The sons and daughters of Indegatus had become so well instructed in the art of propagating and training falcons¹, and withal so much interested under the direction of the volantaphs, that little danger was apprehended³ of another interruption in the supply. When all the preliminaries required for the voyage across the Atlantic had been well matured, Soartus, with a fleet of five well equipped falcons, and fifty giantesco companions with their families started from Manicul? on their adventurous⁵ flight, and on the evening of the third day arrived at Corvo without accident, and were overjoyed, in their descent to perch⁸ on the Corcovado, to observe signals of welcome as if their coming had been anticipated by premonition. In explanation, after a joyful⁹ welcome, the Corcovadians said, that a watch had been kept constantly on the alert in expectation of their reappearance, during the interval¹⁰ of the many centuries which had elapsed since the last falcon² departure. From whatever cause the delay, their confidence had grown in strength, that it would be overcome in time by the enterprise of their parentcedors.

This reunion of the Manatitlans with their Corcovadian colonistic outposts occurred on or about the 17th day of August, 1071 of your era. The voyage had been well sustained by the novice¹² falcons, notwithstanding their recently acquired art of taking flying fish, and feeding while beating support with their wings under the favoring aid of the parachute. But 194hunger is an apt teacher of method with available means for its appeasement¹⁵. The first warning the aeronauts received of their near approach to the land of their destination was the invasion from the windward of a

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