With Airship and Submarine-High Adventure

I have encountered several adventures already in this text, the first notable was the abduction of a Russian aristocrat and the forcible exchange of him for another Russian aristocrat, who happened to be innocent of the charges, imposed upon him, from a Russian prison ship; this a blatant act of piracy.

And now for another adventure, or rather a slight mishap; the professor accidently arouses a fairly large python and becomes entangled and struggles for his life. What other adventures will Collingwood conceive next?

Dr. von Schalchenberg being attacked by a 35 foot python. Image from With Airship and Submarine, Project Guntenberg, HTML version.