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 1 I      |         person as Dr. Ferguson?” exclaimed another voice, with a malicious
 2 III    | Telegraph.~“Merciful Heaven!” he exclaimed, “the lunatic! the madman!
 3 III    |     person.~“Dick! you here?” he exclaimed, but with no great expression
 4 III    |      farther on.”~“There it is!” exclaimed Kennedy, with a shrug. “
 5 VIII   |          t—belong to me.”~“You!” exclaimed every body, “don’t you intend
 6 IX     |        amazement.~“To the moon!” exclaimed Joe, “To the moon! pooh!
 7 XI     |       their heads.~“My friends!” exclaimed the doctor, standing up
 8 XIII   |          balloon is a paradise!” exclaimed Kennedy, feeling much better
 9 XIII   |      dinner.”~“Off to the hunt!” exclaimed Kennedy, joyously.~He climbed
10 XIV    |         snow.~“A splendid shot!” exclaimed the hunter. “It’s a very
11 XIV    |          the air.~“What’s that?” exclaimed Joe.~“It’s my rifle, I know
12 XIV    |    Kennedy.~“Good God!” suddenly exclaimed Joe.~“What do you see?”~“
13 XVI    |        What a sporting country!” exclaimed Dick, unable longer to restrain
14 XVI    |          equator.”~“Look there!” exclaimed Kennedy, suddenly, “see
15 XVI    |          have delayed too long,” exclaimed the doctor; “we must now
16 XVII   |       high grass.~“We are fast!” exclaimed Joe.~These words had scarcely
17 XVII   |       dead.~“His tusk’s broken!” exclaimed Kennedy—“ivory too that
18 XVIII  |          on the right track!” he exclaimed. “To-day or never we shall
19 XVIII  |      with eager eyes.~“Look!” he exclaimed, “look, my friends! the
20 XVIII  |    cascade mentioned by Debono!” exclaimed the doctor.~The basin of
21 XVIII  |          river.~“Four trees!” he exclaimed; “look, down there!” Sure
22 XX     |         What magnificent trees!” exclaimed Kennedy. “I never saw any
23 XX     |         a solitary tree, and Joe exclaimed, as he caught sight of it:~“
24 XX     |      horizon.~“They are eagles!” exclaimed Kennedy, after reconnoitring
25 XX     |       Let us rise out of range,” exclaimed the doctor; “there must
26 XXI    |            The savage wretches!” exclaimed Joe, trembling with indignation. “
27 XXI    |         they are murdering him!” exclaimed Kennedy. “Our interference
28 XXII   |         A missionary! a priest!” exclaimed Joe.~“Poor, unfortunate
29 XXII   |       deliverers.~“He is alive!” exclaimed Ferguson. “God be praised!
30 XXII   |        and among these savages!” exclaimed Kennedy with amazement.~“
31 XXIII  |        The infamous scoundrels!” exclaimed Joe, grinding his teeth,
32 XXIII  |     under him.~“My God! my God!” exclaimed the dying apostle, “have
33 XXIII  |       gold-mine!”~“A gold-mine!” exclaimed Kennedy and Joe in one breath.~“
34 XXV    |         the sky.~“By St. James!” exclaimed Kennedy, in turn, “why,
35 XXV    |          distance.~“Palm-trees!” exclaimed Ferguson; “why, then there’
36 XXVI   |        long, however, before Joe exclaimed:~“I’m choking, and the heat
37 XXVI   |        again.”~“Ah! wind! wind!” exclaimed Joe; “enough to carry us
38 XXVII  |          give up to despair?” he exclaimed, in agony.~Joe did not open
39 XXVII  | energetic hope.~“The simoom!” he exclaimed.~“The simoom!” repeated
40 XXVII  |  confronted him.~“Another lion!” exclaimed Joe.~“A lioness, rather,”
41 XXVIII |          s the wind!”~“At last!” exclaimed the doctor, eying the heavens. “
42 XIX    |          magnificent elephants!” exclaimed Kennedy. “Is there no way
43 XXXII  |         making for us?”~“Birds?” exclaimed the doctor, snatching his
44 XXXII  |    itching to let them have it!” exclaimed Kennedy.~“No, Dick; not
45 XXXII  |        aeronauts.~“We are lost!” exclaimed Ferguson, glancing at the
46 XXXII  |          of the car.~“Joe! Joe!” exclaimed the doctor, horror-stricken.~
47 XXXII  |        part of the lake.~“Lost!” exclaimed the sportsman, with a gesture
48 XXXVI  |       and a few minutes later he exclaimed:~“They are Arabs, galloping
49 XXXVI  |         fugitive.”~“A fugitive!” exclaimed the doctor, growing more
50 XXXVI  |         It is he, doctor!”~“He!” exclaimed Ferguson with emotion.~“
51 XXXVI  |         holds out!”~“Great God!” exclaimed Kennedy, suddenly.~“What
52 XXXVI  |          the party.~“Attention!” exclaimed the doctor to Kennedy.~“
53 XXXVII |   gallant friend—our preserver!” exclaimed Kennedy, cordially.—“How
54 XXXVIII|          hydrogen.”~“The deuce!” exclaimed Kennedy with concern; “I
55 XLIX   |          Mysteries of Udolpho’!” exclaimed the doctor. “Ann Radcliffe
56 XLIX   |      districts.~“There’s Kabra!” exclaimed the doctor, joyously; “there
57 XLI    |         there they are, indeed!” exclaimed the doctor, after having
58 XLIII  |     crossed the hill, the doctor exclaimed: “The river! the river!
59 XLIII  |      accent of undaunted daring, exclaimed—~“All is not over!”~“I knew
60 XLIII  |          hot air!”~“Ah, doctor,” exclaimed Kennedy, “you are, indeed,
61 XLIII  |         Senegal.~“Dr. Ferguson!” exclaimed the lieutenant.~“The same,