea
;
such
were
the
traces
of
its
fury
,
left
by
this
devastating
tempest
.
It
surpassed
in
disasters
those
which
so
frightfully
ravaged
Havana
and
Guadalupe
,
one
on
the
25th
of
October
,
1810
,
the
other
on
the
26th
of
July
,
1825
.
But
while
so
many
catastrophes
were
taking
place
on
land
and
at
sea
,
a
drama
not
less
exciting
was
being
enacted
in
the
agitated
air
.
In
fact
,
a
balloon
,
as
a
ball
might
be
carried
on
the
summit
of
a
waterspout
,
had
been
taken
into
the
circling
movement
of
a
column
of
air
and
had
traversed
space
at
the
rate
of
ninety
miles
an
hour
,
turning
round
and
round
as
if
seized
by
some
aerial
maelstrom
.
Beneath
the
lower
point
of
the
balloon
swung
a
car
,
containing
five
passengers
,
scarcely
visible
in
the
midst
of
the
thick
vapor
mingled
with
spray
which
hung
over
the
surface
of
the
ocean
.
Whence
,
it
may
be
asked
,
had
come
that
plaything
of
the
tempest
?
From
what
part
of
the
world
did
it
rise
?
It
surely
could
not
have
started
during
the
storm
.
But
the
storm
had
raged
five
days
already
,
and
the
first
symptoms
were
manifested
on
the
18th
.
It
can
not
be
doubted
that
the
balloon
came
from
a
great
distance
,
for
it
could
not
have
traveled
less
than
two
thousand
miles
in
twenty-four
hours
.
At
any
rate
the
passengers
,
destitute
of
all
marks
for
their
guidance
,
could
not
have
possessed
the
means
of
reckoning
the
route
traversed
since
their
departure
.
It
was
a
remarkable
fact
that
,
although
in
the
very
midst
of
the
furious
tempest
,
they
did
not
suffer
from
it
.
They
were
thrown
about
and
whirled
round
and
round
without
feeling
the
rotation
in
the
slightest
degree
,
or
being
sensible
that
they
were
removed
from
a
horizontal
position
.
Their
eyes
could
not
pierce
through
the
thick
mist
which
had
gathered
beneath
the
car
.
Dark
vapor
was
all
around
them
.
Such
was
the
density
of
the
atmosphere
that
they
could
not
be
certain
whether
it
was
day
or
night
.
No
reflection
of
light
,
no
sound
from
inhabited
land
,
no
roaring
of
the
ocean
could
have
reached
them
,
through
the
obscurity
,
while
suspended
in
those
elevated
zones
.
Their
rapid
descent
alone
had
informed
them
of
the
dangers
which
they
ran
from
the
waves
.
However
,
the
balloon
,
lightened
of
heavy
articles
,
such
as
ammunition
,
arms
,
and
provisions
,
had
risen
into
the
higher
layers
of
the
atmosphere
,
to
a
height
of
4,500
feet
.
The
voyagers
,
after
having
discovered
that
the
sea
extended
beneath
them
,
and
thinking
the
dangers
above
less
dreadful
than
those
below
,
did
not
hesitate
to
throw
overboard
even
their
most
useful
articles
,
while
they
endeavored
to
lose
no
more
of
that
fluid
,
the
life
of
their
enterprise
,
which
sustained
them
above
the
abyss
.
