From the Earth to the Moon direct in ninety-seven hours and twenty minutes, and a trip round it . l we set about it ? asked Nicholl. Nothing is easier, replied Michel Ardan, who was never ata loss. We open the scuttle rapidly; throw out the instru-ment; it follows the projectile with exemplary docility; and aquarter of an hour after, draw it in. With the hand ? asked Barbicane. With the hand, replied Michel. Well then, my friend, do not expose yourself, answeredBarbicane, for the hand that you diaw in again will be nothingbut a stump frozen and deformed by the frightful cold. Really! You will
From the Earth to the Moon direct in ninety-seven hours and twenty minutes, and a trip round it . l we set about it ? asked Nicholl. Nothing is easier, replied Michel Ardan, who was never ata loss. We open the scuttle rapidly; throw out the instru-ment; it follows the projectile with exemplary docility; and aquarter of an hour after, draw it in. With the hand ? asked Barbicane. With the hand, replied Michel. Well then, my friend, do not expose yourself, answeredBarbicane, for the hand that you diaw in again will be nothingbut a stump frozen and deformed by the frightful cold. Really! You will feel as if you had had a terrible burn, like that ofiron at a white heat ; for whether the heat leaves our bodiesbriskly or enters briskly, it is exactly the same thing. Besides, Iam not at all certain that the objects we have thrown out are stillfollowing us. Why not ? asked Nicholl. Because, if we are parsing through an atmosphere of theslightest density, these objects will be retarded. Again, the dark-ness prevents our seeing if they still float around us. But in order » -41* Falir. (Ed.). THE YAPOR OF OUR BREATH WILL FALL IN SNOWAROUND US. [p. 258.] THE NIGHT OF 354 HOURS AND A HALF. 259 not to expose ourselves to the loss of our thermometer, we willfasten it, and we can then more easily pull it buck aoain. Barbicanes advice was followed. Through the scuttle rapidlyopened, Nicholl threw out the instrument which was held by ashort cord, so that it might be more easily drawn up. The scuttlehad not been opened more than a second, but that second hadsufficed to let in a most intense cold. > The devil! exclaimed Michel Ardan, it is cold enough tofreeze a white bear. Barbicane waited until half an hour had elapsed, which wasmore than time enough to allow the instrument to fall to the levelof the surrounding tempei-ature. Then it was rapidly pulled in. Barbicane calculated the quantity of spirits of wine overflowedinto the little phial soldered to the lower part of the instrum
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