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At this point in the circumnavigatory voyage of the "Albatross" it is / only natural that some such questions as the following should be asked. / Who was this Robur, of whom up to the present we know nothing but the / name? Did he pass his life in the air? Did his aeronef never rest? Had / he not some retreat in some inaccessible spot in which, if he had need / of repose or revictualing, he could betake himself? It would be very / strange if it were not so. The most powerful flyers have always an / eyrie or nest somewhere.
And what was the engineer going to do with his prisoners? Was he going / to keep them in his power and condemn them to perpetual aviation? Or / was he going to take them on a trip over Africa, South America, / Australasia, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Pacific, to / convince them against their will, and then dismiss them with, "And now / gentlemen, I hope you will believe a little more in heavier than air?"