Chapter

 1 VIII  |      During the long, unoccupied hours of the voyage, the doctor
 2 VIII  |         forty miles every twelve hours, which does not come near
 3 VIII  |     could cross Africa in twelve hours. One would rise at Zanzibar,
 4 IX    |     where the days are only nine hours and a half long—a good thing
 5 IX    |          balloon. In twenty-four hours I should have been without
 6 X     |       six hundred and thirty-six hours of aerial navigation, or
 7 XI    |          and lasted nearly eight hours. The next day, the balloon,
 8 XII   |          At the end of about two hours the Victoria, driven along
 9 XIII  |          of motion at all.~Three hours later, the doctor’s prediction
10 XIV   |    northwest during the last two hours. It was then passing over
11 XV    |     whatever of life for several hours previously, this symptom
12 XVII  |          avail myself of the two hours’ recess that Joe has condescended
13 XVII  |  elephant.~At the end of his two hours, Kennedy returned with a
14 XVIII |      send us northward for a few hours, and we shall reach Gondokoro,
15 XIX   |     course of the Nile for a few hours!”~“And down yonder, below
16 XIX   |      April, they had, in fifteen hours, impelled by a rapid breeze,
17 XXII  |       are numbered, nay, even my hours, and I have but little longer
18 XXII  | prostration, lasting for several hours, held him like a dead man
19 XXII  | continued for the space of forty hours, and, as the doctor had
20 XXII  |           said the doctor.~Three hours later, the Victoria was
21 XXIV  |        on longer than fifty-four hours—and all this was a mathematical
22 XXIV  |         calculation!~“Fifty-four hours!” said the doctor to his
23 XXIV  |        of the kind that arise in hours of discouragement, succeeded
24 XXVI  |       cylinder can work only six hours longer; and, if in that
25 XXVI  |          hands, he sat there for hours without raising it.~“We
26 XXVI  |       own thoughts; and for many hours neither of them spoke. Joe
27 XXVI  |        the sandy plain for a few hours, not in search of any thing,
28 XXVII |       edge of the oasis.~In four hours the travellers had swept
29 XIX   |         the north.”~After twelve hours of progress, the Victoria
30 XXX   |       for every thing and at all hours.~The wind drifted a little
31 XXX   |         assailants; and, for two hours afterward, he could see
32 XXXIII|     operation took at least four hours, but at length the inner
33 XXXIII|          said Kennedy, after two hours of search.~“Let us wait
34 XXXIV |          of sixty miles in three hours, without Ferguson being
35 XXXV  |  perplexing prospect, after some hours of meditation, fatigue got
36 XXXV  |          him during the last few hours, and beheld a sight that
37 XXXV  |    ground; and, in less than two hours, Joe had not a rag remaining
38 XXXV  |        for night had set in some hours before, and he fell by a
39 XXXVII|         sturdily for twenty-four hours at a stretch.~“That’s the
40 XXXVII|           and so, in about three hours, I go plump, like a fool,
41 XXXVII|         his post.~In about three hours the Victoria was crossing
42 XLI   |          of her only twenty-four hours more!”~“Ah, she’s getting
43 XLIII |       upon travelling only three hours longer.~At this moment his