The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-05

| hour all Europe lay below us like a
| map.
Still we went higher. tin at last
| nc could sec all Of Asia including
China and Japan. II was really inter
esihs. was 30 occupied in looking
downward that did not roalizc, until
! we were at last fifteen or twenty miles
above sea level that my friend Smith
could not manage HIS monster. I trfea
| TO help him by opening the valve and
broke the rope. l fell backward. and
the rarofiod air, together with the
Terrible heat duo to our being 80 much
nearer the sun. overcame mo. 80 that
! lay unconscious for a tfme.
When / recovered found smtt,
lying insenslble, and tho hound quite
dead | sezed q gun and shot at Tho
gas bag Tho air was SO thin that
could not hear the report; but tho shot
mad It's effect. 1t tore holes into The
oas and wo began to descend. MIR.
smith recovered gradually. and we both
began to feel worry hungry. looked
around for food and found that tbs
! herce neat had dono US ono kindness
at least. 1t had roasted the dog to a
| brown turn
had never eaten roast dog b..
fore. but must say that II did not
taste half had. Just as wa finished our
! strange repast tho balloon LANDAU N
! 'he top or date palm. which provid-
| "a US with dessert at exactly the right
! moment After we had eaten q couple
4 OF bushels OF thcHe We felt refrcshed
enough TO climb down, and discovered
that We had landed In Arabia. we
| made our way TO Europe without any
notabie happening. I will merely men
ZION. as another Illustration OF the de-
| gree OF hent. that all the skin cana
! on iny, face In one piece. ] had ii ian
hed and made into pair Of shoes.
| which kept on day and night FOR
! fourteen years without their showing
| the slightest sign or wear
The heat that We felt on TINT
| incin ornble day reminds me OF the rr,,isa
| that took me into the Gulf stream eoma
! Years ago It Is true tina; tho weather
! happened to be more than ordinarily )
| warm while was there and his may
| have Increased the heat Of the Guif
4 stream beyond tho ordinary At any
/ rate on very sunny days the water
| always grew so hot at noon that IL.
was sufficient merely TO dip our meat
| and other food into II 10 have u thor
| ouEhly cooked
/ What surprised me the most were
the FISH that played around the shin
| IN enormous untnbe-a. quite ncrrily
and lively. only to die the moment they
/ were pulled out with line or net BY
| Tho Tina they reached tho deck they
| were well cooked and all ready TO
eat
| we were puzzled for long tirlo
| to understand how these fully cook
| cd hsh could swim and play in tho
boiling water. but the EXPLAIN ton.
] Ike the explanation OF all apparent
| wonders. was simple enough. II waa
| the force OF hibit. The fish become
accustomed To the temperature gradual
| ~ Then. wh,n they are hauled sud
! denly into the cool air. OF course the
heat strikes In. ends their lives and !,
cooks them. II
so there is nothing very marveIous
about 1t after all
''On that same voyage + had an ex-
| ccllcnt hunting dog aboard. One day
when our observations showed that we
were at last thousand miles from Z
| land. observed that the dog kept
coming to point again and again.
| told the captain that we must be near
game Of some kind. lie laughed aloud
and others Joined him. Finally I
wagcred one hundred guineas that We
| would find game within half a hour
| Scarcely had tho wager been entered /.
| be1oro the sailors. who had been fish :
| Ing. hauled In a shark OF ordinary =
| size The dog made dead point at
the sea monster, and 1 said: There
! is the gamc!'
Dear friends and hunting con,pan-
ions. when the shark was opened WEI
I, found In him six pairs of living par
fridge! The poor birds must have heen
there a long time, for ore OF them
was setting on seventeen eggs X Dur
Ing tho rest Of that voyage VIC had
fresh game constantly, as one or the !.
! ether OF the partridgcs was sure to-
! breed. ,I
/ We had a most severe storm dur
| Ing that voyage which Is worth mem
tionln4. II began with q phenomenon
| That never observed bcgore. A .trong
wind blew from the east for shree .
minute and the from west for
three minutes alternating during this
| whole night without pause With the
! dawn came mighty gale from the
lncrth. ] lasted for a Die month. We :
saw neither sun, moon nor stars during
all that time The power OF this wind
| can be better appreciated when men.
| ton that our snip did not climb to !
| Inc crest Of wave and then shoos
down into tho though. and 80 on For
| that whole month 1t was simply blown
J from crest TO crest in perfcctIy:l
[ horizontal line. This Is something that
| happens only rarely to a vessel like
| ours, that must have weighed many
thousands Of tons with her 500 men
and seventy cannon.
| When the storm was over we were
dismasted and cutie helpless. Our pro-
visions were exhausted and we were
igetting worried, when suddenly every
body shifted. Tho air had most re-
markable aroma. It was that o. roast
beef. oranges and cigars So power
full and nutritious was the air that ws
| lived on the smell alone for a whole
week. On the eighth day we sighted
land 1t was Havana.
| we landed tho next day. and hap
pened to tell some OF the tobaccD{ I