"Miss Markham, may I, on behalf of the city of New York, extend to you, a sincere welcome and our congratulations on your splendid flight across the ocean."

　　"Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. Thank you so much."

　　Nine years after Lindbergh, and going in the other direction, his Spirit of Saint Louis, soloed New York to Paris, Beryl Markham, thirty-four years old, had flown seventeen of the twenty-one and a half hours in fog and darkness, with no fuel gauge, no radio, no idea where she was most of the time, to crash land, after the engine of her monoplane died in a bog on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The next day, she was being cheered in New York.

　　"It was a hard battle against the elements above the ocean, fog and storm, but pluck and endurance crowned one of the most grueling flights on record."

　　"I am so pleased to have got here; I only wish I could come in my own machine."

　　"And now, onto a New York hotel, to be interviewed by a movie waker, Mrs. Markham, just what were you thinking about while flying through all that fog and storm?"

　　"Well, my one thought and ambition was to get to America."

　　"When above the sea, what did you eat or drink?"

　　"I didn't have anything until the last half hour when I had a taste of brandy."

　　"Just one?"

　　"No, two, I'm afraid."

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