The airship was then headed for Hong Kong.
She arrived there in due time and descended on the suburbs.
Frank and the sailor alighted and going to the city they sought the American consul.
He told them that the shipwrecked crew had reached the city in safety and all had been shipped for California on the Pacific Mail steamer Confucius Kao, two days previously.
Frank was chagrined to learn that Murdock was among them.
He left the sailor to find a berth and returned to where he had left the Pegasus.
Hastening aboard he put her helices in motion and she shot up into the air.
Up she flew to the clouds, then off she went for the sea.
Frank’s friends joined him, and he explained what he learned.
“We must chase the Confucius across the Pacific,” said he; “she is bound for San Francisco.”