The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 248: what you’re looking at

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242% THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. There is asudden jump, a strange sensation of buoy- ancy entirely new to most of them, as the immense balloon, rising like a bird, heads for the starry firmament above; and Terry, holding on and looking over the edge of the car, sees several flashes far below as the baffled _rough-riders fire their guns after the vanishing globe—~ he even hears the faint reports, but the balloon con- tinues to soar upward like an eagle, and the cruel shores © of despotic Russia are left benind. comicbooks.com