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 1 I      |       disposition of the meeting,” replied Sir Francis.~“Let him come
 2 I      |          we’d have to invent one!” replied a facetious member of this
 3 III    |              As for difficulties,” replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, “
 4 V      |               I have ascended it,” replied the Scotchman, with docility.~“
 5 VI     |          much.”~“Useless, my boy!” replied the doctor. “You may eat
 6 VIII   |        face of the country.”~“Ah!” replied the doctor, “if I am master
 7 VIII   |           It has happened before,” replied Ferguson.~“And the balloon
 8 VIII   |           the sport!”~“Gentlemen,” replied the hunter, stammering with
 9 X      |   dangerous.”~“What matters that,” replied the doctor, “provided that
10 XI     |           Nothing is more simple,” replied the consul. “You observe
11 XII    |          Let us eat a bite, then,” replied Kennedy.~“Now, gentlemen,”
12 XII    |          them worship away, then,” replied the doctor, “but at a distance.
13 XII    |      forest!”~“Those are baobabs,” replied Dr. Ferguson. “See, there’
14 XIII   |           It leads to it, anyhow!” replied Joe, quite gravely.~It was
15 XIV    |          re broiling, to be sure!” replied Dick.~“Not the least in
16 XIV    |         There are very few trees,” replied the hunger.~“Never mind,
17 XV     |         The sorcerer, in his turn, replied that the sultan, the “mwani,”
18 XV     |             rifle in hand.~“Look!” replied the doctor, pointing to
19 XV     |           he.~“No; wait a moment,” replied the doctor.~“But this black?”~“
20 XV     |             inquired Joe.~“Oh no,” replied the doctor, “we’ll let him
21 XVI    |             An old half-dead sot,” replied the doctor, “whose loss
22 XVI    |       saturated with electricity,” replied the doctor; “every living
23 XVI    |            I can manage to do so,” replied the doctor, “I will turn
24 XVIII  |         which the lake is dotted,” replied the doctor, “are nothing,
25 XVIII  |             and infallible proof,” replied Ferguson, “should the wind
26 XX     |          the trunk of a fig-tree,” replied the doctor, “on which there
27 XX     |          been seriously proposed,” replied the doctor, “but I think
28 XXI    |       place as this.”~Dick and Joe replied with signs of assent, and
29 XXII   |         black villain leaving us!” replied the doctor, tranquilly,
30 XXII   |        Saved!” he with a sad smile replied in English, “saved from
31 XXII   |        dying!” said Kennedy.~“No,” replied the doctor, bending over
32 XXII   |      doctor.~“Better, perhaps,” he replied. “But you, my friends, I
33 XXII   |           are English travellers,” replied Ferguson. “We are trying
34 XXII   |     carrying us directly over it,” replied Kennedy.~“Very well, we
35 XXIII  |              You must still hope,” replied Kennedy. “This is but a
36 XXIII  |        night?”~“Death is at hand,” replied the missionary, “I know
37 XXIII  |      affairs?”~“All that is true,” replied Joe, “but gold! Mr. Kennedy,
38 XXIII  |            he, at last.~“Keep on!” replied the doctor.~“It’s going
39 XXIV   |       Thanks, my gallant friends!” replied the doctor, with much real
40 XXVI   |           Scot.~“We had to do so,” replied the doctor, gravely.~His
41 XXVI   |         whatever of that?”~“Well,” replied the doctor, “I think that
42 XXVI   |            aloud. Not even an echo replied, and his voice died out
43 XXVIII |         went mad!”~“My dear Dick,” replied the doctor, “had it not
44 XXVIII |            not to set it on fire,” replied the doctor, “so that others
45 XXXII  |            spyglass.~“I see them,” replied Kennedy; “there are at least
46 XXXIII |        grant it as you say, Dick!” replied the doctor, with much emotion. “
47 XXXIV  |          entirely at your orders,” replied the hunter; “let us start!”~
48 XXXIV  |             It is but a few days,” replied the sportsman, “since we
49 XXXIV  |          will follow you, doctor,” replied the hunter, with emphasis. “
50 XXXIV  | circumstance.~“It matters little,” replied the doctor, “the important
51 XXXIV  |          satisfied, I am content,” replied the Scot, “but Heaven grant
52 XXXVII |            best way to settle it,” replied Joe, “is to say nothing
53 XXXVIII|        vast solitude.~“The Arabs,” replied Dr. Ferguson, “are endowed
54 XXXVIII|           asked Joe.~“Long since,” replied the doctor. “The exploration
55 XL     |            Yes, and a famous one,” replied Kennedy.~“I never saw the
56 XL     |         impossible to prevent it,” replied Ferguson. “Sometimes the
57 XLI    |           little—some fifty feet,” replied the doctor, who kept his
58 XLI    |    stopping-place,” said he.~“Ah!” replied Kennedy, “you have made
59 XLII   |           see how we can do that?” replied Kennedy, anxious about his
60 XLIII  |         things at the right time!” replied Joe. “One gets out of scrapes
61 XLIII  |          safe.”~“Perfectly, Dick,” replied Ferguson; “but we must not
62 XLIII  |              asked Kennedy.~“Yes!” replied the doctor.~“The mischief!”
63 XLIII  |           are certain to take us,” replied the doctor; “and, they will
64 XLIII  |       lieutenant.~“The same, sir,” replied the doctor, quietly, “and
65 XLIV   |      orders!” the latter instantly replied.~The Englishmen were escorted