The machine they ore using is a Night monoplane, powered with inverted engine, and has a cruising range of some 70 to 800 miles, Tt has just enough room for the two avia. tors and their hi and Captain Chichester is quite confident of jis capabilities, As an example of the reliance hie places in it, it may be mentioned that on the' dight from Hongkong to Foochow the Puss Moth flew 260 miles out to sea, in order to avoid bad weather, On the way hero on Aug. 5, as a test, the engine way shut off when they were some Afteen miles from Shanghai, 'They glided the rest of the way, and still had 1,000 feet of altitude when they arrived over the city. Pothaps the most dangerous Part of the ight so far was over the 'Timor Sea, which Caplain Chichester said was' "easy, very easy." Mr. Herrick concurred. 'The easy flight was some 525 miles, most of it over water, with almost' certain death It the gallant little engine stopped.
During the course of the light so far, Captain Chichester has written some 05,000 words for Australian, American, and European popers, With him he always carries a pad of paper, a bottle of ink, and his favour He quill pen. He is, incidentally, the} author of two books, with another ready for publication, while he ex: pects {0 find enough material on his Present flight to write a fourth, Australia, "they flew some hundreds of mites over wild bush country, inhabited amy by ab origin: als, the' "most primitive men in the work" Just before starting out on their fight, they learned of an ineldent concerning a man who had gone out into this wild country a little way to hunt dingoes.
He was found later, dea around him were seven dead aborigines. Those who found him examined the scene. and came to the conclusion that the man had been speared while short way from his camp. With the spear still in him, he dragged his way back, got out some arsenic that he had with him, and with it pol-soned all the food in camp. Hence the dend aborigines. "A Jolly good show!" commented Captain Chichester.
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