The craft appeared to be flat-bottomed, and for about a third of her length amidships the upper half of her hull was covered with a curving, domelike roof of glass.
"She's an air-ship of some sort, there's no doubt about that," said the Captain, "so I guess the great problem has got solved at last.

And yet it ain't a balloon, because it's coming against the wind, and it's nothing of the aeroplane sort neither, because it hasn't planes or kites or any fixings of that kind.

Still it's made of something like metal and glass, and it must take a lot of keeping up.

It's travelling at a pretty healthy speed too.

Getting on for a hundred miles an hour, I should guess.