Chapter
1 IX | of the variations of the wind and the inequality of their
2 XI | An invariably favorable wind had accelerated the progress
3 XII | Nopal.~The air was pure, the wind moderate, and the balloon
4 XII | their powerless fury.~The wind was setting to the southward,
5 XIII | degrees twenty minutes. The wind was blowing at the rate
6 XIII | in the air. Meanwhile the wind had suddenly died away.~“
7 XIV | motion as they sniffed the wind in the direction of our
8 XIV | ease.”~“But suppose the wind were to sweep it off, so
9 XIV | eastward, wafted by a moderate wind.~“That was an attack for
10 XIV | efforts, who knows whither the wind would have carried me?”~“
11 XIV | distance from Mdaburu. The wind fell with the close of the
12 XIV | compass, and found that the wind had changed during the night.
13 XIV | doctor, in the absence of all wind, had let the car rest upon
14 XV | there is not a breath of wind, and we have nothing to
15 XV | amazement. A light west wind was sweeping the balloon
16 XVI | being carried away by the wind, it seems to me that there
17 XVI | It’s a pity that the wind has fallen,” said Joe, again; “
18 XVI | dissolve in water, and the wind is let loose!” and, so saying,
19 XVI | thunder are continuous.~The wind burst forth with frightful
20 XVI | silk of the balloon as the wind fiercely bent it in, and
21 XVII | quest was fruitless; the wind carried him toward the west
22 XVII | God. I am looking for a wind that will take me back toward
23 XVII | undulating in the breath of the wind. The little car seemed to
24 XVIII | and at one o’clock the wind was driving her directly
25 XVIII | fast to a tree, and, the wind having fallen calm toward
26 XVIII | my friends, should the wind prove favorable, we shall
27 XVIII | length, the rapidity of the wind became excessive, approaching
28 XVIII | covered with woods; the wind freshened a little toward
29 XVIII | replied Ferguson, “should the wind hold another hour in our
30 XVIII | little to us now. Let the wind but send us northward for
31 XIX | he had to encounter.”~The wind was carrying the balloon
32 XIX | weather was fine, and the wind was blowing from the right
33 XIX | all the next morning. The wind buried itself in the lower
34 XX | Intervention from above.~The wind had become violent and irregular;
35 XX | earth. Some fine day, the wind left the seed of a palm
36 XX | Joe, to prefer a favorable wind to your team of eagles.
37 XXI | t exactly know where the wind has carried us to, even
38 XXII | little progress, and the wind seemed as though unwilling
39 XXII | activity,” said he.~“But the wind is carrying us directly
40 XXII | dangerous spectacle, for the wind with unswerving certainty
41 XXIII | weeping.~The next day the wind came from the south, and
42 XXIV | CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURTH.~The Wind dies away.—The Vicinity
43 XXIV | duration, no, should the wind leave us; and it, even now,
44 XXIV | the succeeding night. The wind, now scarcely observable,
45 XXIV | what we want now, is the wind, for without it we are held
46 XXV | we are hardly moving; the wind is afraid to blow; it sleeps.”~“
47 XXV | a fine rain, and a fresh wind to dash it into our faces!”~“
48 XXV | s to be neither rain nor wind, at least for us!”~“I fear
49 XXV | with the least breath of wind. This fog seemed even destitute
50 XXV | disappeared in the open sky.~The wind, which had been scarcely
51 XXVI | become of us!”~“Not much wind this morning, master,” said
52 XXVI | had where they were? The wind, should it rise, would blow
53 XXVI | searched vainly for a breath of wind, from the height of one
54 XXVI | to use them again.”~“Ah! wind! wind!” exclaimed Joe; “
55 XXVI | them again.”~“Ah! wind! wind!” exclaimed Joe; “enough
56 XXVI | longer, and if we get no wind, we are lost.”~The doctor
57 XXVI | Heaven sends you a good wind, you need not wait, but
58 XXVIII | waiting for a favorable wind.~Joe had conveyed his portable
59 XXVIII | oscillation to betray a breath of wind.~The doctor began to get
60 XXVIII | companions. “Turn out! Here’s the wind!”~“At last!” exclaimed the
61 XXVIII | and soon, catching the wind at two hundred feet above
62 XIX | Joe?”~“Because, if the wind fell contrary, they might
63 XIX | silk-cotton-tree, filled the wind, as it swept by, with the
64 XIX | compass, “I regret that the wind is carrying us so far to
65 XIX | tree; but a very violent wind beat upon the balloon with
66 XIX | alarming.~On the morrow the wind was more moderate, but it
67 XXX | thing and at all hours.~The wind drifted a little more to
68 XXX | of the natives; but the wind, which until then had been
69 XXX | better, but for lack of wind, the thing had become impossible.
70 XXX | came, and not a breath of wind was stirring. The aeronauts
71 XXXI | with satisfaction, that the wind was carrying them toward
72 XXXI | run with the speed of the wind?” resumed Kennedy.~“Those
73 XXXII | this region, a contrary wind suddenly swept them some
74 XXXII | feet into the air, and the wind, burying itself in the disinflated
75 XXXIII | the air.”~“But, should the wind bear us away?”~“Happily,
76 XXXIII | persistent setting of the wind in that direction, for he
77 XXXIII | mountains. The force of the wind carried the doctor farther
78 XXXIII | balloon; but at length the wind died away with the setting
79 XXXIV | A Contrary yet Favorable Wind.—The Return southward.—Kennedy
80 XXXIV | clock in the morning the wind was raging. It beat down
81 XXXIV | is far from us; and the wind is carrying us still farther
82 XXXIV | unlooked-for calm; the north wind had abruptly got the upper
83 XXXIV | indented the desert; the wind blew furiously, and the
84 XXXIV | privations.”~“I think the wind shows some symptoms of moderating;
85 XXXV | Victoria?” he wondered. “The wind blows from the north, and
86 XXXVI | bournouses puffed out by the wind. It is some cavalry exercise
87 XXXVI | Driven by a tempestuous wind, it again approached the
88 XXXVII | Aghades.~During the night the wind lulled as though reposing
89 XXXVII | care.”~With the dawn the wind sprang up again in quite
90 XXXVII | we will seek a favorable wind to carry us westward.”~“
91 XXXVII | clock A.M.; while a light wind coaxed the balloon westward,
92 XXXVIII| them once more; a moderate wind bore the Victoria toward
93 XXXVIII| were greatly relished. The wind continuing good, the doctor
94 XXXVIII| morning, the direction of the wind again changed, and it bore
95 XXXVIII| get there?”~“Should the wind not carry us too far out
96 XXXVIII| bushes that grew upon it. The wind obliterated the marks of
97 XXXVIII| three days with as swift a wind as this.”~“Have the sources
98 XLIX | the obstinate northeast wind which continued to blow
99 XLIX | travellers, driven onward by the wind of the desert, resumed the
100 XL | View of Sego.—Change of the Wind.—Joe’s Regrets.~The flow
101 XL | This persistence of the wind to head him off toward the
102 XL | actual direction of the wind was driving him along to
103 XL | unless I am mistaken, the wind has a slight tendency to
104 XLI | elongated shape, and the wind hollowed large cavities
105 XLI | speak more accurately, the wind, which was very fresh, was
106 XLI | anchors had caught, and, the wind falling as dusk came on,
107 XLII | reigned around him; a light wind shook the tree-tops and
108 XLIII | Devastated Country.—The Wind begins to fall.—The Victoria
109 XLIII | Defence with Fire-arms.—The Wind freshens.—The Senegal River.—
110 XLIII | rejoined Kennedy. “The wind is poor; but if we had come
111 XLIII | above the ground; but the wind was much stronger than before.~
112 XLIII | with a much more favorable wind, shot ahead of them, and
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