The aerial age : a thousand miles by airship over the Atlantic Ocean; airship voyages over the Polar Sea, the past, the present and the future of aerial navigation (1911)
Wellman, Walter, 1858- · New York : A.R. Keller · leaf 132
,we crept into our sleeping-bags at six oclock,with orders for breakfast at three in the morn-ing and an early start. At midnight we werearoused by the ominous sound of ice crushingagainst ice, accompanied by a slight jarring ofthe frozen crust Avhich lay between us and thesea. In an instant all… … The steel car of the Airship America — 1907. IX AX ICE-QUAKE 105 the tent out of the hlast. But in two or threeseconds there came another movement of theice; another low, sullen, rumbling sound. A crack had opened directly under our sleep-ing-bags, and in its black depths we could hearthe waters…
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