The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirgible

keted the land. Two forest fires were raging in this district, about fifty miles apart. Heavy masses of smoke hung over them

in a luxurious stateroom, far above the earth. The rarefied clean air made her bo

he told herself, "that oc

g and Doctor Sims stood gazing at the waste below them. "Endle

e, suddenly bobbing up at the window und

fty miles west of Yakutsk," said Mr. Hamilto

city?" as

f Okhotsk. In this part of Siberia lie the vast gold fields known as the Russian Klondike. They produce, with incredible hardship and labor, over t

ts," said Mr. Ha

e lowest and highest, in horrible proximity, sometimes in chains, the poor wretches are sent here from civilization to work the mines for a ruthless State, to labor, suffer, and die. Often the keenest, cleverest intellectual, whose only cr

no chang

endu

bad," mused Mr. Hamilton. "And this i

t ninety-five per cent of all the platinum in the world. For you, little Dulcie, and

," added Docto

ins, too. Stores of tourmalines, chrysoberyls,

ly out, year after year and generation after generation, to trick

itself forever,"

out our present position, lie vast deposits of unmined oil. Whole lakes of

ething ought to be done

e a globe-trotter, told me that he had actually seen several of those lakes of oil. He said they were a r

ay," said Mr. Hamilton. "Question i

omes, the face of civilization will have assumed so

ctly horrid country

rish pictures on the page of time. Look at the Gobi Desert, far south of us. Read o

for interest? Think of our own Roy Chapman Andrews, and what he ha

hat we have done? We have talked and talked all morning. Here

id Doctor Sim

ooked at him o

osely associated with Doctor Sims here for forty years, and having a retentive

Doctor Sims

e evening went gaily. Dulcie brought out her mandolin, and the youngest reporter confessed to a guitar. There was singing, too, and Doctor Trigg surprised everyone with a knowl

n, on the Sea of Okhotsk. They had safely gained the eastern co

laimed. "We will surely make a lot crossing the Pacific-eight hours, at least, if we have good weather, and another

hook hi

rd," he said to Red, as they later went forward to the

will be luck," sa

trans-Siberian part of the flight behind them

ie was growing very thin. She rebuked her parent for the amount of r

('Much,' said Dulcie.) and he has a good mind; an excellent mind. ('A perfectly wonderful mind,' muttered Dulcie.) He's a splendid type of the young Ame

s got brains. Has he said anything to y

ord; wha

about something to fasten on the engines that will make them do something or other a great deal better th

tent on it. In the meantime, to go back, I won't be able to find out what stuff he's made of unless I work hi

, then?" asked D

there's

, stamping, "I can't

e in to the salon, and found you at that corner table, holding h

ave a very distinguished career, and would probably fill some

"What do you do it for, anyway,

n't kid 'em along they don

he left her, "Go vamp Doctor Sims. If you can get one real compli

a dash for her parent. But he sh

room, studied the maps, then j

apan," he remarked. "We will probably spend two d

hat clip, commander. I see that they a

g over the pile of radiogram

g things up right. And there is a ground crew of five hundred Japanese sailors, specially trained. Just what they did for the Graf Zeppelin. They want to know just when to expect

luring Japan was delightful. The reporters clicked their little portables in a chorus which sounded like hail. There was much joking and laughter. Doctor Trigg p

sed over Mororan, on the island of Kokkaiddo, Japan. The

ble, down to the tiniest little Geisha girl, chattering behind her fan, the population of Tokio united in a charming spirit of welcome. Every hotel in the city was crowded with tourists, come to see the ship. The veteran Commander of Communications, with Mr. Hammond's message of acceptance of the enter

re ordered to meet her at sea and escort her in. The great hangar had been cleared for

previous successful round-the-world flight of three army planes in 1924, but the Amer

nd crew as they rehearsed for their coming task. There was the admiral, the minister of the navy, the vice admiral, and, b

less eyes searched the sky for the first sight of their splendid visitor. Afternoon came, and dragged by, and still the masses of people watched and listene

long blasts from the city's sirens sent men, women and children

ddenly as she dropped through a floor of mist, and hung so low over the city that it was easy to see the passengers crowded at the wi

r. Then graciously she circled, and crossing the center of the city, sailed across

circle, her attendant seaplanes following, then descended. The ground crew rushed

luggage was put in cars which were to take them to Tokio, where rooms were reserved for all the passengers and officers at the Imperial Hotel. Dulcie clung close to Doctor Trigg, with Red Ryan as a bulwark on the other side,

ed that they were to enter. When they were comfortably seated, and the door shut, th

out of the sea, and lanterns twi

back on the luxurious cushions. "This is certainly

ha, Miss

he front seat, where he sat beside the chauffeur. "They ar

ly. "That man may speak English. Any

e man at the wheel did not flicker an eyelid

ped the little Japanese-English phrase book in his hand. "I had the pleasure of speaking to the young man in his native tongue. I wish you had noticed the su

say, doctor?

ertainly at t

ght is so bad. Can you read it? It is

nd looked. She could well imagine t

her," was the translation beneath the phoneti

t too smart for word