dawn about three o’clock A.M.
The doctor took a stellar observation , and discovered that he was in the latitude of Aghades . This city , once the seat of an immense trade , was already falling into ruin when Dr. Barth visited it . The Victoria , not being seen in the obscurity of night , descended about two miles above Aghades , in a field of millet . The night was calm , and began to break into dawn about three o'clock A.M. ; while a light wind coaxed the balloon westward , and even a little toward the south . Dr. Ferguson hastened to avail himself of such good fortune , and rapidly ascending resumed his aerial journey amid a long wake of golden morning sunshine . A Rapid Passage . -- Prudent Resolves .