The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-01-11
:AE:R0NAU7'S TRIP IN
A ROWLING TEMPEST
Comte de La VauIx's Long TO
Be Remembered Ex-
pefIence.
~EXPECTEDTO MEETDEATH
Was Carried OUT to Set But by .
Caprice of tho Elements Again
Brought to Land and to
Safety.
PariS Cor. London Globe.

known French acrOnaut, has had many
and various adventures in his day, but
his latest one smacEs somewhat of
vaudeville. He and another aeronaut,
Nj. Jaubert, went 10 Algeria to sec tho
eclipse OF the sun and to take obserVa-
lions from their balloon, the Centaure.
The trip was most successful, and
ONE very interesting scientific data
Werc secured. The trouble came after.
When the ~aeronautS made their de-
scent the natives, thinking the aerial
monster had something to do With he
eclipse, were at first disposed to give
its passengers a hostile receptions; but
i'll the end they OVercame their fear
and aided the voyagers from the clouds
to anchor. When Comtc de La VaulX
and his companion had made every
thing fast they went off in search Of
something to eat, leaving their photo
graphic apparatus slung up to the rig
ging Of the balloon. The natives,'
they argued, are so ignorant and SUI
perstitious that they will be afraid to
touch Ii cameras" But the native
has & very strong propensity for JhteV-
tng, and SO soon as he had come to
the conclusion that there was nothing
supernatural about the balloon or its
passengers, he began to look for plum
Her. 1t did not take him long to find
it. The result was that when the aero
nauts returned to the Centaure they
found it stripped of it's Photographic
apparatus. The natives had stolen all
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himself the trouble The instruments
were not returned.
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90 pelore me were daSlreu against me
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1GdIeq d catdStioPllS a. every llloIisLl.
Inc horizon set OIL, happlly without
stllhlhs any oDStacle, II we WSf9
borne WeSlWafQ by furious gaze. Inc
night was dark. our pace was from
MY TO Sixty 1nlles an hour, aho at
3'oo we were alfeacy IN slsht o. tle
ilSntnouse Oh La iGNc.
we expected 70 De aasIeu out 10
sea, When suddenly d strange caprice
Oh the Wlnd carried US SOUTH ana Tor
a "hlie we hopea 10 keep away IRON
the COAST. But soon after we AGAIN
saw llsn.s at AVranches aila the heaEy
surge along the coast the puma
OF the waves roaring ana oashlhg
against the rocks reached our ears
MY ~o1npanioh grew pale, ana l must
say myself gave up everything Tor
lost, TOR to land among these rocks
meant certain death Tor us all, and out
to sea we could only expect snort shrlft
one / had not will