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It was then twenty minutes after midnight. Five or six shots had been / fired from the aeronef. Uncle Prudent and Frycollin, supporting Phil / Evans, had taken shelter among the rocks. They had not been hit. For / the moment there was nothing to fear.
As the "Albatross" drifted off from Pitt Island she rose obliquely to / nearly three thousand feet. It was necessary to increase the / ascensional power to prevent her falling into the sea.