Identifier: travelssurprisin00forrrich (find matches)
Title: The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen;
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Forrester, A. H
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Publisher: New York, James Miller
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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p its headright opposite my face, and rising up with irresist-ible force, carried me away seated on its shoulders.I instantly grasped it round the neck, which waslarge enough to fill my arms; and its wings, whenextended, were ten yards from one extremity to theother. As it rose with a regular ascent, my seatwas perfectly easy, and I enjoyed the prospect be-low with inexpressible pleasure. It hovered overMargate for some time, was seen by several people,and many shots were fired at it: one ball hit theheel of my slioe, but did me no injury. It then di-rected its course to Dover Cliff, where it alighted,and I thought of dismounting, but was preventedby a sndden discharge of musketry from a party ofmarines that were exercisins^ on the beach: theballs flew about my head, and rattled on the feath-ers of the eagle like hailstones ; yet I could notperceive it had received any injury. It instantlyreascended and flew over the sea towards Calais;but so very high that the Channel seemed to be no
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BARON MUNCHAUSEN. 127 broader than the Thames at London Bridge. In aquarter of an hour I found myself over a thick woodin France, where the eagle descended very rapidly,which caused me to slip down to the back part ofits head; but alighting on a large tree, and raisingits head, I recovered my seat as before, but saw nopossibility of disengaging myself without the dan-ger of being killed b)^ the fall: so I determined tosit fast, thinking it w^ould carry me to the Alps, orsome other high mountain, where I could dismountwithout any danger. After resting a few minutes,it took wing, flew several times round the wood,and screamed loud enough to be heard across theEnglish Channel. In a few minutes, one of thesame species arose out of the wood, and flew direct-ly towards us; it surveyed me with evident marksof displeasure, and came very near me. After fly-ing several times round, they both directed theircourse to the southwest. I soon observed that theone I rode upon could not keep pace with

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