The missing person had evidently been swept off by the sea, which had just struck the net, and it was owing to this circumstance that the lightened balloon rose the last time, and then soon after reached the land.
El pasajero que faltaba había sido evidentemente arrebatado por el golpe de mar, que, dando de lleno en la red, había permitido al aparato, aligerado de peso, llegar a tierra.