The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 253: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. RAT wondering eyes, and they gaze in awe us slowly the mists disperse and the grand panorama is spread out below. Fa (ffs There is the. Baltic, showing the full shape of Riga Gulf, and on the other side the undulating surface of the land, though at this great height mountains may appear as low foothills. Terry, with the professor’s. powerful fieldglasses, has a magnificent view such as is vouchsafed to but few favored individuals here below. The aeronaut has not started without some prepara- tion looking toward their creature comfort, and under his. direction poor Pekoe Tay, who seems greatly awed by his remarkable flight through space, pulls out quite a decent ham per, which proves to contain a fair amount of at least palatable food. Upon examination they find the earth seems to be drawing nearer, and the professor knows they are falling. ; Te This might be a serious matter, since the city of Riga is just ahead, and doubtless their presence in the sky has already excited more or Jess attention; but there isa | remedy which the aeronaut can use if necessary should it come to the worst. Thinking to give them a spectacle such as they will never forget, the professor delays applying this remedy, comicbooks.con