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1 XII | in the world instead of a desert! Believe the geographers
2 XIII | and ravines, in a sort of desert which preceded the Ugogo
3 XIV | heat, seemed, indeed, a desert: here and there were a few
4 XIV | you think the doctor would desert us?”~“No; but suppose his
5 XVIII | balloon alighted on a small desert island in thirty minutes
6 XXIII | to stay forever in this desert?”~Joe cast a despairing
7 XXIV | away.—The Vicinity of the Desert.—The Mistake in the Water-Supply.—
8 XXIV | calculated to inspire alarm: the desert was gradually expanding
9 XXIV | caravan had ever braved this desert expanse, or it would have
10 XXIV | enough to carry us over this desert.”~“We’ve made at least half
11 XXIV | stretched the immensity of the desert.~The responsibility resting
12 XXIV | the Gulf of Guinea; the desert, therefore, cannot extend
13 XXIV | flat immensity. It was the Desert!~Our aeronauts had scarcely
14 XXV | Well in the Midst of the Desert.~On the morrow, there was
15 XXV | We are right in the open desert,” said the doctor. “Look
16 XXV | up to the surface of the desert, saturated with perspiration,
17 XXVI | Degrees.— Contemplation of the Desert.—A Night Walk.—Solitude.—
18 XXVI | water in the midst of the desert!~Then it was that Dr. Ferguson,
19 XXVI | for nine days’ halt in the desert. And what changes might
20 XXVI | unchanging sight of the desert, that fatigued the mind.
21 XXVI | the eternal silence of the desert.~At midnight he came to,
22 XXVII | falling again upon the desert, formed numberless little
23 XXVIII | here in the middle of the desert.”~“I’ll be very careful,
24 XXVIII | again. If their stay in the desert were to be prolonged like
25 XIX | to leave behind them the desert, which had so nearly been
26 XXX | no lack of water, nor the desert to fear, anyhow, master,”
27 XXXI | those privations on the desert, we have encountered no
28 XXXII | the Victoria halted on a desert shore, on the north of the
29 XXXIV | crossed the Belad el Djerid, a desert of briers that forms the
30 XXXIV | Soudan, and advanced into the desert of sand streaked with the
31 XXXIV | when suddenly he saw the desert sands rising aloft in the
32 XXXIV | places yet, indented the desert; the wind blew furiously,
33 XXXIV | Lake Tchad, they saw the desert still stretching away before
34 XXXIV | be reduced to cross the desert, as those unfortunate Arabs
35 XXXIV | these trips across the desert are far more perilous than
36 XXXIV | those across the ocean. The desert has all the dangers of the
37 XXXV | he had undergone in the desert, he experienced comparative
38 XXXVI | the borders of the thorny desert, which the travellers descried
39 XXXVII | land. Good! There was the desert. ‘That suits me!’ said I, ‘
40 XXXVII | Tripoli, and over the Great Desert.”~“Oh, we shall not go so
41 XXXVII | After the barrenness of the desert, vegetation was now resuming
42 XXXVIII| remarkable incident; the desert gained upon them once more;
43 XXXVIII| winding across the open desert, “we shall arrive there
44 XXXVIII| depend when crossing the desert.~These Touareg camels are
45 XXXVIII| guide themselves across the desert, and come to the few wells
46 XXXVIII| them to cross Sahara, a desert more than nine hundred miles
47 XXXVIII| force his way across the desert of Sahara, penetrate to
48 XXXVIII| quitted this ‘Queen of the desert;’ on the 9th, he surveyed
49 XLIX | clock, the Queen of the Desert, mysterious Timbuctoo, which
50 XLIX | piercing a corner of the desert. In the environs there was
51 XLIX | onward by the wind of the desert, resumed the winding course
52 XLI | would break my heart to desert her.”~“Be at your ease,
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