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 1 II     |         in the following terms:~“Africa is, at length, about to
 2 II     |      reach, is the very heart of Africa, and it is thither that
 3 II     |         proposes to traverse all Africa from east to west IN A BALLOON.
 4 III    |       lunatic! the madman! Cross Africa in a balloon! Nothing but
 5 III    |       reach the western coast of Africa. With it, every thing is
 6 III    |       the soil, while the map of Africa unrolls itself beneath my
 7 III    |         off the western coast of Africa, about the presumed period
 8 IV     |          to the eastern coast of Africa, is in the sixth degree
 9 IV     |       miles into the interior of Africa.~Until then, the country
10 IV     |          great central empire of Africa. There he heard of the death
11 IV     |          accomplished in Eastern Africa.~The various expeditions
12 IV     |          on the eastern coast of Africa.~Between 1768 and 1772 the
13 V      |        Promenade over the Map of Africa.—What is contained between
14 V      |          longer?—The trip across Africa would certainly be accomplished
15 V      |   advancing toward the centre of Africa?”~“Still—”~“Listen to me,
16 V      | penetrating to the very heart of Africa.”~“On foot?” said Kennedy.~“
17 V      |     those of Dr. Barth, and then Africa will have been traversed
18 VI     |          the project of crossing Africa through the air, for Joe
19 VI     |          a hunter like you, sir, Africa’s a great country. So, either
20 VIII   |          the last forty years in Africa; and the doctor related
21 VIII   |    contended the doctor, without Africa having been compelled to
22 VIII   |         only seven days to cross Africa!”~“But then you could see
23 VIII   |          as that, we could cross Africa in twelve hours. One would
24 IX     |        the southernmost point of Africa, and enter the Mozambique
25 IX     |    risked this expedition across Africa in a balloon. In twenty-four
26 XI     |          we land on the coast of Africa, we shall encounter the
27 XII    |          of the eastern coast of Africa. Dense borders of mango-trees
28 XII    |         seeing that they were in Africa. Kennedy descried some hares
29 XII    |       not enough to sweep across Africa. We want to see it.”~“Up
30 XII    |        The Latest Discoveries in Africa”), published at Gotha by
31 XIII   |        most unhealthy regions in Africa; but we shall not remain
32 XIII   |          for it often happens in Africa that some of the unhealthiest
33 XIV    | establishment in the interior of Africa, where, thanks to a south-southeasterly
34 XV     |       important point in Central Africa, is not a city; in truth,
35 XV     |       magnificent garden-spot of Africa. In its centre is the district
36 XV     |          between the interior of Africa and Arabia: they trade in
37 XVI    |   drained of its strength. Then, Africa will be there to offer to
38 XVI    |          still!”~In this part of Africa, during the equatorial storms,
39 XVII   |       explorers of the centre of Africa. Among them were a few isolated
40 XVII   |         the elephants of Central Africa are the finest in the world.
41 XVII   |       Robinson Crusoe dynasty in Africa.~The proposition went no
42 XVIII  |    rivers in the eastern part of Africa, and the sky gives back
43 XIX    |        existed, in the centre of Africa, a vast depression, an immense
44 XX     |          the southern regions of Africa, they content themselves,”
45 XXII   |           We are trying to cross Africa in a balloon, and, on our
46 XXII   |       the inhospitable shores of Africa. From the sea-coast, overcoming
47 XXIV   |       appearance of this part of Africa was, moreover, quite calculated
48 XXIV   |        of water in the centre of Africa. But, if such a lake really
49 XXIV   |         dust.~“Here, at last, is Africa, such as you pictured it
50 XXIV   |     first time that I believe in Africa, and I’m not sorry to get
51 XXVI   |        from the western coast of Africa.~On the balloon taking ground,
52 XXVIII |       the earliest travellers in Africa who brought back word that
53 XXVIII |       that the tribes of Eastern Africa fed upon raw flesh, and
54 XXVIII |      that frequent the centre of Africa, and a visit from one of
55 XIX    |         waters in this region of Africa toward the ocean. They are
56 XXX    |        of Murmur.”~“This part of Africa has, therefore, paid a heavy
57 XXX    |       had joined Major Denham in Africa, and it was not long ere
58 XXXI   |        them, that Caspian Sea of Africa, the existence of which
59 XXXI   |          away into the centre of Africa, to feed on snipe and partridge,
60 XXXIII |   eastward, toward the centre of Africa, and the interminable deserts
61 XXXIV  |  principal oasis in this part of Africa, whose fifty wells are shaded
62 XXXVII |      think of making the trip to Africa without going to see Timbuctoo.”~“
63 XXXVIII|         most important cities of Africa.”~“By-the-way,” put in Joe, “
64 XXXVIII|          all the western part of Africa near to the British possessions;
65 XXXVIII|          the northern regions of Africa. At length he entered Tangiers,
66 XXXVIII|       sickness, he had traversed Africa from west to north. Ah!
67 XXXVIII|     Denham. In 1829 he reentered Africa by the western coast of
68 XLIX   |         for the trade of Central Africa.”~The city, indeed, seemed
69 XL     |      toward the southern part of Africa was defeating his calculations,
70 XLI    |         as Senegal, this part of Africa is marked down as dangerous.
71 XLI    |          most cruel, too, in all Africa.”~“How is that known?”~“
72 XLII   |     simply to reach the coast of Africa on foot. I am a first-rate
73 XLIV   |     penetrating to the centre of Africa, we shall be enabled ere