In fact, when we left Richmond, the wind was blowing from the northeast, and its very violence greatly proves that it could not have varied.

If the direction has been maintained from the northeast to the southwest, we have traversed the States of North Carolina, of South Carolina, of Georgia, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, itself, in its narrow part, then a part of the Pacific Ocean.

I cannot estimate the distance traversed by the balloon at less than six to seven thousand miles, and, even supposing that the wind had varied half a quarter, it must have brought us either to the archipelago of Mendava, either on the Pomotous, or even, if it had a greater strength than I suppose, to the land of New Zealand.

If the last hypothesis is correct, it will be easy enough to get home again.

English or Maoris, we shall always find some one to whom we can speak.