Chapter

 1 Note   |                PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.~“Five Weeks in a Balloon” is,
 2 I      |   handsome amount of two thousand five hundred pounds. The sum
 3 III    |        announced his arrival with five good, hearty, sounding raps
 4 IV     |      eighteen centuries only from five to six degrees, or from
 5 V      |   received a subsidy of more than five thousand pounds, and the
 6 VII    |       surface, weighed only about five hundred and ten pounds,
 7 VIII   |        furnaces began to roar; at five, the anchors were weighed,
 8 X      |         Experiments.—The Doctor’s Five Receptacles.—The Gas Cylinder.—
 9 X      |         have understood. They are five in number.~“The first contains
10 XI     | preparations were concluded about five o’clock in the evening,
11 XII    |           keep at an elevation of five or six hundred feet.”~“That
12 XIII   |         ascend to an elevation of five thousand feet.”~“Shall we
13 XIV    |      deviations, travelled nearly five hundred geographical miles.
14 XV     |          of the “kilindo,” a drum five feet high, hollowed out
15 XVII   |       waterproof.~It was now only five days since our travellers
16 XVIII  |           the Arms of England.~At five o’clock in the morning,
17 XVIII  |           his map, “and less than five miles from the point reached
18 XIX    |  mountain-peak, the doctor, about five o’clock, gave the signal
19 XXII   |         without news for the last five years!”~“Five years! alone!
20 XXII   |        for the last five years!”~“Five years! alone! and among
21 XXIII  |     heaped into the car more than five hundred pounds of stones,
22 XXIV   |  temperature became scorching. At five o’clock in the morning,
23 XXV    |           rose to an elevation of five hundred feet, but it had
24 XXVI   |           hundred feet to that of five miles; his starting-point
25 XXVI   |         north latitude, or nearly five hundred miles from Lake
26 XIX    |         in the United Kingdom.~At five o’clock the Victoria, sheltered
27 XXX    |       those courtiers, with their five or six shirts swathed around
28 XXXI   |           at the distance of only five feet.~Joe plunged a bottle
29 XXXIII |     height of from two hundred to five hundred feet. Kennedy frequently
30 XXXIII |        out the town of Lari about five o’clock in the evening.
31 XXXV   |          The idea of a stretch of five or six miles by no means
32 XXXV   |          couch—a toad!—but a toad five inches in length, a monstrous,
33 XXXVI  |         blow-pipe.~“But how?”~“In five minutes we shall be within
34 XXXVI  |        balloon, which was now but five hundred paces behind them,
35 XXXVIII|           ascended to a height of five hundred feet, and, during
36 XXXVIII|         to Tafilet with a load of five hundred pounds upon their
37 XXXVIII|          saw the Niger, travelled five hundred miles with a slave-merchant,
38 XXXVIII|           Joe.~“Oh, by all means!—Five years later, it was Major
39 XLIX   |    Timbuctoo, and the city is not five miles from here!”~“Then,
40 XLI    |         an elevation of more than five hundred feet more.~The stock
41 XLII   |         in all a weight of hardly five hundred pounds, including
42 XLIII  |     approaching. They were hardly five hundred paces away.~“Hold