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 1 16|         wonderful air-ship, the “Albatross,” which he had constructed.
 2 16|      managed to escape from the “Albatross” after a desperate struggle.
 3 16|       They had learned that the “Albatross” had been constructed on
 4 16|          the equal of the heavy “Albatross.” If they had not persisted,
 5 16|        rapidity. It was another “Albatross,” perhaps even superior
 6 16|      gigantic bird of prey, the “Albatross” hurled itself upon the “
 7 16|         horizontal speed of the “Albatross,” they attempted to take
 8 16|        feet. Yet even there the “Albatross” rose above her, and circled
 9 16|         this time, forever?~The “Albatross” continued to descend, as
10 16|         inventor to pieces?~The “Albatross” descended within six feet
11 16|       you by the success of the ‘Albatross,’ show that the souls of
12 16|        United States!”~Then the “Albatross” rose under the impulse
13 16|       the last departure of the “Albatross,” I could only partly reconstruct
14 16| transformation. Then the second “Albatross” must have carried these
15 16|       island had permitted. The “Albatross” itself had apparently been
16 17|       his aerial voyages in the “Albatross.” It was a retreat probably
17 17|         knew it had been in the “Albatross,” extracted directly from
18 17|  possessed only an airship, the “Albatross?” And now, how much more
19 17|        who had been mate of the “Albatross,” began another labor. With
20 17|       must have belonged to the “Albatross,” which had been sacrificed
21 17|      unbelievable voyage of the “Albatross,” of which the Weldon Institute
22 17|         waterspout in which the “Albatross” had so nearly been destroyed,
23 17|         been too strong for the “Albatross,” might easily be evaded
24 17|        Terror” is a sea bird, an albatross or frigate-bird, which can