EXCITING BALLOON ADVENTURE.
All exciting balloon adventure took place in the suburbs of Vienna recently. M. Godard, who has made upwards of two thousand ascents, went up, accompanied by three journalists, in his great balloon. The voyage, according to the aeronaut himself, was one the shortest and most perilous he had ever made. After ascending to a height of three thousand eight hundred feet, M. Godard found that the balloon was being driven along between two tremendous thunderstorms, which were raging on either side. In order to avoid imminent danger from the lighting, he resolved at once to descend. The balloon came down with, great rapidity, but it had no sooner escaped the electric fluid than it was threatened with another danger not less great. It seemed that nothing could save it from falling into the midstream of the broad Danube. By dint of great exertion, and helped by his long experience, however, the aeronaut succeeded in bringing the balloon to the ground in a wood a few feet from the bank of the river, and landing his companions and himself in safety.
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Patea Mail, 1 February 1882, Page 3
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