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"
Land
!
land
!
"
The
balloon
,
which
the
wind
still
drove
towards
the
southwest
,
had
since
daybreak
gone
a
considerable
distance
,
which
might
be
reckoned
by
hundreds
of
miles
,
and
a
tolerably
high
land
had
,
in
fact
,
appeared
in
that
direction
.
But
this
land
was
still
thirty
miles
off
.
It
would
not
take
less
than
an
hour
to
get
to
it
,
and
then
there
was
the
chance
of
falling
to
leeward
.
An
hour
!
Might
not
the
balloon
before
that
be
emptied
of
all
the
fluid
it
yet
retained
?
Such
was
the
terrible
question
!
The
voyagers
could
distinctly
see
that
solid
spot
which
they
must
reach
at
any
cost
.
They
were
ignorant
of
what
it
was
,
whether
an
island
or
a
continent
,
for
they
did
not
know
to
what
part
of
the
world
the
hurricane
had
driven
them
.
But
they
must
reach
this
land
,
whether
inhabited
or
desolate
,
whether
hospitable
or
not
.
It
was
evident
that
the
balloon
could
no
longer
support
itself
!
Several
times
already
had
the
crests
of
the
enormous
billows
licked
the
bottom
of
the
net
,
making
it
still
heavier
,
and
the
balloon
only
half
rose
,
like
a
bird
with
a
wounded
wing
.
Half
an
hour
later
the
land
was
not
more
than
a
mile
off
,
but
the
balloon
,
exhausted
,
flabby
,
hanging
in
great
folds
,
had
gas
in
its
upper
part
alone
.
The
voyagers
,
clinging
to
the
net
,
were
still
too
heavy
for
it
,
and
soon
,
half
plunged
into
the
sea
,
they
were
beaten
by
the
furious
waves
.
The
balloon-case
bulged
out
again
,
and
the
wind
,
taking
it
,
drove
it
along
like
a
vessel
.
Might
it
not
possibly
thus
reach
the
land
?
But
,
when
only
two
fathoms
off
,
terrible
cries
resounded
from
four
pairs
of
lungs
at
once
.
The
balloon
,
which
had
appeared
as
if
it
would
never
again
rise
,
suddenly
made
an
unexpected
bound
,
after
having
been
struck
by
a
tremendous
sea
.
As
if
it
had
been
at
that
instant
relieved
of
a
new
part
of
its
weight
,
it
mounted
to
a
height
of
1,500
feet
,
and
here
it
met
a
current
of
wind
,
which
instead
of
taking
it
directly
to
the
coast
,
carried
it
in
a
nearly
parallel
direction
.
At
last
,
two
minutes
later
,
it
reproached
obliquely
,
and
finally
fell
on
a
sandy
beach
,
out
of
the
reach
of
the
waves
.
The
voyagers
,
aiding
each
other
,
managed
to
disengage
themselves
from
the
meshes
of
the
net
.
The
balloon
,
relieved
of
their
weight
,
was
taken
by
the
wind
,
and
like
a
wounded
bird
which
revives
for
an
instant
,
disappeared
into
space
.
But
the
car
had
contained
five
passengers
,
with
a
dog
,
and
the
balloon
only
left
four
on
the
shore
.
The
missing
person
had
evidently
been
swept
off
by
the
sea
,
which
had
just
struck
the
net
,
and
it
was
owing
to
this
circumstance
that
the
lightened
balloon
rose
the
last
time
,
and
then
soon
after
reached
the
land
.
Scarcely
had
the
four
castaways
set
foot
on
firm
ground
,
than
they
all
,
thinking
of
the
absent
one
,
simultaneously
exclaimed
,
"
Perhaps
he
will
try
to
swim
to
land
!
Let
us
save
him
!
let
us
save
him
!
"
Those
whom
the
hurricane
had
just
thrown
on
this
coast
were
neither
aeronauts
by
profession
nor
amateurs
.
They
were
prisoners
of
war
whose
boldness
had
induced
them
to
escape
in
this
extraordinary
manner
.
