In a very short time he was out of
sight, and I have no doubt he reached home in safety. Puss, who seemed
in a great measure recovered from her illness, now made a hearty
meal of the dead bird and then went to sleep with much apparent
satisfaction. Her kittens were quite lively, and so far evinced not
the slightest sign of any uneasiness whatever.
At a quarter-past eight, being no longer able to draw breath without
the most intolerable pain, I proceeded forthwith to adjust around
the car the apparatus belonging to the condenser. This apparatus
will require some little explanation, and your Excellencies will
please to bear in mind that my object, in the first place, was to
surround myself and cat entirely with a barricade against the highly
rarefied atmosphere in which I was existing, with the intention of
introducing within this barricade, by means of my condenser, a
quantity of this same atmosphere sufficiently condensed for the
purposes of respiration. With this object in view I had prepared a
very strong perfectly air-tight, but flexible gum-elastic bag.
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