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If
Lord
John
's
behavior
at
this
time
was
strange
,
that
of
Challenger
was
more
so
.
I
may
say
that
he
seemed
to
possess
an
extraordinary
fascination
for
the
Indian
women
,
and
that
he
always
carried
a
large
spreading
palm
branch
with
which
he
beat
them
off
as
if
they
were
flies
,
when
their
attentions
became
too
pressing
.
To
see
him
walking
like
a
comic
opera
Sultan
,
with
this
badge
of
authority
in
his
hand
,
his
black
beard
bristling
in
front
of
him
,
his
toes
pointing
at
each
step
,
and
a
train
of
wide-eyed
Indian
girls
behind
him
,
clad
in
their
slender
drapery
of
bark
cloth
,
is
one
of
the
most
grotesque
of
all
the
pictures
which
I
will
carry
back
with
me
.
As
to
Summerlee
,
he
was
absorbed
in
the
insect
and
bird
life
of
the
plateau
,
and
spent
his
whole
time
(
save
that
considerable
portion
which
was
devoted
to
abusing
Challenger
for
not
getting
us
out
of
our
difficulties
)
in
cleaning
and
mounting
his
specimens
.
Challenger
had
been
in
the
habit
of
walking
off
by
himself
every
morning
and
returning
from
time
to
time
with
looks
of
portentous
solemnity
,
as
one
who
bears
the
full
weight
of
a
great
enterprise
upon
his
shoulders
.
One
day
,
palm
branch
in
hand
,
and
his
crowd
of
adoring
devotees
behind
him
,
he
led
us
down
to
his
hidden
work-shop
and
took
us
into
the
secret
of
his
plans
.
The
place
was
a
small
clearing
in
the
center
of
a
palm
grove
.
In
this
was
one
of
those
boiling
mud
geysers
which
I
have
already
described
.
Around
its
edge
were
scattered
a
number
of
leathern
thongs
cut
from
iguanodon
hide
,
and
a
large
collapsed
membrane
which
proved
to
be
the
dried
and
scraped
stomach
of
one
of
the
great
fish
lizards
from
the
lake
.
This
huge
sack
had
been
sewn
up
at
one
end
and
only
a
small
orifice
left
at
the
other
.
Into
this
opening
several
bamboo
canes
had
been
inserted
and
the
other
ends
of
these
canes
were
in
contact
with
conical
clay
funnels
which
collected
the
gas
bubbling
up
through
the
mud
of
the
geyser
.
Soon
the
flaccid
organ
began
to
slowly
expand
and
show
such
a
tendency
to
upward
movements
that
Challenger
fastened
the
cords
which
held
it
to
the
trunks
of
the
surrounding
trees
.
In
half
an
hour
a
good-sized
gas-bag
had
been
formed
,
and
the
jerking
and
straining
upon
the
thongs
showed
that
it
was
capable
of
considerable
lift
.
Challenger
,
like
a
glad
father
in
the
presence
of
his
first-born
,
stood
smiling
and
stroking
his
beard
,
in
silent
,
self-satisfied
content
as
he
gazed
at
the
creation
of
his
brain
.
It
was
Summerlee
who
first
broke
the
silence
.
"
You
do
n't
mean
us
to
go
up
in
that
thing
,
Challenger
?
"
said
he
,
in
an
acid
voice
.
"
I
mean
,
my
dear
Summerlee
,
to
give
you
such
a
demonstration
of
its
powers
that
after
seeing
it
you
will
,
I
am
sure
,
have
no
hesitation
in
trusting
yourself
to
it
.
"
"
You
can
put
it
right
out
of
your
head
now
,
at
once
,
"
said
Summerlee
with
decision
,
"
nothing
on
earth
would
induce
me
to
commit
such
a
folly
.
Lord
John
,
I
trust
that
you
will
not
countenance
such
madness
?
"
"
Dooced
ingenious
,
I
call
it
,
"
said
our
peer
.
"
I
'd
like
to
see
how
it
works
.
"
"
So
you
shall
,
"
said
Challenger
.
"
For
some
days
I
have
exerted
my
whole
brain
force
upon
the
problem
of
how
we
shall
descend
from
these
cliffs
.
We
have
satisfied
ourselves
that
we
can
not
climb
down
and
that
there
is
no
tunnel
.
We
are
also
unable
to
construct
any
kind
of
bridge
which
may
take
us
back
to
the
pinnacle
from
which
we
came
.
How
then
shall
I
find
a
means
to
convey
us
?
Some
little
time
ago
I
had
remarked
to
our
young
friend
here
that
free
hydrogen
was
evolved
from
the
geyser
.
The
idea
of
a
balloon
naturally
followed
.
