Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . e to telegraph to the German Embassy accordingto our original plan, and we therefore asked the authorities at BALLOONING AS A SPORT. 209 Grybow to instruct the magistrate who had arrested us tothe effect that he was to let us go and hand over to us allour goods andchattels. I thereuponbegan the returnjourney, and waspersuaded by myguide to spendthe night at hishouse, which wasin a wood at ashort distancefrom the highroad. The kit-chen of his housewas occ
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . e to telegraph to the German Embassy accordingto our original plan, and we therefore asked the authorities at BALLOONING AS A SPORT. 209 Grybow to instruct the magistrate who had arrested us tothe effect that he was to let us go and hand over to us allour goods andchattels. I thereuponbegan the returnjourney, and waspersuaded by myguide to spendthe night at hishouse, which wasin a wood at ashort distancefrom the highroad. The kit-chen of his housewas occupied bya variety of ani-mals, and theother apartmentwas of the natureof a bed-sitting-room for theentire family,which includedchildren, par-ents, and grand-parents. Amidsuch surround-ings, I was onlyable to eat acouple of eggs, though in reality I was very hungry. Violent gesticulationsfollowed, and I was ultimately led to understand that this hos-pitality must be paid for on the spot, though the sum demandedseemed somewhat out of proportion to the benefits received—atleast so I thought. A very small room, ordinarily occupied bya. p. Fig. 129.—Water anchor for balloon.(From Die Umschau.) 210 AIRSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. the head of the family, was assigned to me as a bedroom, and Iwas invited to retire. So I laid myself on the bed in full uniformwith my sword at a convenient distance, as I could not helpfeeling that the continued whispers of father and son were notreassuring. The situation was certainly not very was in a shanty, away from the high road, in the middle ofthe Carpathians, among people who looked almost like a word of their language could I understand. They probablyknew I had some money about me, and my sleepy head was soonfull of all the highwaymen of whom I had ever heard. Whatadded to my suspicions was the fact that every now and thenthe father came to the curtain, which served as the door, andpeeped in to see whether I was asleep.
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