THE HURRICANE OF 1865-CRIES IN THE AIR-A BALLOON CAUGHT BY A WATERSPOUT-ONLY THE SEA IN SIGHT-FIVE PASSENGERS-WHAT TOOK PLACE IN THE BASKET-LAND AHEAD!-THE END. "Are we going up again?" "No. On the contrary; we are going down!" "Worse than that, Mr. Smith, we are falling!" "For God's sake throw over all the ballast!" "The last sack is empty!" "And the balloon rises again?" "No!" "I hear the splashing waves!" "The sea is under us!" "It is not five hundred feet off!" Then a strong, clear voice shouted: - "Overboard with all ...
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THE HURRICANE OF 1865-CRIES IN THE AIR-A BALLOON CAUGHT BY A WATERSPOUT-ONLY THE SEA IN SIGHT-FIVE PASSENGERS-WHAT TOOK PLACE IN THE BASKET-LAND AHEAD!-THE END. "Are we going up again?" "No. On the contrary; we are going down!" "Worse than that, Mr. Smith, we are falling!" "For God's sake throw over all the ballast!" "The last sack is empty!" "And the balloon rises again?" "No!" "I hear the splashing waves!" "The sea is under us!" "It is not five hundred feet off!" Then a strong, clear voice shouted: - "Overboard with all we have, and God help us!" Such were the words which rang through the air above the vast wilderness of the Pacific, towards 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 23d of March, 1865: - Doubtless, no one has forgotten that terrible northeast gale which vented its fury during the equinox of that year. It was a hurricane lasting without intermission from the 18th to the 26th of March. Covering a space of 1,800 miles, drawn obliquely to the equator, between the 35 of north latitude and 40 south, it occasioned immense destruction both in America and Europe and Asia. Cities in ruins, forests uprooted, shores devastated by the mountains of water hurled upon them, hundreds of shipwrecks, large tracts of territory desolated by the waterspouts which destroyed everything in their path, thousands of persons crushed to the earth or engulfed in the sea; such were the witnesses to its fury left behind by this terrible hurricane. It surpassed in disaster those storms which ravaged Havana and Guadeloupe in 1810 and 1825. While these catastrophes were taking place upon the land and the sea, a scene not less thrilling was enacting in the disordered heavens. A balloon, caught in the whirl of a column of air, borne like a ball on the summit of a waterspout, spinning around as in some aerial whirlpool, rushed through space with a velocity of ninety miles an hour. Below the balloon, dimly visible through the dense vapor, mingled with spray, which spread over the ocean, swung a basket containing five persons.
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Five prisoners from a confederate prison in Richmond Virginia, an engineer, a sailor, a newspaper reporter, a young naturalist, and a black manservant of the engineer all excape together in an air balloon during a hurricane that blows them some 10000 miles; close to New Zealand. They land on an uninhabited island with no provisions, no tools, no weapons, nothing but their brains, their brawn, and their desire to live. They go about the island finding animals, birds, minerals, edible plants, coal, iron, clay, etc etc, and with the engineers knowledge proceed to set up camp and make a home for themselves with just their bare hands. However, little things happen to aide the castaways. A trunk, full of needed tools, guns, clothing and other good things is found floating in the bay close to the island. The engieer decides these mysterious little things suggest a benefactor of somekind must live somewhere on the island. They fight off pirates who try to land on the island while looking for their mysterious benefactor. The book was written in 1874 so the language is a little outdated, but the story is worth putting up with some words you will have to look up to understand.
