It was certainly a lucky circumstance for the settlers in Lincoln Island that the balloon, after having made its last bound into the air, had fallen on the island and thus given them the opportunity of finding it again, whether they kept the case under its present form, or whether they wished to attempt another escape by it, or whether they usefully employed the several hundred yards of cotton, which was of fine quality.
Los colonos podían conservarlo, si querían intentar una nueva evasión por los aires, o emplear fructuosamente aquellos centenares de varas de tela de algodón de excelente calidad, después de quitarle el barniz.