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501 XXXVI  |              He sees us!” cried the doctor, “and he motions to us,
502 XXXVI  |            will be enough!”~And the doctor proceeded to pile up bags
503 XXXVI  |          steeds at Joe’s heels. The doctor, standing in the front of
504 XXXVI  |           Attention!” exclaimed the doctor to Kennedy.~“I’m ready!”~“
505 XXXVI  |          for yourself!” shouted the doctor in his sonorous, ringing
506 XXXVI  |            dust of the road.~As the doctor shouted, Joe had turned
507 XXXVI  |           instant he grasped it the doctor again shouted to Kennedy:~“
508 XXXVI  |         Saved indeed!” murmured the doctor, who had recovered all his
509 XXXVI  |            sufferings had been. The doctor quietly dressed his wounds,
510 XXXVI  |          glass of brandy, which the doctor did not see fit to refuse,
511 XXXVII |           of the tall sycamore. The doctor and Kennedy kept watch by
512 XXXVII |             it toward the west.~The doctor, map in hand, recognized
513 XXXVII |          Lake Tchad to start on—eh, doctor?”~“Brave fellow!” said Ferguson,
514 XXXVII |         obstinate fellow!” said the doctor, laughing; “you can’t refuse,
515 XXXVII |           his usual philosophy. The doctor could not refrain from frequently
516 XXXVII |             a horse, are there not, doctor? So I didn’t spend much
517 XXXVII |            in counting on you? Now, doctor, you see how simple all
518 XXXVII |              gallant Joe!” said the doctor, with great feeling. “Heart
519 XXXVII |      intelligence and skill.”~“Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow
520 XXXVII |             looked like a town. The doctor glanced at his map and recognized
521 XXXVII |        sleep!” urged Joe. “And you, doctor, do the same yourself: you
522 XXXVII |            in the silvery rays. The doctor took a stellar observation,
523 XXXVIII|          sand.~Before starting, the doctor had prudently renewed his
524 XXXVIII|           wind continuing good, the doctor resolved to keep on during
525 XXXVIII|        right, friend Joe,” said the doctor, “only that my life-boat
526 XXXVIII|           What do you mean by that, doctor?” asked Kennedy.~“I mean
527 XXXVIII|            the details given by the doctor while his companions continued
528 XXXVIII|            see the Niger,” said the doctor. “The face of the country
529 XXXVIII|             It was there,” said the doctor, “that Barth crossed the
530 XXXVIII|            Long since,” replied the doctor. “The exploration of the
531 XXXVIII|            think, eh?” retorted the doctor. “If we are to believe tradition,
532 XLIX   |   impediment to their progress. The doctor’s sole anxiety arose from
533 XLIX   |            Udolpho’!” exclaimed the doctor. “Ann Radcliffe could not
534 XLIX   |             meadow-lands. There the doctor recognized the route followed
535 XLIX   |             s Kabra!” exclaimed the doctor, joyously; “there is the
536 XLIX   |             handsome,” remarked the doctor. “You see the three towers
537 XLIX   |        journey.~“And now,” said the doctor, “Heaven may waft us whither
538 XLIX   |          Joe!”~“And what’s wanting, doctor?”~“Gas, my boy; the ascending
539 XLIX   |             comes of doing nothing, doctor; when a man lies stretched
540 XLIX   |           strike the African coast, doctor?”~“I should find it hard
541 XLIX   |             that.”~At nightfall the doctor threw out the last bags
542 XL     |        visibly wearing out, and the doctor felt it failing him. However,
543 XL     |             freely again!” said the doctor, laying down his spy-glass. “
544 XL     |          aid of your own eyes.”~The doctor was right. The cloud, thick,
545 XL     |          you think of that?”~“Well, doctor, it’s very curious, but
546 XL     |      prolong our journey,” said the doctor, “I should like to alight
547 XL     |           such an opportunity.”~The doctor threw overboard some articles
548 XL     |           to the northwest, and the doctor’s anxiety gradually subsided.~“
549 XL     |             will believe our story, doctor?”~“Who can tell, Joe? One
550 XL     |            it,” added Kennedy.~“Ah, doctor!” said Joe again, with a
551 XLI    |           from the river,” said the doctor, “but I foresee that our
552 XLI    |            which you were speaking, doctor.”~“Yes, there they are,
553 XLI    |              indeed!” exclaimed the doctor, after having examined them
554 XLI    |            tank of water,” said the doctor, “and keep only enough for
555 XLI    |            fifty feet,” replied the doctor, who kept his eyes fixed
556 XLI    |             them though!” urged the doctor.~“Let us throw out the tanks—
557 XLI    |           In ten minutes,” said the doctor to himself, “our car will
558 XLI    |            in passing them!”~“Well, doctor?” queried Joe.~“Keep nothing
559 XLI    |         shock would be fearful.~The doctor glanced around him in the
560 XLI    |     absolutely necessary!”~“Samuel! Doctor!”~“Your guns, and your stock
561 XLI    |           we are lost!” shouted the doctor.~“Wait, sir; wait one moment!”
562 XLI    |              Wretched man!” was the doctor’s agonized expression.~The
563 XLI    |           Joe! my friend!” said the doctor, with deep emotion.~“Oh!
564 XLI    | notwithstanding his repugnance, the doctor had to make up his mind
565 XLI    |      forests ahead of us,” said the doctor; “we are going to sweep
566 XLII   |           Adroitness.—Midnight.—The Doctor’s Watch.—Kennedy’s Watch. —
567 XLII   |          the Natives.—Out of Range.~Doctor Ferguson’s first care was
568 XLII   |           we try that,” resumed the doctor, “we must employ a last
569 XLII   |            I desire to keep.”~“Dear doctor, you know more about the
570 XLII   |              Joe so adroit, and the doctor so ingenious, that they
571 XLII   |     pemmican and cold punch, as the doctor had no more fire to place
572 XLII   |            get some rest,” said the doctor. “I’ll take the first watch;
573 XLII   |           waiting to be coaxed, the doctor’s two companions stretched
574 XLII   |             them at any moment. The doctor no longer counted implicitly
575 XLII   |           of these impressions, the doctor, from time to time, thought
576 XLII   |         What’s the matter?” was the doctor’s immediate exclamation.~“
577 XLII   |      marabouts, no doubt,” said the doctor.~A circle of fire hemmed
578 XLIII  |        beyond redemption,” said the doctor, after a long silence.~“
579 XLIII  |            of danger yet,” said the doctor.~“What do you still apprehend?”
580 XLIII  |             indeed, they!” said the doctor; “the cruel Talabas! the
581 XLIII  |        height are we?” he asked the doctor.~“About seven hundred and
582 XLIII  |          them.”~“Exactly,” said the doctor; “but then they would have
583 XLIII  |          miles to the westward.~The doctor was anxiously watching for
584 XLIII  |          spurring their horses.~The doctor consulted his barometer,
585 XLIII  |         Kennedy.~“Yes!” replied the doctor.~“The mischief!” thought
586 XLIII  |            to take us,” replied the doctor; “and, they will succeed
587 XLIII  |             brandy, Joe,” cried the doctor; “our instruments, and every
588 XLIII  |          Kennedy, thinking that the doctor must be going mad.~“The
589 XLIII  |        clutched the network, as the doctor directed, and Joe, holding
590 XLIII  |           had crossed the hill, the doctor exclaimed: “The river! the
591 XLIII  |    descended to the ground, and the doctor drew his companions toward
592 XLIII  |     dried-up grass had inspired the doctor with a bold idea. It was
593 XLIII  |           river with hot air!”~“Ah, doctor,” exclaimed Kennedy, “you
594 XLIII  |       baobab.~In the mean time, the doctor had enlarged the orifice
595 XLIII  |           kept in full blast by the doctor’s assiduous efforts, and
596 XLIII  |           of hot air.”~“Here it is, doctor!”~The Victoria was now two-thirds
597 XLIII  |       master—have no fear!”~And the doctor, with his foot pushed another
598 XLIII  |    oscillations, while the intrepid doctor and his friends saw the
599 XLIII  |             same, sir,” replied the doctor, quietly, “and his two friends.”~
600 XLIII  |          Joe’s farewell remark.~The doctor could not restrain a tear,
601 XLIV   |     Ferguson’s witnesses. Hence the doctor at once asked them to give
602 XLIV   |        hospitality. Thus aided, the doctor and his friends were enabled
603 XLIV   |       faithful old housekeeper.~The doctor and his devoted Joe remained
604 XLIV   |     published a sketch of the trip.~Doctor Ferguson, at a public meeting