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Title: Through the Air to the North Pole
or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch

Author: Roy Rockwood

Release Date: January 11, 2005 [EBook #14665]

Language: English

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THROUGH THE AIR TO THE NORTH POLE

OR

The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch

BY ROY ROCKWOOD

AUTHOR OF "THE RIVAL OCEAN DIVERS," "A SCHOOLBOY'S PLUCK," ETC.

1906

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. DRIVEN FROM TOWN

II. THE RUNAWAY TRAIN

III. A STRANGE RESCUER

IV. THE AIRSHIP

V. A PLAN TO SEEK THE NORTH POLE

VI. AWAY IN THE AIRSHIP

VII. HELD BY ELECTRICITY

VIII. SURROUNDED BY EAGLES

IX. THE FROZEN NORTH REACHED

X. LOST IN AN ICE CAVE

XI. ATTACKED BY SEA LIONS

XII. A MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE

XIII. FORWARD ONCE MORE

XIV. TOSSED BY A TORNADO

XV. PRISONERS OF THE ESQUIMAUX

XVI. THE STRANGE WOMAN AIDS

XVII. FIGHTING FOR THE SHIP

XVIII. NORTHWARD ONCE MORE

XIX. A BLINDING SNOWSTORM

XX. AT THE NORTH POLE?

XXI. LOST IN THE SNOW

XXII. MAGNETIC FIRE WORSHIPPERS

XXIII. A STRANGE SACRIFICE

XXIV. SAVED BY DIROLA

XXV. ADRIFT ON THE ICE

XXVI. FIGHTING WILD DOGS

XXVII. BACK TO THE SHIP

XXVIII. ATTACKED BY THE NATIVES

XXIX. THE ESCAPE

XXX. HOMEWARD BOUND

THROUGH THE AIR TO THE NORTH POLE.

CHAPTER I

DRIVEN FROM TOWN

"Come now, you boys git out of here! No tramps allowed in Freeport while
Ezra Jenkins is constable! Move along, now, or I'll arrest ye! Here's my
badge of authority!" And a crabbed old man, wearing a faded blue suit,
with a big shining star of metal on his coat, tapped the emblem with his
club.

Two boy