When day came how should I recognize which sea we were upon, if the horizon of water and sky encircled us on every side?
Several hours passed; and how long they seemed to me! I made no effort to find forgetfulness in sleep.

Wild and incoherent thoughts assailed me.

I felt myself swept over worlds of imagination, as I was swept through space, by an aerial monster.

At the speed which the "Terror" possessed, whither might I not be carried during this interminable night?
I recalled the unbelievable voyage of the "Albatross," of which the Weldon Institute had published an account, as described by Mr.Prudent and Mr.Evans.What Robur, the Conqueror, had done with his first airship, he could do even more readily with this quadruple machine.
At length the first rays of daylight brightened my cabin.

Would I be permitted to go out now, to take my place upon the deck, as I had done upon Lake Erie?
I pushed upon the hatchway: it opened.