The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 255: what you’re looking at

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THE Gini, FROM HONG-KONG, 240 ig jattisoned—if such an expression can be applied, to an - fir ship as well as one that. plows, the ocean—to send them shooting upward. Pt of + oAafother bomb follows the first, ‘but to their intense Joy it bursts below them. That danger at least is of the past, but the anxiety has been so severe that their faces show white enough as they turn to silently shake hands in congratulation over the narrow escape. ‘Riga gradually grows dim in the distance. The favoring northeast breeze continues to waft them on their course. Truly. Heaven is kind. A change of even one point would turn them out over the great sea that“hangs as far as the eye can reach to the west, ‘though presently ‘they seeth to be leaving it again as Shey start across the peninsula stretching out beyond Riga Gulf. .- Hours ensue. . | Still hopeful, they await the report of their guide. The German border must be near at hand. They can with the glass make out some’of_the earthworks which the ever-watchful Russians have thrown up to guard “@painst an invasion. ~~ --Onee Napoleon swept his way with a victorious army over this frontier, and marched to Moscow: They do not -ifean + that such a feat will ever be accomplished again. cComicbooks.com