Excerpt from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 14: An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative, Adventure, Travel, Customs and Sport; October 1904, to March 1905 He succeeded in reaching the top of the shaft in safety, but when his air-tank came to be examined it was discovered that there was only sufficient oxygen left to have lasted him for another two or three minutes! Thus, almost by a miracle, his life had been preserved. One would suppose that such a narrow escape would have daunted a man from makinga further attempt; but Lambert knew no fear. Again he descended the shaft, journeying through the sixty feet of water and along that perilous quarter of a mile of tunnel to the door way, where he completed his task and returned triumphant. One of the most remarkable mishaps I ever heard of happened to a diver named Quick. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.