Teuta did not show the smallest sign of fear or even uneasiness, though this was the first time she had even seen an aeroplane at work.

She proved to be an admirable passenger for an airship.

She stayed quite still, holding herself rigidly in the position arranged, by the cords which I had fixed for her.
When I had trued my course by the landmarks and with the compass lit by the Tiny my electric light in the dark box, I had time to look about me.
All seemed quite dark wherever I looked--to land, or sea, or sky.

But darkness is relative, and though each quarter and spot looked dark in turn, there was not such absolute darkness as a whole.

I could tell the difference, for instance, between land and sea, no matter how far off we might be from either.