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CONTENTS
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Introductory Fable		1
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I.	The Coffee Plantation	10
II.	Paris—Professional Balloonists—Automobiles	24
III.	My First Balloon Ascent	33
IV.	My "Brazil"—Smallest of Spherical Balloons	42
V.	The Real and the Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning	51
VI.	I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea	63
VII.	My First Air-Ship Cruises (1898)	74
VIII.	How It Feels to Navigate the Air	82
IX.	Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases	100
X.	I Go in for Air-Ship Building	114
XI.	The Exposition Summer	133
XII.	The Deutsch Prize and its Problems	153
XIII.	A Fall Before a Rise	164
XIV.	The Building of My "No. 6"	180
XV.	Winning the Deutsch Prize	190
XVI.	A Glance Backward and Forward	205
XVII.	Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope	217

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