Chapter

 1 III    |            should find myself on the ground in the normal conditions
 2 VIII   |          favorable inequality of the ground, at night, I shall not fail
 3 XI     |           car, which was held to the ground by numerous sacks of earth.
 4 XI     |              which had rested on the ground in perfect equipoise, began
 5 XII    |       descend a little nearer to the ground. So he moderated the flame
 6 XII    |            should settle down on the ground, which would be disagreeable;
 7 XIII   |            six hundred feet from the ground. The country was becoming
 8 XIII   |            doctor went nearer to the ground; the anchors were thrown
 9 XIV    |           but this isn’t the easiest ground in the world,” he said,
10 XIV    | shoulder-joint, fell headlong to the ground, and Kennedy leaped toward
11 XIV    |           about twenty feet from the ground, its arms and legs swaying
12 XIV    |       several of their number on the ground.~In a moment Kennedy was
13 XIV    |    ascensional force, approached the ground; the anchors ran along until,
14 XIV    |            let the car rest upon the ground, the balloon, thus relieved
15 XIV    |            was nearly resting on the ground. Joe then found it easy
16 XV     |             gradually approached the ground, one of the anchors lodged
17 XV     |     medicine-chest, descended to the ground, preceded by Joe, who kept
18 XV     |             bring the machine to the ground.~Joe leaned out with a hatchet
19 XV     |             and descended toward the ground. At twenty feet above the
20 XVI    |        slightest inequalities of the ground below; gigantic trees, arborescent
21 XVI    |         tempest might hurl us to the ground, were we to cast our anchor
22 XVII   |            the Grass.—A Night on the Ground.~About four in the morning,
23 XVII   |              t set foot on the solid ground?” murmured Joe; “it’s enough
24 XVII   |              go over a great deal of ground, and, from one day to another,
25 XVII   |          change in the nature of the ground compelled the doctor to
26 XVII   |              drop his hatchet on the ground.~The situation was thus
27 XVII   |               scrambling down to the ground by the anchor-rope.~“What’
28 XVII   |           and Dick leaped out on the ground, while the balloon, now
29 XVII   |          first he made a hole in the ground two feet deep; this he filled
30 XVII   |              the exact height of the ground and the ascensional force
31 XVII   |             to pass the night on the ground, and Joe arranged a circle
32 XVIII  |              not dream of taking the ground, since here, as on the shores
33 XVIII  |   twenty-five hundred feet above the ground.~From that elevation could
34 XVIII  |           one hundred feet above the ground. The Nile measured but fifty
35 XVIII  |            no time in sliding to the ground.~“The ladder!” cried the
36 XVIII  |            doctor, as he touched the ground.~So saying, he drew his
37 XIX    |           Should we be hurled to the ground?” asked Kennedy.~“Hurled!
38 XIX    |              precipitated her to the ground.”~“Let us hope that nothing
39 XIX    |            the moment of leaving the ground, or of alighting, and therefore
40 XX     |            skimmed closely along the ground, at scarcely the elevation
41 XX     |          though it were on the plain ground.”~“A fine new style of gardening,”
42 XX     |          trunk at the surface of the ground was one hundred and twenty
43 XX     |     rifle-ball, fell headlong to the ground.~Upon this sudden mishap
44 XXII   |              car was approaching the ground; but a few of the savages,
45 XXII   |             the car was close to the ground, the brawny Scot, laying
46 XXII   |              dashed to pieces on the ground. The doctor then separated
47 XXIII  |              to bring his car to the ground, for there was no tree in
48 XXIII  |          soon as the car touched the ground, the doctor shut the valve.
49 XXIV   |            one hundred feet from the ground, and, at that elevation,
50 XXIV   |               he saw the last rising ground gradually melting to the
51 XXV    |        fifteen hundred feet from the ground, it encountered an opaque
52 XXV    |     desperation descended toward the ground, and all three of the travellers,
53 XXV    |             The Victoria touched the ground; Joe and Kennedy put into
54 XXVI   |        Africa.~On the balloon taking ground, Kennedy and Joe awoke from
55 XXVI   |            here we are pinned to the ground, like a bird with broken
56 XXVII  |         slowly descended, taking the ground at about two hundred feet
57 XXVII  |           but he had not touched the ground ere a bullet pierced his
58 XXVIII |           two hundred feet above the ground, disappeared in the gloom.~
59 XXX    |            two hundred feet from the ground.~“Here we are!” said the
60 XXX    |             within sixty feet of the ground.~Hereupon the Governor of
61 XXX    |         three hundred feet above the ground. Not a fire or light shone
62 XXXI   |           while one of us was on the ground, the Victoria should have
63 XXXI   |           marked him; but should the ground strike me as favorable,
64 XXXIII |              sort of island of solid ground in the midst of an immense
65 XXXIV  |              could not stay near the ground without danger. It was thrown
66 XXXIV  |           was out of the question on ground completely bare of trees,
67 XXXIV  |             not an inequality of the ground! Are we then to be driven
68 XXXV   |          long, literally covered the ground; and, in less than two hours,
69 XXXV   |             him but to sink upon the ground and die.~Thus working his
70 XXXVI  |             within fifty feet of the ground, and in fifteen we shall
71 XXXVI  |             Joe fling himself to the ground. His horse, evidently exhausted,
72 XXXVI  |           about thirty feet from the ground. On their part, they were
73 XXXVII |          away and there I was on dry ground! At the end of the rope,
74 XXXVII |            me; I threw myself to the ground; then I jumped up again
75 XXXVIII|          should not be able to touch ground in these regions, infested
76 XLIX   |             only inequalities of the ground.~When the Victoria passed,
77 XL     |              want to set foot on the ground again! Do you think anybody
78 XLI    |              sinking back toward the ground. The rotundity of the covering,
79 XLI    |            was again approaching the ground.~“Let us alight,” suggested
80 XLI    |             hoisted himself from the ground, and, clambering up by the
81 XLI    |            two hundred feet from the ground, and was then in equilibrium.
82 XLI    |              the night below, on the ground.”~“But can we not descend?”
83 XLII   |              beneath him, hiding the ground from his view. The least
84 XLII   |          fire.~“Let us escape to the ground!” shouted Kennedy, “it is
85 XLIII  |              we must not fall to the ground!” and, as he said this,
86 XLIII  |             and fifty feet above the ground; but the wind was much stronger
87 XLIII  |              now almost touching the ground, rose again, amid the cries
88 XLIII  |       instant, fell again toward the ground.~The Talabas flew toward
89 XLIII  |            the latter dropped to the ground just as the balloon was
90 XLIII  |             The Victoria touched the ground several times, and rose
91 XLIII  |           aeronauts descended to the ground, and the doctor drew his
92 XLIII  |          another of the enemy to the ground.~Cries of fury exceeding