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Crossing the strait -- The Mrima -- Dick's remark and Joe's proposition -- A recipe for coffee-making -- The Uzaramo -- The unfortunate Maizan -- Mount Duthumi -- The doctor's cards -- Night under a nopal.
The air was pure, the wind moderate, and the balloon ascended almost perpendicularly to a height of fifteen hundred feet, as indicated by a depression of two inches in the barometric column.