Chapter
1 V | adjective:~“‘Our’ balloon; ‘our’ car; ‘our’ expedition.”~And
2 VI | pretty shape! What a nice car! How snug we’ll feel in
3 VII | Receptacle.—The Covering.—The Car.—The Mysterious Apparatus. —
4 VII | network that supported the car was made of very strong
5 VII | of a ship would be.~The car, which was of a circular
6 VII | chests were embedded in the car in such a way as to take
7 VII | an awning to shelter the car, nor the coverings and blankets
8 VII | second balloon....... 510 "~ Car and network....................
9 VIII | to prevent accident. The car and its accessories, the
10 VIII | may light a taper in the car, and the flame will not
11 IX | been rather to direct the car than the balloon, and that
12 X | bring on board with the car several cases or receptacles,
13 X | them run down as far as the car, and lose themselves in
14 X | hydrogen gas, and of the car occupied by the passengers,
15 XI | undulated gracefully above its car, which was held to the ground
16 XI | assigned to them in the car. The supply of water was
17 XI | placed at the bottom of the car, but within arm’s-reach.~
18 XI | travellers got into their car. The doctor lit the combustible
19 XI | ropes they held it by. The car then rose about twenty feet
20 XII | were thrown out from the car and one of them, coming
21 XII | and he remounted to the car with agility. The balloon
22 XIII | and Joe reascended to the car by means of the ladder.
23 XIII | climbed briskly out of the car and descended. Joe had swung
24 XIV | place and the doctor in the car.~“What’s the matter?” shouted
25 XIV | report was heard from the car. The shot had, evidently,
26 XIV | detached the anchor; the car then dipped to where he
27 XIV | of all wind, had let the car rest upon the ground, the
28 XIV | without trouble, as the car was nearly resting on the
29 XV | remain, therefore, in the car, and keep the cylinder warm
30 XV | Joe, clambering into the car.~“What’s happened?” questioned
31 XVI | fireworks suspended from the car.~Then they enjoyed one of
32 XVII | anchors, flung out from the car, ere long began to sweep
33 XVII | of the wind. The little car seemed to cleave the waves
34 XVII | that attached him to the car.~“Get up—go ahead, old fellow!”
35 XVII | monstrous bounds gave the car several rather heavy thumps.
36 XVII | made a fearful bound; the car and balloon cracked as though
37 XVIII | flag triumphantly from his car.~
38 XIX | complete silence reigned in the car. Was Dr. Ferguson absorbed
39 XIX | killed, probably, had not her car dashed against a chimney
40 XX | leaning over the edge of the car, they saw on the open plain
41 XXI | elbow on the edge of the car, so as to keep an eye on
42 XXI | amazement, had regained the car immediately.~“Did you hear
43 XXI | arranged on the rim of the car, so that they may be thrown
44 XXI | make his way back to the car.”~Joe let himself slide
45 XXI | he stood up erect in the car, and, taking the two pieces
46 XXII | this intense gloom.~The car was approaching the ground;
47 XXII | At the instant when the car was close to the ground,
48 XXII | waist, lifted him into the car, while, at the same moment,
49 XXII | blacks is hanging to the car!”~“Dick! Dick!” cried the
50 XXII | savage that had clung to the car whirling over and over,
51 XXII | torrid heat ascended to the car, and Dr. Ferguson made all
52 XXIII | enable him to bring his car to the ground, for there
53 XXIII | the ravine.~As soon as the car touched the ground, the
54 XXIII | while to the rim of the car with one hand, and with
55 XXIII | had soon heaped into the car more than five hundred pounds
56 XXIII | rather too heavy for our car! I even hesitated to tell
57 XXIII | be done. Let us fill our car with the precious mineral,
58 XXIII | reposed, he went back to his car.~He would have erected a
59 XXIII | Upon getting back to the car, he found it burdened with
60 XXIII | desperately tossed it out of the car. The balloon rose a hundred
61 XXIV | fragments heaped up in the car—worthless to-day, but of
62 XXIV | than to quench thirst.~The car rested, during the night,
63 XXIV | the native clung to the car.~“You don’t regret, though,
64 XXV | floating in the air with its car and its aeronauts. It was
65 XXV | Climb up on the edge of the car, Joe; wave your arms, and
66 XXV | and Kennedy put into the car a quantity of sand equal
67 XXVI | the very place that the car had hollowed out there.~
68 XXVI | and they got out of the car. Each was absorbed in his
69 XXVI | minutes they got back to the car, where he took his place
70 XXVII | nothing!”~He got out of the car and scrutinized the weather;
71 XXVII | dragged himself toward the car, on his knees; he glared
72 XXVII | looked around him. In the car, the doctor, completely
73 XXVII | jutted above the rim of the car.~“Ah!” he screamed, raising
74 XXVII | sand that encumbered the car.~At length his companions
75 XXVII | hundred and forty miles!~The car was at once ballasted, and
76 XXVIII | and dragging along the car, the latter grazing the
77 XXVIII | utmost speed, and checked the car, while the balloon beat
78 XIX | might hitch them to the car, and make them tow us along.
79 XIX | rendering the position of the car sometimes extremely dangerous.
80 XXX | already whisking around the car; they were even surrounding
81 XXX | the careless people in the car! So, my friends, let us
82 XXXI | close to the lake, and the car was soon skimming its surface
83 XXXII | rending the silk, and the car seemed to sink from beneath
84 XXXII | were looking at it. The car was not two hundred feet
85 XXXII | flash, over the edge of the car.~“Joe! Joe!” exclaimed the
86 XXXIII | articles still left in the car, and in establishing the
87 XXXIII | the stock of water, of the car and its accessories, and
88 XXXIII | packed them away in the car.~On the morrow, the hunter
89 XXXIII | We shall get into our car and be off again through
90 XXXIV | be able to get into the car again.~The doctor, unwilling
91 XXXIV | their heads reel, while the car oscillated and swung to
92 XXXIV | the forward part of the car.~
93 XXXVI | observation in the front of the car, he had not ceased to watch
94 XXXVI | in the back part of the car, and be prepared to throw
95 XXXVI | standing in the front of the car, held the ladder clear,
96 XXXVIII| wetting the whole machine, car and all. This continuous
97 XLI | the hunter, looking at the car, which was already quite
98 XLI | doctor to himself, “our car will be dashed against those
99 XLI | glanced around him in the car. It was nearly empty.~“If
100 XLI | uppermost extremity; but the car was still below the level
101 XLI | presented a less declivity. The car just touched the level of
102 XLI | grasping the lower rim of the car, and running afoot over
103 XLII | throw ourselves out of the car, but simply to reach the
104 XLII | reservoirs from the bottom of the car in which they had been so
105 XLII | caoutchouc jointings above the car, but when he came to the
106 XLII | themselves at the bottom of the car and dropped into profound
107 XLII | elbows on the rim of the car, gazed attentively around
108 XLII | tree-tops and gently rocked the car, inviting the hunter to
109 XLIII | Joe, obeying orders.~The car, which was now almost touching
110 XLIII | the covering.~Ere long the car was once more grazing the
111 XLIII | must be going mad.~“The car!” was his reply; “we can
112 XLIII | cords that suspended the car; and the latter dropped
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