That coming of that aeroplane was the most striking episode of all this wonderful day.
After floating for a few seconds, the engines began to work, whilst the planes moved back to their normal with beautiful simultaneity.

There was a golden aero finding its safety in gliding movement.

At the same time the steering platform was rising, so that once more the occupants were not far below, but above the plane.

They were now only about a hundred feet above the water, moving from the far end of the Blue Mouth towards the entrance in the open space between the two lines of the fighting ships of the various nationalities, all of which had by now their yards manned--a manoeuvre which had begun at the firing of the first gun on the mountain-top.

As the aero passed along, all the seamen began to cheer--a cheering which they kept up till the King and Queen had come so close to the Western King's vessel that the two Kings and Queens could greet each other.