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My Life"

(Continued from Page 6.)

Well, I landed. I felt for a mo- ment when. I saw the ground be- heath me in the aerodrome by a pala moon and a coml dawn, that I should need floats to get down,

I landed all right, and then hop- ed that a crowd would come running out to help me find out what tho trouble was. But, of course, it was too early in the morning.

In case. It should prove fatal—you! know what I mean I had the first- man who came up to me send a wire

I began to open the parcel which I suppose he thought it was rather to my husband preparing hira for the they had given me. I saw that it mad of me. But ho could not under-worst.

Now the man who 'took the tele- had a cold chicken fa it. The stand just how I felt about the thing.

I told them to close everything, and gram was the only man who did come chicken was whole, you know, not elimbed into the little machine which out to me at first.

I He was a correspondent of Router's vivisected or cut up, if you know had acted so narvellously so far. what I mean.

got off within the ten minutes they had news agency. stipulated, and away we went for the record.

Fighting Sleep

I have only had five hours' sleep in the last

Well, I four days.

I gnawed could only do my best.

When he came back I told him I wanted to have a look at the sump and see what was the matter. Wel searched my kit, but could not find spanner which would turn the nuts holding the sump. to find one.

He ran back to the sheds and tried)

Then he unearthed a I kept putting my face out of the

Portuguese mechanic. I threw the water overboard, as window in case the state of mind 1

He ran off into the town, and there What's the good was in should be anything like a state he managed, at this early hour of the you can imagine.

I was not actually asleep at all. 1 morning, to set a apanner which did

the job. was just excited and worried. Well, that fight from there was one of the worst I have ever experienced. was really awful.

I don't think, now that it is all over, at this confounded chicken as I can give you the least idea of how though it was the choicest thing worried I was.

I was up about a thousand feet and on earth.

of water when your idens are fixed on beating your busband's record and not on starving in the desert?

Well, anyway, I struck to my course for a while, and then I took out my torch and flushed it on my instruments.

I was just going to put it out and start singing gally to myself when I happened to notice the petrol

gauge.

of_sleepiness.

"Little Genius." It I turned the put myself, to eas that actually worked. I told him while The moon was next useless, the he was in the lown to get an extra rain simply spilled down in shoots. Ifilter of some sort if he could. was able to see nothing clearly, and He did both, like the little genius I had simply to trust to my instru- that he was. While he was away we tried all sorts of tricks to tum the ments.

It is all very well to know how to nut to save time.

Actually, when we got the sump do that in theory, but it is entirely another thing to have to do in prac-open we found that, a little cleaning

done, the whole job was all right. tico. The wretched thing told me that

They had told me that if I got I had exactly one hour's sleep dur- I had only five gallona in my tank through the thunderstorm all woulding this period of repairs, and they when I should have had at least be well with me, and that the weather had wasted a good nine hours for on the other side of the storm sys-me. So again it was a question of forty-twol

flying to Mossamedos and then tem would be fine.

I saw that something had gone wrong, so I turned immediately to make my way back to Gao!

Well,

I never had much belief in through the night to Capetown, weather prophets, but these were ab- I was just beginning to feel the solutely wrong from beginning to end.least bit sleepy, but I was determin

The further I went the worse it goted that I should fly as long as my! I dived down as I went to hurry

i went through two storms, and machine would go.

I loaded to the absolute full of the without using more petrol than just let the machine do its best.

I thought of home once or twice, needed to. When I got to where

I encountered another storm nero-and of a drive I had with Jim recent banks and started off as bright as a I thought I should see the

Immediately I got up in the air, but drome there was absolutely no lightly-but never mind about that.

I stuck to the compass, or, rather, I had been through so much that i except the odd lights from some of both of them, for I have a little mas-did not give a damn. those native huts.

cot compass which I trust quite a lot. It was a long fump, that ons from and went on.

Benguella, Mamedes, and then to The moon

Then fashed my lamp on the all Capetown with a heavy machine. gauge, and I found it was dropping, had miscalculated everything up

so I was not It had gone down from over forty to now in my anxiety,

I don't know if you counting on anything.

I watched the oil gauge, but, thank about thirty. have the least idea what that means,

God, it rose to over forty at once. but it meant a lot to me.

I felt like a child who having been

three- about WAS

quarters out, and by it I could see absolutely nothing of the ground although the look of it was com- forting, You know. It gave me the idea that I was not the only person awake in the country.

1

to

No Hunger I did not know whether they had given all the little punishments was Do you Now, the commandant there had forgotten to put oil in at Duala, or to be spared the big one.

whether sand was causing trouble in know what that feels like? been awfully kind to me when

I took some of the raisins I had the Alter. had landed earlier in the day.

brought with me and some of the By lack and good guldence I got on barley sugar to make me feel nor- Well, he showed himself an abwith it. I plowed my speed so as not solute genius. 1 "revved" my to overheat the engine, and made mal.

The oil pressure held out, so that that engine over the spot where Iwonderfully good speed now

think of it thought the wretched little aero- drome was, and made as much noise

as I could to waken them below.

Presently, to my joy and relief, the lights on the aerodrome went on, and I made a landing in the darkness, toping not to come down too hard.

All went well.

I increased my speed as much as I At Mossamedes I saw the You know, when I am in the air dared.

I never feel hungry or tired. It is aerodrome and came down to fill up when I come on the ground that and rest a while. I left an hour or so after midnight I would not have all my troubles overtake me.

come down only I wanted to be sure of not running short of juice on that last lap. Well, that part of the fight which ended at Capetown was the only part that I

I began to feel just a little heady You know what I mean? I felt just a bit sick.

I suppose it was being cooped up for so long and worrying as much about what could not be helped, any way.

A Nightmare *** The rest is now like a nightmare, although I do not feel tired this very I landed perfectly, though I say!

minuto. felt awfully heavy and sicky, it myself, and the commandant

I think that time war the most aw

I know I hav

broken poor old helped me at once, I told him fol of my life. I cannot forget Jim's record, and everything in the Still those two about my petrol tanka.

now, even after a good bath and garden is lovely.

stretches of night flying were simply Together we inspected what we could of them, and then realised Then I began to strike the coast, terrible, and I am glad they are over

I could see awful,

white and done with that the men had not nearly filled colours beneath me, but I could not I cannot say how grateful I am to

them when I had told them to.

change.

'of

It was always be sure whether the white Lord Wakefield for all he has dons

His faith in me and, for me. Gosh! How I was worried about was cliff or waves on the sen.

course, in my husband, te one of the my attempt to beat Jim's record. The I was flying at no height at all commandant told me that there could just above the surface of the ground most precious things to es

It was good to feel when I land- be so possibility of my leaving that I kept having to pull at the stick night, so I had to accept his word. and jerk the machine up from collided that I had justified his confidence, promised me that he would look ing with something ahead and be because without his generosity these flights could not have been under- after the filing of my tanks, and told death us both. me to go and have a good sleep..

He

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1

I had myself to blame for all the

a magnificent little machine taken. 1 staggered off, very downhearted, he is! I still felt quite strong, al to a sort of hut-bungalow, and threw though a bit heady, and at last, fight myself on a bed and fell sleep in a ing everything ahead, I landed it

few seconds.

1.

Benguella.

carly trouble, and. I suppose, the rast was a result of that.

Still, here I am, with a few raisins

I told the commandant to wake mo I had to be awfully careful, be left, a bit of barley sugar, and no without fail in a couple of hours. He cause I was terrified of my oll pres desire for the sleep every one is urg-

ing on me. was a splendid fellow, and did... sore being a real trouble.

got away at six in the morning,

and hoped that all my troubles word

over. The weather was foul, but 1 kopi on, and I was so worried that I

did not feel the least bit tired.

I just kept up a steady 110 milos an hour, and tried my best to save ́evory mile I could, though the country beneath was absolutely hopeless as a

guide.

Hour after hour went by. I only re- member that part of the flight as 'n long-past memory. It seems years ngo now. I got to Duals. I know that there would be no option here- S'hai, Moji, Kobb, Osaka & Thama. about flying through the night, and 1 Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.was determined that, no ruatter what any one might say to me, I should fly Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

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It mean that if I took off an hour. or so after landing, about Ave in the evening. I should have six hours of black darkness. I landed just before five o'clock and took off at mix.

Without the moon, the light would be quito impossible...

Anyhow, I came down. Every one was very decent to me. I told them to all up the machine and see to it that when they had finished the tanks were absolutely Tull.

Wel Had to Beat Jim..

I told them I would By through the night no matter what they naid.

I did not feel a bit tired or anything like that. It was just a question of ried about the whole thing. fooling, worried:

This was the other aerodrome about which my husband had told me. Ho said it was tiny, and that on no account was I to take off with a full, load.

i was set on taking a risk and act-

:

ing on my own judgment. So I got them to all her up properly. They did. Then they told me that there was a thunderstorm

shead, just after who was

cannot I taki off?" I asked the commandant.

"You can if you do in the next ten minutes," he said, rather sourly.

I could see that he did not approve

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