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Chapter
1 I | Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.—A Fatalist convinced.—A
2 I | officially introduced.~“The doctor is at the disposition of
3 I | Francis M——.~And come in the doctor did, and stood there, quite
4 I | gravity seemed to surround the doctor’s entire person, and no
5 I | completely overshadowed. The doctor had shown himself moderate,
6 I | legions of readers. Thus, the doctor had become well known to
7 I | of miles travelled by the doctor in making the circuit of
8 I | of miles traversed by the doctor’s head and feet respectively
9 I | complimenting him, but the doctor had held himself aloof from
10 I | with the Lake of Geneva.~Doctor Ferguson, however, had turned
11 I | calmness with which the doctor received the applause that
12 I | the session closed, the doctor was escorted to the rooms
13 II | Propositions offered to the Doctor.~On the next day, in its
14 II | therefore rather ridiculed the doctor’s scheme, and urged him,
15 II | their eyes fixed on the doctor, and he became the lion
16 III | CHAPTER THIRD.~The Doctor’s Friend.—The Origin of
17 III | ivory tusks, became the doctor’s booty.~These two young
18 III | frequently separated by the doctor’s distant expeditions; but,
19 III | talked of the past; the doctor busily prepared for the
20 III | journey to the Thibet, the doctor had remained nearly two
21 III | So, Kennedy besought the doctor to tie up his bark for life,
22 III | the gratitude of men.~The doctor contented himself with making
23 III | deposited him at the door of the doctor’s modest dwelling, in Soho
24 III | conceived.”~“Folly!” said the doctor.~“Is what this paper says,
25 III | dear Dick!” resumed the doctor. “You’re angry at me because
26 III | have been very busy,” the doctor went on, without heeding
27 III | for ten minutes,” said the doctor, “you will thank me!”~“Are
28 III | Why?” ejaculated the doctor, growing animated. “Because,
29 III | passing high up in the air, doctor, there’s the rub!”~“Come,
30 III | Come, then,” said the doctor, “what have I to fear? You
31 III | riveted his eyes upon the doctor with wonder and admiration,
32 III | on the watch. As for the doctor, he went on diligently with
33 IV | threatened to besiege it. The doctor, therefore, left it on the
34 IV | narrative of the German doctor, Ferdinand Werne, the expedition
35 V | afraid, no doubt, that the doctor might take his departure,
36 V | fine, Dick felt that the doctor was slipping through his
37 V | did not seem to touch the doctor’s heart.~“We’ll not fall,”
38 V | exasperated Dick was, that the doctor seemed completely to lose
39 V | to yield entirely to the doctor’s wishes; but, in order
40 V | desired or intended, and the doctor trembled with impatience.~“
41 V | conjunction.~“But,” said the doctor, “are you not aware that
42 V | on foot,” rejoined the doctor, without noticing the insinuation. “
43 V | noticing the insinuation. “Doctor Krapf proposes to push forward,
44 V | Kennedy.~“Lastly,” resumed the doctor, “M. de Heuglin, the Austrian
45 VI | But then, what a man the doctor was in the eyes of this
46 VI | his master.~So, when the doctor conceived the project of
47 VI | from the moment when the doctor had made up his mind to
48 VI | faith as Joe felt in the doctor, it is not to be wondered
49 VI | other blind confidence. The doctor, however, vibrated between
50 VI | will always stick to the doctor!”~“You’re a fine fellow,
51 VI | sir, it seems that the doctor’s machine requires it.”~“
52 VI | now, you won’t vex the doctor in that way!”~“Aye! that
53 VI | go!”~At this moment the doctor entered his study, where
54 VI | his ease.~“Dick,” said the doctor, “come with Joe; I want
55 VI | necessary, by the way, for the doctor to know the weight of his
56 VI | fifty-three pounds,” said the doctor, noting it down on his tablets.~“
57 VI | twenty pounds,” wrote the doctor.~“Ah! ha!” said Joe, with
58 VI | Useless, my boy!” replied the doctor. “You may eat as much as
59 VII | aerostatic experiments.~The doctor, according to very accurate
60 VII | two-thirds filled.~But the doctor, in carrying out a project
61 VII | addition to the above, the doctor caused to be constructed
62 VII | had placed itself at the doctor’s disposal. The latter,
63 VII | displacement.~Nor did the doctor forget an awning to shelter
64 VIII | the 21st of February.—The Doctor’s Scientific Sessions.—
65 VIII | the plans and views of the doctor, giving folks a glimpse
66 VIII | particular interest in the doctor’s expedition, having been
67 VIII | weight prescribed by the doctor.~The three travellers got
68 VIII | captain and his officers, the doctor continuing as reserved as
69 VIII | Seeing and hearing the doctor soon inspired everybody
70 VIII | hours of the voyage, the doctor held regular sittings, with
71 VIII | years in Africa; and the doctor related to them the explorations
72 VIII | not pass, contended the doctor, without Africa having been
73 VIII | discussed them; and the doctor frankly took part in the
74 VIII | country.”~“Ah!” replied the doctor, “if I am master of my balloon—
75 VIII | eye was now turned to the doctor.~“Never mind him!” said
76 IX | next one.~So, while the doctor was pursuing his descriptive
77 IX | during the same time the doctor went on with his instructive
78 IX | directing balloons, and the doctor was asked his opinion about
79 IX | Not at all,” retorted the doctor, “there is little or no
80 IX | is the real difficulty, doctor.”~“And why, my dear captain?”~“
81 IX | You are right, my dear doctor; but this problem is not
82 IX | more from them.”~“Well! doctor, would it be proper to ask
83 IX | was now directed to the doctor in the utmost degree as
84 X | Former Experiments.—The Doctor’s Five Receptacles.—The
85 X | made, gentlemen,” said the doctor, “to rise and descend at
86 X | matters that,” replied the doctor, “provided that it be practicable?”~
87 XI | give the last touch to the doctor’s preparations.~At length
88 XI | offer his services to the doctor, of whose projects the European
89 XI | longer.”~He invited the doctor, Kennedy, and the faithful
90 XI | Through his courtesy, the doctor was enabled to have knowledge
91 XI | manage to avoid,” said the doctor.~The baggage of the three
92 XI | Just the thing!” said the doctor, “and we shall be entirely
93 XI | the personal safety of the doctor and his companions was feared,
94 XI | Kennedy went right up to the doctor, grasped his hand, and said:~“
95 XI | sure you would!” said the doctor, betraying in his features
96 XI | having a final shake of the doctor’s hand.~At nine o’clock
97 XI | got into their car. The doctor lit the combustible in his
98 XI | friends!” exclaimed the doctor, standing up between his
99 XI | Let go all!” shouted the doctor, and at the word the Victoria
100 XII | Maizan.—Mount Dathumi.—The Doctor’s Cards.—Night under a Nopal.~
101 XII | time.~He got no reply. The doctor was busy observing the variations
102 XII | We are looking!” said the doctor, directing his spy-glass
103 XII | passage over the sea the doctor deemed it best to keep at
104 XII | coast of the mainland. The doctor, thereupon, determined to
105 XII | near to a village which the doctor found marked upon his chart
106 XII | to the southward, but the doctor felt no concern on that
107 XII | coffee as you like,” said the doctor. “I give you leave to borrow
108 XII | The fact is,” added the doctor, “that Joe, along with a
109 XII | remained in sight.~At noon, the doctor, upon consulting his map,
110 XII | It was there,” said the doctor, “that Burton and Speke
111 XII | country in question. Even the doctor could hope to escape its
112 XII | closer look at them, but the doctor invariably held out against
113 XII | away, then,” replied the doctor, “but at a distance. There
114 XII | and to accomplish that the doctor had only to raise the temperature
115 XII | alarming mouthfuls.~The doctor took his bearings, by means
116 XII | This Atlas was to serve the doctor on his whole journey; for
117 XII | was satisfactory to the doctor, who desired to reconnoitre
118 XII | safety of the rest. The doctor took the watch commencing
119 XIII | Kennedy has the Fever.—The Doctor’s Medicine. —Travels on
120 XIII | think he’s right,” said the doctor, “one could readily believe
121 XIII | means of the ladder. The doctor vigorously dilated the gas,
122 XIII | get over this,” said the doctor.~“Get over it! Egad, Samuel,
123 XIII | Three hours later, the doctor’s prediction was fully verified.
124 XIII | shan’t touch them,” was the doctor’s quiet answer.~“It’s a
125 XIII | of spirits.~In fact, the doctor managed his balloon with
126 XIII | thousand fathoms,” said the doctor; “and, with a very large
127 XIII | lakes dwindle to ponds.~The doctor and his friends felt themselves
128 XIII | those lonely summits. The doctor took an accurate design
129 XIII | embellished the horizon. The doctor went nearer to the ground;
130 XIII | attached the anchor, and the doctor left his cylinder at work
131 XIII | Don’t fly away without us, doctor!” shouted Joe.~“Never fear,
132 XIV | There, those will tickle the doctor!” said Kennedy.~“Do you
133 XIV | idea! Why, do you think the doctor would desert us?”~“No; but
134 XIV | Impossible! and, besides, the doctor would find no difficulty
135 XIV | balloon in its place and the doctor in the car.~“What’s the
136 XIV | were only apes,” said the doctor.~“At a distance there’s
137 XIV | I believe you!” said the doctor; “the flesh of the antelope
138 XIV | the level of the sea. The doctor was, therefore, obliged
139 XIV | the basin of Kanyeme. The doctor immediately recognized that
140 XIV | atmosphere seemed to sleep. The doctor vainly sought for a current
141 XIV | were soon sound asleep, the doctor keeping the first watch.
142 XIV | post, in the morning, the doctor consulted his compass, and
143 XIV | not be supposed that the doctor could entirely extinguish
144 XIV | the gas. But, in case the doctor, in the absence of all wind,
145 XIV | apes eat with avidity. The doctor recognized the fruit of
146 XIV | to his place beside the doctor. The latter then replenished
147 XIV | thousand feet. Hence, the doctor preferred not to force the
148 XIV | in the morning,” said the doctor, consulting his notes, “
149 XV | The Sons of the Moon.—The Doctor’s Walk.—The Population of
150 XV | and the huts.~“My dear doctor,” said Kennedy, “if we continue
151 XV | that way!”~“Ah!” said the doctor, “these natives are a little
152 XV | Do you really think so, doctor?”~“Well, we’ll see pretty
153 XV | style of praying,” said the doctor; “and, if I’m not mistaken,
154 XV | his audience. From it the doctor was not slow in learning
155 XV | loved by the god of day.~The doctor responded, with much dignity,
156 XV | the moon to visit him.~The doctor acquainted his companions
157 XV | blackamoor’s den?”~“How! doctor, am I not to go with you?”~“
158 XV | and her divine sons.”~The doctor, equipped with his travelling
159 XV | distances.~In the meanwhile the doctor, escorted to the sound of
160 XV | so grand an occasion!~The doctor stepped along with great
161 XV | some small battle-axes.~The doctor advanced into the palace,
162 XV | of powerful cordial, the doctor for a moment reanimated
163 XV | shouts and cries in the doctor’s honor.~The latter, who
164 XV | of the fun, Joe saw the doctor approaching.~The latter
165 XV | They were close upon the doctor’s heels, crowding and threatening
166 XV | impatient to soar away.~The doctor had got as far as the foot
167 XV | moment to lose!” said the doctor. “Don’t attempt to let go
168 XV | hand.~“Look!” replied the doctor, pointing to the horizon.~“
169 XV | wait a moment,” replied the doctor.~“But this black?”~“We may,
170 XV | Joe.~“Oh no,” replied the doctor, “we’ll let him down easily;
171 XV | Half an hour later, the doctor, seeing the country deserted,
172 XVI | half-dead sot,” replied the doctor, “whose loss will not be
173 XVI | And who knows,” said the doctor, “that this country may
174 XVI | In fact,” assented the doctor, “they are great boiler-makers!
175 XVI | electricity,” replied the doctor; “every living creature
176 XVI | manage to do so,” replied the doctor, “I will turn more directly
177 XVI | fingers at all that vermin!—Doctor! Mr. Kennedy! see those
178 XVI | But the tempest!” said the doctor, with much uneasiness.~“
179 XVI | Make up your mind, dear doctor, for time presses!”~“It’
180 XVI | my friends,” rejoined the doctor. “The clouds are dangerous
181 XVI | their blankets, and the doctor remained alone in the immensity
182 XVI | concussion, were at the doctor’s orders in a moment.~“Shall
183 XVI | loose!” and, so saying, the doctor actively stirred up the
184 XVI | too long,” exclaimed the doctor; “we must now pass through
185 XVI | trees!”~“We are going up, doctor!”~“Quicker, quicker still!”~
186 XVI | not be very rapid.”~The doctor’s voice could scarcely be
187 XVI | at this height,” said the doctor.~“It was frightful!” remarked
188 XVII | from its place, and the doctor, letting the gas contract,
189 XVII | we are at last,” said the doctor, “in an unexplored country!
190 XVII | But the foresight of the doctor was not long in bringing
191 XVII | the right track,” said the doctor, consulting his compass, “
192 XVII | my good Joe,” said the doctor, reassuring him; “we have
193 XVII | meat.”~“Whenever you like, doctor.”~“We shall also have to
194 XVII | his rifle.~“No,” said the doctor, “it’s an elephant’s trunk!”~“
195 XVII | By his gigantic size, the doctor recognized a male of a superb
196 XVII | heavy thumps. Meanwhile the doctor stood ready, hatchet in
197 XVII | the ground compelled the doctor to vary his style of locomotion.
198 XVII | continuous fire, too,” urged the doctor, “for we are close on the
199 XVII | and the shock made the doctor drop his hatchet on the
200 XVII | over it, Dick?” said the doctor. “Are we ivory merchants?
201 XVII | to the unbroken tusk. The doctor and Dick leaped out on the
202 XVII | for an hour or two; the doctor will make an inspection
203 XVII | good arrangement!” said the doctor; “so do as you like, Joe.”~“
204 XVII | far away.”~“Never fear, doctor!” and, so saying, Dick,
205 XVII | His examination ended, the doctor betook himself to setting
206 XVII | seriously proposed to the doctor to settle in this forest,
207 XVII | quiet, so deserted, that the doctor resolved to pass the night
208 XVIII | eighteen miles per hour.~The doctor had carefully taken his
209 XVIII | cultivated grounds, and the doctor greatly surprised his companions
210 XVIII | to the northward, to the doctor’s great regret, for it had
211 XVIII | and unsheltered basin.~The doctor experienced some difficulty
212 XVIII | done.~Nevertheless, the doctor, who was less of an optimist,
213 XVIII | with a threatening hum.~The doctor ascertained the height of
214 XVIII | is dotted,” replied the doctor, “are nothing, after all,
215 XVIII | Won’t you do the same, doctor?”~“No, I could not close
216 XVIII | sound slumber, while the doctor held his post.~On Wednesday,
217 XVIII | said Joe, “do you think, doctor, that the equator passes
218 XVIII | moisten it.”~“Good!” said the doctor, laughing. “Let us have
219 XVIII | sinking of the waves, the doctor was enabled to conclude
220 XVIII | cataracts, which confirmed the doctor in his preconceived ideas
221 XVIII | the Nile!” reiterated the doctor, with the tone of profound
222 XVIII | descend I must,” said the doctor, “were it only for a quarter
223 XVIII | is indispensable, then, doctor?”~“Indispensable; and we
224 XVIII | first time,” remarked the doctor, “that science has been
225 XVIII | Be easy on that score, doctor, and trust to your two body-guards.”~“
226 XVIII | from Gondokoro,” said the doctor, measuring off the distance
227 XVIII | by Debono!” exclaimed the doctor.~The basin of the river
228 XVIII | But, all at once, the doctor snatched up his spy-glass,
229 XVIII | very same,” repeated the doctor, exultingly.~“And what of
230 XVIII | it seems to be inhabited, doctor.”~“Joe is right; and, unless
231 XVIII | The ladder!” cried the doctor. “Follow me, Kennedy.”~“
232 XVIII | good lookout.”~“Never fear, doctor; I’ll answer for all that.”~“
233 XVIII | Come, Dick,” said the doctor, as he touched the ground.~
234 XVIII | now,” was the reply.~The doctor, for the last time, examined
235 XIX | One last look,” said the doctor, “at this impassable latitude,
236 XIX | My friends,” said the doctor, “here is where OUR passage
237 XIX | mood of his friends, the doctor and Kennedy.~About ten the
238 XIX | in that idea,” said the doctor.~“But how did they come
239 XIX | unexpected mountain-peak, the doctor, about five o’clock, gave
240 XIX | importance for us,” said the doctor; “in the first place, we
241 XX | away beneath us!” said the doctor.~“See! that forest looks
242 XX | be astonished,” said the doctor. “The French peasants, when
243 XX | bottle, with your leave, doctor, and if it reaches them
244 XX | a fig-tree,” replied the doctor, “on which there is a little
245 XX | venerable forests. Look, doctor!”~“The height of these banyans
246 XX | remark.~Meanwhile, during the doctor’s recital and Joe’s response,
247 XX | these cannibals!” said the doctor; “the Indians merely carry
248 XX | themselves,” resumed the doctor, “with shutting up the criminal
249 XX | their attacks!” said the doctor, “they are more to be feared
250 XX | seriously proposed,” replied the doctor, “but I think it hardly
251 XX | of range,” exclaimed the doctor; “there must be no rashness!
252 XX | No! no!” objected the doctor, vehemently; “no, let us
253 XX | this spectacle,” said the doctor.~But they could not get
254 XXI | night came on very dark. The doctor had not been able to reconnoitre
255 XXI | lookout, Dick!” was the doctor’s good-night injunction.~“
256 XXI | waken us.”~“I’ll do so, doctor; rest easy.”~After listening
257 XXI | moment or two longer, the doctor, hearing nothing more, threw
258 XXI | he placed his hand on the doctor’s shoulder.~The latter was
259 XXI | the meanwhile,” added the doctor, “I will take my measures
260 XXI | Did you hear that?” the doctor asked them.~“Undoubtedly,
261 XXI | making a martyr of him!”~The doctor then spoke, and it was impossible
262 XXI | your views?”~“They are, doctor, and we are ready to obey
263 XXI | to-night!”~“Do you hear, doctor,” resumed Kennedy, seizing
264 XXI | resumed Kennedy, seizing the doctor’s hand. “Suppose they should
265 XXI | were daylight?” said the doctor, in a singular tone.~“Nothing
266 XXI | tone.~“Nothing more simple, doctor,” said Kennedy. “I’d go
267 XXI | Perhaps we may,” said the doctor, throwing considerable stress
268 XXI | stress upon the words.~“Why, doctor, can you light up such darkness
269 XXI | learned man in the world!”~The doctor kept silent for a few moments;
270 XXI | order.~“Very good!” said the doctor. “Have an eye to every thing.
271 XXI | air.~In the mean time the doctor assured himself of the presence
272 XXI | perfectly silent. When the doctor had finished, he stood up
273 XXI | Not a word!” cautioned the doctor.~
274 XXII | Priest.—But little Hope.—The Doctor’s Care.—A Life of Self-Denial. —
275 XXII | him, Dick!” responded the doctor; “we must save him!”~The
276 XXII | ready, friends?”~“Ready, doctor, at the word.”~“Joe, shut
277 XXII | shut off the cylinder!”~The doctor’s order was executed. An
278 XXII | solitude around the stake. The doctor had, therefore, been right
279 XXII | Kennedy seized his rifle. The doctor, however, besought him not
280 XXII | hundred pounds of ballast.~The doctor had expected to ascend rapidly,
281 XXII | Dick! Dick!” cried the doctor, “the water-tank!”~Kennedy
282 XXII | light.~“Hurrah!” shouted the doctor’s comrades.~Suddenly, the
283 XXII | leaving us!” replied the doctor, tranquilly, and Joe, leaning
284 XXII | pieces on the ground. The doctor then separated his electric
285 XXII | You are saved!” were the doctor’s first words.~“Saved!”
286 XXII | Kennedy.~“No,” replied the doctor, bending over him, “but
287 XXII | their agonizing marks. The doctor, taking an old handkerchief,
288 XXII | they were complete, the doctor, taking a cordial from his
289 XXII | Thank you! thank you!”~The doctor comprehended that he must
290 XXII | the west-northwest. The doctor went in under the awning
291 XXII | During the entire day the doctor would not allow the sleep
292 XXII | disquiet and agitate the doctor greatly.~Toward evening
293 XXII | feel to-day?” asked the doctor.~“Better, perhaps,” he replied. “
294 XXII | a missionary?” asked the doctor.~“I am a priest of the Lazarist
295 XXII | burning with fever. The doctor prepared him some tea, and
296 XXII | an agonizing death? The doctor again washed and dressed
297 XXII | if not his strength.~The doctor was able to gather something
298 XXII | forty hours, and, as the doctor had supposed, he was to
299 XXII | Hope still!” said the doctor; “we are near you, and we
300 XXII | sky appeared on fire. The doctor very attentively examined
301 XXII | a safe height!” said the doctor.~Three hours later, the
302 XXIII | nothing to save him,” said the doctor, despairingly.~“The infamous
303 XXIII | some broken words, and the doctor at once went to him. His
304 XXIII | tears.~“Dead!” said the doctor, bending over him, “dead!”
305 XXIII | To-morrow,” resumed the doctor, “we shall bury him in the
306 XXIII | sterility.~Toward noon, the doctor, for the purpose of burying
307 XXIII | touched the ground, the doctor shut the valve. Joe leaped
308 XXIII | which enabled both the doctor and Kennedy, in their turn,
309 XXIII | much so, indeed, that the doctor’s attention was attracted
310 XXIII | singular discovery!” said the doctor, mentally.~In the mean while,
311 XXIII | resemblance to a tomb.~The doctor, however, remained motionless,
312 XXIII | are you thinking about, doctor?” asked Kennedy.~“About
313 XXIII | No! what do you mean, doctor?”~“That priest, who took
314 XXIII | a gold-mine,” said the doctor, quietly. “Those blocks
315 XXIII | said his master.~“Why, doctor, you speak of the thing
316 XXIII | you know,” resumed the doctor, “and cannot very easily
317 XXIII | good! I consent,” said the doctor, “but you must not make
318 XXIII | hard crystal casket.~The doctor watched him with a smile;
319 XXIII | began to steal over the doctor’s mind. He would have given
320 XXIII | treasures in the ravine.~The doctor rekindled the light in the
321 XXIII | silent.~“Joe!” said the doctor.~Joe made no reply.~“Joe!
322 XXIII | some of that quartz!”~“But, doctor, you gave me leave—”~“I
323 XXIII | yet.”~“Not yet,” said the doctor. “Keep on throwing.”~Kennedy
324 XXIII | Poor fellow!” said the doctor. “Mr. Kennedy, you and I
325 XXIII | Keep on!” replied the doctor.~“It’s going up; I’m sure.”~“
326 XXIII | Now, Joe,” resumed the doctor, “there still remains a
327 XXIII | See, my dear Dick!” the doctor went on. “Just see the power
328 XXIV | making progress,” said the doctor. “If I am not mistaken,
329 XXIV | mournful glance at him; but the doctor made no reply. He was thinking,
330 XXIV | forward; and, indeed, the doctor asked for nothing better;
331 XXIV | three gallons in all! The doctor put aside one gallon, destined
332 XXIV | Fifty-four hours!” said the doctor to his companions. “Therefore,
333 XXIV | on short allowance, then, doctor,” responded Kennedy, “but
334 XXIV | This circumstance gave the doctor some hope, since it recalled
335 XXIV | clock in the morning, the doctor gave the signal for departure,
336 XXIV | the leaden atmosphere.~The doctor might have escaped this
337 XXIV | go any faster,” said the doctor; “we no longer command—we
338 XXIV | command—we have to obey.”~“Ah! doctor, here is one of those occasions
339 XXIV | regret, though, what you did, doctor?”~“No, Dick, since it was
340 XXIV | it.”~Toward evening, the doctor calculated that the balloon
341 XXIV | that gasp would cease.~The doctor reacted against the gloominess
342 XXIV | association of ideas, the doctor allowed himself to be carried
343 XXIV | And you, Kennedy?”~“I, doctor, I’m not the man to despair;
344 XXIV | gallant friends!” replied the doctor, with much real feeling, “
345 XXIV | Now, hear me!” said the doctor. “According to my solar
346 XXIV | quietly, indeed, but the doctor did not sleep!~
347 XXV | the open desert,” said the doctor. “Look at that vast reach
348 XXV | Joe’s right!” said the doctor, after he had taken a look.~“
349 XXV | Kennedy, addressing the doctor.~“No! the gutta-percha coating
350 XXV | from this circumstance the doctor concluded that there was
351 XXV | isolated cloud,” remarked the doctor. “It won’t do to count much
352 XXV | it this morning!”~“Then, doctor, there’s to be neither rain
353 XXV | a great height.”~“Well, doctor, suppose we were to go in
354 XXV | ascend!”~And with this, the doctor put on a full head of flame
355 XXV | perhaps, and that was all.~The doctor gloomily recognized what
356 XXV | What’s the matter, Joe?”~“Doctor! Mr. Kennedy! Here’s something
357 XXV | fellow’s brain?” said the doctor, turning toward him.~“Will
358 XXV | believed it? Look, look! doctor!”~“I see it!” said the doctor,
359 XXV | doctor!”~“I see it!” said the doctor, very quietly.~“Another
360 XXV | Victoria.~“Well,” said the doctor, “nothing remains for us
361 XXV | us.”~“It means,” said the doctor, laughing, “that it is you,
362 XXV | of the MIRAGE,” said the doctor, “and nothing else—a simple
363 XXV | still to diminish, and the doctor in perfect desperation descended
364 XXV | allowance!” moralized the doctor.~“It is not great, after
365 XXV | slightest sign of moisture. The doctor’s heart shrank within him,
366 XXV | one trace of moisture!~The doctor saw them come up to the
367 XXVI | and Thirteen Degrees.—The Doctor’s Reflections.—A Desperate
368 XXVI | On Saturday morning the doctor again gave the signal for
369 XXVI | suddenly remarking the doctor’s ill-concealed depression.~
370 XXVI | his companions slept, the doctor raised the hydrogen in the
371 XXVI | perpendicular rays of the sun. The doctor searched vainly for a breath
372 XXVI | had to do so,” replied the doctor, gravely.~His companions
373 XXVI | pint of water, and this the doctor put away, all three having
374 XXVI | despair,” responded the doctor. “In this latitude these
375 XXVI | that?”~“Well,” replied the doctor, “I think that there is
376 XXVI | When night came on, the doctor determined to combat this
377 XXVI | Come with me!”~But the doctor could do nothing with them,
378 XXVI | the deepening gloom. The doctor, cool, impassible, reckless
379 XXVI | to the balloon.”~And the doctor, leaning on Joe’s arm, returned
380 XXVI | wind, we are lost.”~The doctor made no reply.~“Well, then,
381 XXVI | up my mind to that!”~The doctor made no answer, and in a
382 XXVII | The Lion and Lioness.~The doctor’s first care, on the morrow,
383 XXVII | around him. In the car, the doctor, completely overwhelmed,
384 XXVII | contending thus without the doctor seeing them for many seconds,
385 XXVII | sound of its discharge, the doctor rose up erect, like a spectre,
386 XXVII | and both looked where the doctor pointed.~The plain was agitated
387 XXVII | the better!” echoed the doctor, “for we shall live!” and,
388 XXVII | And now, Joe,” said the doctor, “throw out some fifty pounds
389 XXVII | was high time!” said the doctor.~The simoom, in fact, came
390 XXVII | more ballast!” shouted the doctor.~“There!” responded Joe,
391 XXVII | find water there!” said the doctor.~And, instantly, opening
392 XXVII | guns with you!” said the doctor; “take your guns, and be
393 XXVII | in its coolness.~“But the doctor?” said Joe; “our friend,
394 XXVII | get out of this, and the doctor is expecting us.”~“Let us
395 XXVIII | lack of provisions, the doctor resolved to remain where
396 XXVIII | dear Dick,” replied the doctor, “had it not been for Joe,
397 XXVIII | little water, you mean, doctor,” interposed Joe; “that
398 XXVIII | disgusting enough,” said the doctor, “that’s a fact; and so
399 XXVIII | Bruce.”~“Tell it to us, doctor; we’ve time enough to hear
400 XXVIII | my dear Dick,” said the doctor, “haven’t you rather a short
401 XXVIII | it on fire,” replied the doctor, “so that others in the
402 XXVIII | be very careful, indeed, doctor; but do you think that this
403 XXVIII | betray a breath of wind.~The doctor began to get uneasy again.
404 XXVIII | the rest of the day the doctor vainly kept on the watch
405 XXVIII | the watches kept by the doctor and Kennedy there was no
406 XXVIII | At last!” exclaimed the doctor, eying the heavens. “But
407 XXVIII | being torn to pieces. The doctor, followed by Kennedy, leaped
408 XIX | beginning to disappear.~The doctor hailed with joy the new
409 XIX | still in the negro country, doctor?”~“Yes, and on our way to
410 XIX | What do you say to that, doctor?”~“Poor Joe! Another person
411 XIX | country is superb!” said the doctor.~“Here are some animals,”
412 XIX | prodigality of Nature, the doctor recognized the splendid
413 XIX | explored. But,” added the doctor, consulting his compass, “
414 XIX | seen in its vicinity, the doctor recognized the Benoue, one
415 XIX | This river,” said the doctor to his companions, “will,
416 XIX | cones of Mount Mendif.~The doctor threw out his anchors and
417 XIX | Victoria, admonished the doctor to continue his journey.
418 XIX | of all he could do, the doctor bore directly to the northeast,
419 XIX | done was to cross it. The doctor, by means of a temperature
420 XXX | of arrival would be, the doctor had no fears concerning
421 XXX | entry into the place.~The doctor lowered the balloon in order
422 XXX | proudly waited in silence. The doctor came on to within a hundred
423 XXX | of the highway, where the doctor had to leave him, finding
424 XXX | it to supernatural aid.”~“Doctor, you spoke of the first
425 XXX | explorer.”*~* Since the doctor’s departure, letters written
426 XXX | quite distinctly seen.~The doctor got his companions to trace
427 XXX | another dead calm?” sighed the doctor.~“Well, we’ve no lack of
428 XXX | Here we are!” said the doctor, “nearer to Kernak than
429 XXX | discourse, of which the doctor could not understand a word.
430 XXX | seemed to be artificial. The doctor surprised his companions
431 XXX | silence of death; but the doctor only redoubled his vigilance,
432 XXX | really curious!” said the doctor, somewhat puzzled to make
433 XXX | with a network of fire.~The doctor dared hesitate no longer;
434 XXX | sleep in quiet,” said the doctor.~“Not badly got up for barbarians,”
435 XXX | Ferguson.~“What are they, then, doctor?”~“They are the careless
436 XXXI | in motion, and both the doctor and Kennedy awoke.~The former
437 XXXI | kind of chickens!”~“Come, doctor, can’t we get down nearer
438 XXXI | to force their way.~The doctor strove in vain to fix its
439 XXXI | and the same horizon.~The doctor was desirous of determining
440 XXXI | carbonate-of-soda flavor.~While the doctor was jotting down the result
441 XXXI | execution,” interposed the doctor. “The animal would very
442 XXXII | Biddiomahs.—The Condors.—The Doctor’s Anxieties.—His Precautions.—
443 XXXII | seven or eight miles.~The doctor, who was somewhat vexed
444 XXXII | it, Joe?”~“This time, the doctor will not disapprove of your
445 XXXII | Birds?” exclaimed the doctor, snatching his spyglass.~“
446 XXXII | sufficiently noxious for the doctor to let me peg away at them!”~“
447 XXXII | Who can tell?” was the doctor’s only remark.~Ten minutes
448 XXXII | abrupt and daring angle.~The doctor, much disquieted, resolved
449 XXXII | you speaking seriously, doctor?”~“Very seriously, Dick.”~“
450 XXXII | following us!” said the doctor, as he saw them ascending
451 XXXII | do?” asked Kennedy.~The doctor made no answer.~“Listen,
452 XXXII | fire at once!” cried the doctor.~He had scarcely ceased,
453 XXXII | the lake!”~Joe obeyed. The doctor leaned over and looked out.
454 XXXII | the provisions!” cried the doctor.~And the box containing
455 XXXII | something more!” cried the doctor.~“There is nothing more
456 XXXII | Joe! Joe!” exclaimed the doctor, horror-stricken.~The Victoria
457 XXXIII | imparted his conjectures to the doctor.~“Perhaps Joe is not lost
458 XXXIII | say, Dick!” replied the doctor, with much emotion. “We
459 XXXIII | worth the trouble!”~The doctor and Kennedy went to work
460 XXXIII | recollect it,” said the doctor, “but that island, like
461 XXXIII | the old lot.”~“Very good, doctor, I shall not be long absent.”~
462 XXXIII | of shooting soon let the doctor know that the sportsman
463 XXXIII | meat had disappeared.~The doctor was aware that, by the loss
464 XXXIII | pounds of fresh meat, the doctor got a total weight of twenty-eight
465 XXXIII | first streak of day, the doctor aroused Kennedy.~“I have
466 XXXIII | Whatever your plan may be, doctor, it will suit me. Speak!”~“
467 XXXIII | a prisoner,” resumed the doctor, “it not being the practice
468 XXXIII | then!” said the hunter.~The doctor hereupon took the exact
469 XXXIII | twenty miles per hour.~The doctor continued to keep at a height
470 XXXIII | populous island, which the doctor took to be Farram, on which
471 XXXIII | of his exploration.~The doctor became uneasy at this persistent
472 XXXIII | dragged to the mainland. The doctor was reasoning thus to himself,
473 XXXIII | of both Kennedy and the doctor: caymans swarm in these
474 XXXIII | forcibly at last that the doctor said, without further preface:~“
475 XXXIII | terrible possibility.~The doctor made out the town of Lari
476 XXXIII | of the wind carried the doctor farther onward than he wanted
477 XXXIII | considerable resistance.~The doctor had much difficulty in restraining
478 XXXIV | be off, Dick,” said the doctor; “we cannot remain in this
479 XXXIV | in this situation.”~“But, doctor, what of Joe?”~“I am not
480 XXXIV | into the car again.~The doctor, unwilling to run such a
481 XXXIV | resistless speed!”~“Come, doctor, admitting that he may have
482 XXXIV | we’ll come back again, doctor!”~“Come back, Dick? Yes,
483 XXXIV | Europeans.”~“I will follow you, doctor,” replied the hunter, with
484 XXXIV | cannot alight!” said the doctor; “not a tree, not an inequality
485 XXXIV | of an entire caravan!~The doctor and Kennedy, pallid with
486 XXXIV | without speaking; but the doctor had regained all his daring
487 XXXIV | matters little,” replied the doctor, “the important point is
488 XXXIV | will look out for that, doctor, and not a tree shall be
489 XXXV | toward the lake. No doubt the doctor has gone to work to right
490 XXXVI | time he turned toward the doctor and said:~“If I am not greatly
491 XXXVI | contrary breeze?” said the doctor, “another whirlwind coming
492 XXXVI | horsemen. Look—look there!”~The doctor eyed the group with great
493 XXXVI | we can go higher.”~“Wait, doctor—wait a little!”~“It’s curious,”
494 XXXVI | fugitive!” exclaimed the doctor, growing more and more interested.~“
495 XXXVI | with incredible speed.~“Doctor! doctor!” shouted Kennedy
496 XXXVI | incredible speed.~“Doctor! doctor!” shouted Kennedy in an
497 XXXVI | Well?” questioned the doctor.~“It is he, doctor!”~“He!”
498 XXXVI | questioned the doctor.~“It is he, doctor!”~“He!” exclaimed Ferguson
499 XXXVI | Joe himself!” cried the doctor, turning pale.~“He cannot
500 XXXVI | see us, though!” said the doctor, lowering the flame of his
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