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When a copter came again a week later, it was not the same flier or / the same crew. The bag of food and water was dropped from a different / height. The copter hovered until it saw both Jorgenson and Ganti. Then / it went away.
They set to work again on seaweed hauled from the sea, and leaves / smoothed over each other on suitable surfaces of rock. Stems up to four / and five inches in diameter to be straightened out and almost dried to / seem rotor-shafts, and lesser stems to make a framework. The mockup / was tied together with string. They finished it the night before the / copter was due again, and they practiced with their bits of cloth and / the stones until the light ended. They practiced again at day-break, / but when the helicopter came across the sea they were nowhere visible.