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1 VI | Satellites of Jupiter.—Dick and Joe hard at it.—Doubt and Faith.—
2 VI | The Weighing Ceremony.—Joe and Wellington.—He gets
3 VI | alacrity to the name of Joe. He was an excellent fellow,
4 VI | Incomparable, whole-souled Joe! a servant who orders your
5 VI | the eyes of this worthy Joe! With what respect and what
6 VI | admirable. You might have cut Joe to pieces—not an agreeable
7 VI | Africa through the air, for Joe the thing was already done;
8 VI | smart enough, by-the-way!), Joe would certainly have received
9 VI | head and Kennedy the arm, Joe was to be the right hand
10 VI | With such profound faith as Joe felt in the doctor, it is
11 VI | other.~“Well, Mr. Kennedy,” Joe would say.~“Well, my boy?”~“
12 VI | your illusions, my good Joe; but this undertaking of
13 VI | your master?”~“I?” answered Joe, with an accent of profound
14 VI | was sick? No, Mr. Kennedy, Joe will always stick to the
15 VI | You’re a fine fellow, Joe!”~“But, then, you’re coming
16 VI | scheme.”~“By-the-way,” said Joe, “you know that the weighing
17 VI | that I will.”~“Well!” said Joe with a laugh, “you say that
18 VI | said the doctor, “come with Joe; I want to know how much
19 VI | no, Mr. Kennedy!” said Joe; “and then, you know, I
20 VI | make up for it.”~So saying, Joe, with enthusiasm, took his
21 VI | the doctor.~“Ah! ha!” said Joe, with a smile of satisfaction
22 VI | pounds.”~“But, sir,” said Joe, “if it was necessary for
23 VII | 153 "~ Joe................................
24 VIII | CHAPTER EIGHTH.~Joe’s Importance.—The Commander
25 VIII | applied in their construction.~Joe hardly knew what he was
26 VIII | unwilling to betray it; while Joe was fairly dancing and breaking
27 IX | Cosmography by Professor Joe.—Concerning the Method of
28 IX | Mozambique Channel.~This was not Joe’s first sea-voyage, and
29 IX | lecturing in the officers’ mess, Joe reigned supreme on the forecastle,
30 IX | naturally, the aerial voyage. Joe had experienced some trouble
31 IX | the seamen stimulated by Joe’s harangues.~Our dazzling
32 IX | To the moon!” exclaimed Joe, “To the moon! pooh! that’
33 IX | toddy.~“Not a drop!” was Joe’s answer. “No! old fellow,
34 IX | together.~“Solemn truth!” said Joe, stoutly.~“But what can
35 XI | Kennedy, and the faithful Joe, of course, to his own dwelling.
36 XI | feeling, not excepting even Joe, who, worthy fellow, was
37 XI | and Ferguson, Kennedy, and Joe, waved a last good-by to
38 XII | Mrima.—Dick’s Remark and Joe’s Proposition.—A Recipe
39 XII | How fine that is!” said Joe, breaking silence for the
40 XII | You don’t talk?” said Joe, again.~“We are looking!”
41 XII | As much as you please, Joe; talk as much as you like!”~
42 XII | as much as you like!”~And Joe went on alone with a tremendous
43 XII | become as talkative as Joe, and the two kept up a continual
44 XII | they’re the sort for me!” Joe would add. “Why, you don’
45 XII | take our breakfast?” was Joe’s unpoetical change of tune,
46 XII | Now, gentlemen,” put in Joe, “while doing the same as
47 XII | added the doctor, “that Joe, along with a thousand other
48 XII | disport itself like a bird. Joe found this splendid vegetation
49 XII | bullet-hole bring us down?” asked Joe.~“Not immediately; but such
50 XII | idea of yours, sir,” said Joe. “It’s mighty easy to manage
51 XII | What splendid trees!” cried Joe. “They’re quite natural,
52 XII | don’t stop here!” urged Joe; “let us go up, master,
53 XII | All the more willingly, Joe, that there is Mount Duthumi
54 XII | after that!”~Let us wait, Joe! we shall see by-and-by.”~
55 XII | nopal, caught on it firmly. Joe at once let himself slide
56 XII | commencing at midnight; and Joe, the three o’clock morning
57 XII | morning watch.~So Kennedy and Joe, well wrapped in their blankets,
58 XIII | ugly country this!” sighed Joe; “and it seems to me that
59 XIII | skilful manoeuvre achieved by Joe, the anchor was disengaged,
60 XIII | anchor was disengaged, and Joe reascended to the car by
61 XIII | s a cure for you!” said Joe; “why, it’s wonderful!”~“
62 XIII | to it, anyhow!” replied Joe, quite gravely.~It was a
63 XIII | satisfaction.~“Positively,” said Joe, “this is where I’ll have
64 XIII | to travel, anyhow!” said Joe, with his usual flow of
65 XIII | that we don’t try it!” said Joe, in his droll way.~“I exaggerate
66 XIII | this high very long?” asked Joe.~“The atmosphere of the
67 XIII | Well, gentlemen,” said Joe, “you may try their fall
68 XIII | boughs of a huge sycamore.~Joe, slipping nimbly down the
69 XIII | for yourself and one for Joe—and both of you try to bring
70 XIII | of the car and descended. Joe had swung himself down from
71 XIII | without us, doctor!” shouted Joe.~“Never fear, my boy!—I
72 XIV | hour’s walking, Dick and Joe plunged into a forest of
73 XIV | Without being a rifleman, Joe could handle fire-arms with
74 XIV | hunting-dogs, and, no matter what Joe’s agility might be, he could
75 XIV | clumps of shrubbery, while Joe remained motionless where
76 XIV | keep it.”~“Indeed!” said Joe, “do you think of doing
77 XIV | weight!”~“You’re right, Joe. Still it is a pity to have
78 XIV | sparkling in a minute or two.~Joe had cut some of the nicest
79 XIV | was thinking about?” said Joe.~“Why, about the steaks
80 XIV | toward us?”~“Come, come, Joe! a truce to your suppositions;
81 XIV | What’s that?” exclaimed Joe.~“It’s my rifle, I know
82 XIV | heard.~“We must hurry!” said Joe.~“There! a third report!”~“
83 XIV | God!” suddenly exclaimed Joe.~“What do you see?”~“Down
84 XIV | My master is lost!” cried Joe.~“Come! a little more coolness,
85 XIV | a little more coolness, Joe, and let us see how we stand.
86 XIV | fro in the air.~“Ha!” said Joe, halting, “what does that
87 XIV | Ah! Mr. Kennedy,” said Joe, again, in a roar of laughter, “
88 XIV | Kennedy was on the ladder, and Joe, clambering up the branches,
89 XIV | an attack for you!” said Joe.~“We thought you were surrounded
90 XIV | at hand, either,” added Joe.~“Well, however that may
91 XIV | Kennedy?”~“You were right, Joe; but, even right as you
92 XIV | tell you.”~“Good!” said Joe, with his mouth full, “I
93 XIV | the upper air.~Dick and Joe stretched themselves on
94 XIV | Never mind, let us try. Joe, throw out the anchors!”~
95 XIV | slope of the Jihoue-la-Mkoa. Joe went thither alone with
96 XIV | Jihoue-la-Mkoa. Ferguson waited for Joe with a certain feeling of
97 XIV | nearly resting on the ground. Joe then found it easy to loosen
98 XV | A Royal Drunken-Bout.— Joe an Object of Worship.—How
99 XV | though, easily enough,” said Joe; “and that would be to go
100 XV | it!”~“You, too, my good Joe—perhaps you’re to be a god!”~“
101 XV | respect. I shall descend, and Joe will go with me, only that
102 XV | powers.~“There, there,” said Joe, “they’re rather rough in
103 XV | the ground, preceded by Joe, who kept a straight countenance
104 XV | o’clock in the evening.~Joe, during his absence, had
105 XV | of barley and of “pombe.” Joe considered himself in duty
106 XV | the very midst of the fun, Joe saw the doctor approaching.~
107 XV | rapidly scaled the ladder, and Joe followed him with his usual
108 XV | what’s the matter?” asked Joe, clambering into the car.~“
109 XV | reaction in their feelings.~Joe could not, for the life
110 XV | the machine to the ground.~Joe leaned out with a hatchet
111 XV | into space.~“Huzza!” roared Joe, as the balloon—thanks to
112 XV | drop all at once?” inquired Joe.~“Oh no,” replied the doctor, “
113 XV | make a god of him!” said Joe, with a laugh.~The Victoria,
114 XVI | Starry Heavens.~“See,” said Joe, “what comes of playing
115 XVI | much the worse!” rejoined Joe. “I liked the thing—to be
116 XVI | this and other things, and Joe examined the luminary of
117 XVI | be very pleasant,” put in Joe. “Why is it that such savage
118 XVI | light.”~“Ah! sir,” said Joe, “I’d like to see all that.”~“
119 XVI | that the Americans,” said Joe, “will not have been the
120 XVI | You are right, sir,” said Joe, “the heat has got to be
121 XVI | re choking!” ejaculated Joe. “Ah! what a fine way to
122 XVI | Those are wolves.”~“No! Joe, not wolves, but wild dogs;
123 XVI | pieces.”~“Well, it isn’t Joe that’ll undertake to muzzle
124 XVI | t burst to-night,” said Joe; “the clouds are very high.”~“
125 XVI | the wind has fallen,” said Joe, again; “it would have carried
126 XVI | just now?” insisted poor Joe.~“No, thank you, my good
127 XVI | find it so!”~Kennedy and Joe stretched themselves out
128 XVI | remarked Kennedy.~“Oh!” said Joe, “it gives a little variety
129 XVII | solid ground?” murmured Joe; “it’s enough to cramp a
130 XVII | Oh, yes, indeed, my good Joe,” said the doctor, reassuring
131 XVII | We are fast!” exclaimed Joe.~These words had scarcely
132 XVII | and holds fast too!” said Joe, who was tugging at the
133 XVII | it.~“A serpent!” shouted Joe.~“A serpent!” repeated Kennedy,
134 XVII | in the right direction, Joe—in the right direction.”~
135 XVII | ahead, old fellow!” shouted Joe, with delight, doing his
136 XVII | country folks say,” shouted Joe, in high glee. “Gee-up!
137 XVII | they rival.~“In fact,” said Joe, “it’s a whale that we have
138 XVII | a solid head!” commented Joe.~“We’ll try some conical
139 XVII | than ever.~“Come!” said Joe, taking aim with another
140 XVII | As much as that?” said Joe, scrambling down to the
141 XVII | come hither to make money?”~Joe examined the anchor and
142 XVII | mean while, I hope,” added Joe, “that we’ll taste a morsel
143 XVII | doctor; “so do as you like, Joe.”~“As for me,” said the
144 XVII | the two hours’ recess that Joe has condescended to let
145 XVII | into the woods.~Forthwith Joe went to work at his vocation.
146 XVII | covered with hot coals. Then Joe piled up a second heap of
147 XVII | was cooked to a turn.~Then Joe took the viands from the
148 XVII | pleasant sight to behold, and Joe, without being too proud,
149 XVII | agile species of antelopes. Joe took upon himself to prepare
150 XVII | went no further, although Joe had, at once, selected the
151 XVII | night on the ground, and Joe arranged a circle of watch-fires
152 XVIII | for departure commenced. Joe, with the hatchet which
153 XVIII | the soil in dense clouds. Joe even came back, from securing
154 XVIII | then, on an island!” said Joe, scratching as though he’
155 XVIII | not sleep.”~Kennedy and Joe, whom scientific speculations
156 XVIII | hemisphere!”~“Ah!” said Joe, “do you think, doctor,
157 XVIII | Hurrah for the Nile!” shouted Joe, glad, and always ready
158 XVIII | said the Scot.~“Well!” said Joe, “so much the worse for
159 XVIII | you say the word!” added Joe, preparing for the fight.~“
160 XVIII | Ready it is!” said Dick and Joe, with one voice.~“Good!”~
161 XVIII | journey to you,” bawled Joe, “and if I were in your
162 XVIII | be inhabited, doctor.”~“Joe is right; and, unless I’
163 XVIII | in the fissure of a rock. Joe lost no time in sliding
164 XVIII | I am!”~“Mind your post, Joe, and keep a good lookout.”~“
165 XIX | the Arabs.—The Nyam-Nyams.—Joe’s Shrewd Cogitations.—The
166 XIX | still see cataracts,” said Joe.~“Those are the cataracts
167 XIX | Never!” said Dick and Joe together, almost in a shout.~“
168 XIX | home and distant friends. Joe alone continued to manifest
169 XIX | breakfast, seasoned with Joe’s merry pranks, put them
170 XIX | region inhabited?” asked Joe.~“Undoubtedly; and disagreeably
171 XIX | That’s it! Excellent!” said Joe, champing his teeth as though
172 XIX | eating; “Nyam-Nyam.”~“My good Joe, if you were the immediate
173 XIX | mosquitoes.”~“That may be, Joe; but we must consign the
174 XIX | particular fancy to mine!” said Joe, with comic solemnity.~“
175 XIX | of shame!”~“Well, then, Joe,” said Kennedy, “that’s
176 XIX | your service, gentlemen!”~“Joe talks in this way so as
177 XIX | him up.”~“Maybe so!” said Joe. “Every man for himself.”~
178 XIX | to be tied up with cords, Joe acquitting himself very
179 XIX | travelling incident!” said Joe.~“Should we be hurled to
180 XIX | s breakfast-time,” said Joe; “we’ll have to put up with
181 XX | clearing a village!” continued Joe, a moment or two later. “
182 XX | VERY wide!”~“Faith!” said Joe, as the Victoria skimmed
183 XX | of another!”~“Well!” said Joe, “here’s a country where
184 XX | style of gardening,” said Joe, “and I’ll import the idea
185 XX | to be pretty tall!” was Joe’s remark.~Meanwhile, during
186 XX | the doctor’s recital and Joe’s response, the forest had
187 XX | grew a solitary tree, and Joe exclaimed, as he caught
188 XX | bones. The flowers of which Joe spoke were heads freshly
189 XX | matter of fashion!” said Joe. But, already, the village
190 XX | cruel, quite as barbarous.”~Joe, by the aid of his keen
191 XX | have dozens of them,” said Joe; “if we could only manage
192 XX | Oh! we’d tame them,” said Joe. “Instead of driving them
193 XX | would stop.”~“Allow me, Joe, to prefer a favorable wind
194 XX | coming close enough for Joe to catch it with his hand.~“
195 XX | ugly acquaintances!” added Joe; “but then, if they had
196 XX | devouring it.~“Faugh!” uttered Joe, “it’s sickening.”~The balloon
197 XXI | Night Attack.—Kennedy and Joe in the Tree.—Two Shots.—“
198 XXI | happened?”~“Yes, let us waken Joe.”~The instant that Joe was
199 XXI | waken Joe.”~The instant that Joe was aroused, Kennedy told
200 XXI | confounded monkeys again!” said Joe.~“Possibly, but we must
201 XXI | must be on our guard.”~“Joe and I,” said Kennedy, “will
202 XXI | us go down, then!” said Joe.~“Don’t use your weapons,
203 XXI | place as this.”~Dick and Joe replied with signs of assent,
204 XXI | the foliage, and ere long Joe seized Kenedy’s hand as
205 XXI | was profound; however, Joe, leaning over to Kennedy’
206 XXI | the lowest possible tones.~Joe gently brought his rifle
207 XXI | the gaze of Kennedy and Joe, on a level with the very
208 XXI | Help! help!”~Kennedy and Joe, dumb with amazement, had
209 XXI | cannot be far off,” said Joe, “because—”~“Help! help!”
210 XXI | savage wretches!” exclaimed Joe, trembling with indignation. “
211 XXI | I’ll go with you,” said Joe, warmly.~“Pause, my friends—
212 XXI | was only daylight!” sighed Joe.~“Well, and suppose it were
213 XXI | powder and ball!”~“And you, Joe, what would you do?”~“I,
214 XXI | darkness as this?”~“Who knows, Joe?”~“Ah! if you can do that,
215 XXI | We’re ready,” responded Joe.~The sacks were placed as
216 XXI | Have an eye to every thing. Joe will see to throwing out
217 XXI | done until I give the word. Joe will first detach the anchor,
218 XXI | his way back to the car.”~Joe let himself slide down by
219 XXII | missionary! a priest!” exclaimed Joe.~“Poor, unfortunate man!”
220 XXII | doctor, at the word.”~“Joe, shut off the cylinder!”~
221 XXII | while, at the same moment, Joe tossed over the two hundred
222 XXII | ferocious cries.~“Ah, ha!” said Joe, “one of those cursed blacks
223 XXII | doctor, tranquilly, and Joe, leaning over, saw the savage
224 XXII | man has suffered!” said Joe, with feeling. “He did bolder
225 XXII | night, while Kennedy and Joe relieved each other in carefully
226 XXII | He seized Kennedy’s and Joe’s hands by turns in his
227 XXII | Kennedy deeply moved, and Joe drawing his hand over his
228 XXII | burden.~Toward evening, Joe discovered a great light
229 XXIII | CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD.~Joe in a Fit of Rage.—The Death
230 XXIII | Burial.—The Quartz Rocks. —Joe’s Hallucinations.—A Precious
231 XXIII | Mountains.—The Beginning of Joe’s Despair.~A magnificent
232 XXIII | not get over it!” sighed Joe. “Poor young fellow—scarcely
233 XXIII | infamous scoundrels!” exclaimed Joe, grinding his teeth, in
234 XXIII | given him a lovely night, Joe—his last on earth, perhaps!
235 XXIII | the doctor shut the valve. Joe leaped out, holding on the
236 XXIII | mean while, Kennedy and Joe had strolled away a few
237 XXIII | exclaimed Kennedy and Joe in one breath.~“Yes, a gold-mine,”
238 XXIII | Impossible! impossible!” repeated Joe.~“You would not have to
239 XXIII | of considerable value.”~Joe at once rushed like a crazy
240 XXIII | his example.~“Keep cool, Joe,” said his master.~“Why,
241 XXIII | your regret!”~“What!” said Joe, again, “abandon these treasures —
242 XXIII | All that is true,” replied Joe, “but gold! Mr. Kennedy,
243 XXIII | What could we do with them, Joe?” said the hunter, unable
244 XXIII | But, at least,” said Joe, driven to his last defences, “
245 XXIII | Thousands of crowns!” echoed Joe; “is it possible that there
246 XXIII | rather difficult to do!” said Joe, with a contrite air.~“Listen!
247 XXIII | will be so much made.”~And Joe went to work. He did so,
248 XXIII | with a smile; and, while Joe went on, he took the bearings,
249 XXIII | with the quartz-blocks that Joe’s greed had heaped in it.
250 XXIII | his customary place, and Joe followed, but not without
251 XXIII | balloon did not stir an inch.~Joe looked on uneasily, but
252 XXIII | uneasily, but kept silent.~“Joe!” said the doctor.~Joe made
253 XXIII | Joe!” said the doctor.~Joe made no reply.~“Joe! Don’
254 XXIII | doctor.~Joe made no reply.~“Joe! Don’t you hear me?”~Joe
255 XXIII | Joe! Don’t you hear me?”~Joe made a sign that he heard;
256 XXIII | forever in this desert?”~Joe cast a despairing look at
257 XXIII | nothing in the matter.~“Well, Joe?”~“Then your cylinder don’
258 XXIII | thrown off a little ballast.”~Joe scratched his ear, picked
259 XXIII | throwing.”~Kennedy laughed. Joe now threw out some ten pounds,
260 XXIII | the balloon stood still.~Joe got very pale.~“Poor fellow!”
261 XXIII | four hundred pounds!” said Joe, piteously.~“And some more
262 XXIII | can’t rise. Come, courage, Joe!”~The brave fellow, heaving
263 XXIII | yet,” said Kennedy.~And Joe, picking up one more block,
264 XXIII | surrounding summits.~“Now, Joe,” resumed the doctor, “there
265 XXIII | the balance of your days!”~Joe made no answer, but stretched
266 XXIV | Energetic Replies of Kennedy and Joe. —One Night more.~The balloon,
267 XXIV | But we’ll find some,” said Joe. “It is not to be thought
268 XXIV | don’t you think that it’s Joe’s cargo of stone that is
269 XXIV | this question only to tease Joe; and he did so the more
270 XXIV | affair off with a laugh.~Joe cast a mournful glance at
271 XXIV | wrapt in their own thoughts.~Joe, clever lad as he was, seemed
272 XXIV | Confounded heat!” said Joe, wiping away the perspiration
273 XXIV | journey, haven’t we?” asked Joe.~“In distance, yes; but
274 XXIV | altogether.”~“Come, sir,” said Joe, again, “we must not complain;
275 XXIV | pictured it to yourself, Joe! Was I not right in saying, ‘
276 XXIV | Those two men, Dick and Joe, friends of his, both of
277 XXIV | excellent master,” said Joe; “what he may have to suffer,
278 XXV | not last forever,” put in Joe; “I think I see some banks
279 XXV | of clouds in the east.”~“Joe’s right!” said the doctor,
280 XXV | a real cloud!” shouted Joe at this moment, for that
281 XXV | meditation, when he heard Joe exclaim, in tones of most
282 XXV | beautiful!”~“What’s the matter, Joe?”~“Doctor! Mr. Kennedy!
283 XXV | gone crazy?” asked Kennedy.~Joe stood there, perfectly motionless,
284 XXV | tell me?—”~“Look!” said Joe, pointing to a certain quarter
285 XXV | Kennedy.~“They are apes,” said Joe, “imitating us.”~“It means,”
286 XXV | all respect to you,” said Joe, “you’ll never make me believe
287 XXV | on the edge of the car, Joe; wave your arms, and then
288 XXV | arms, and then you’ll see.”~Joe obeyed, and all his gestures
289 XXV | It’s wonderful,” said Joe, who could not make up his
290 XXV | as you like,” continued Joe, “it’s a strange thing,
291 XXV | heat.~About four o’clock, Joe descried some object standing
292 XXV | and satisfied himself that Joe’s eyes had not been mistaken.~“
293 XXV | that does one good!” said Joe; “wasn’t it fine? Barclay
294 XXV | Victoria touched the ground; Joe and Kennedy put into the
295 XXV | energy enough for three.~Joe brought up with him some
296 XXVI | Walk.—Solitude.—Debility.—Joe’s Prospects.—He gives himself
297 XXVI | this morning, master,” said Joe; “but it will come up, perhaps,”
298 XXVI | hundred and thirteen degrees.~Joe and Kennedy, reclining at
299 XXVI | taking ground, Kennedy and Joe awoke from their stupor.~“
300 XXVI | hours neither of them spoke. Joe prepared their evening meal,
301 XXVI | not long, however, before Joe exclaimed:~“I’m choking,
302 XXVI | wind! wind!” exclaimed Joe; “enough to carry us to
303 XXVI | walk a step.”~“And I,” said Joe, “would rather sleep!”~“
304 XXVI | of his faithful follower, Joe. The latter, uneasy at his
305 XXVI | first inquiry.~“Nothing, Joe, nothing! Only a touch of
306 XXVI | And the doctor, leaning on Joe’s arm, returned along the
307 XXVI | It is absolute folly, Joe, but worthy of your noble
308 XXVI | all, I may succeed.”~“No, Joe, no! We will not separate.
309 XXVII | he exclaimed, in agony.~Joe did not open his lips. He
310 XXVII | swollen lips.~Toward evening, Joe had his turn of delirium.
311 XXVII | and weeping piteously.~Joe, himself in tears, gave
312 XXVII | he murmured hoarsely, but Joe did not hear him, for both
313 XXVII | gradually drying up, and when Joe attempted to rise he found
314 XXVII | mouth.~“Kennedy!” shouted Joe, throwing himself upon his
315 XXVII | repeated Kennedy. But Joe clung to him only the more
316 XXVII | the cry that Kennedy and Joe released each other, and
317 XXVII | The simoom!” repeated Joe, without exactly knowing
318 XXVII | places at his side.~“And now, Joe,” said the doctor, “throw
319 XXVII | pounds of your ore, there!”~Joe no longer hesitated, although
320 XXVII | doctor.~“There!” responded Joe, tossing over a huge fragment
321 XXVII | Kennedy, closely followed by Joe, leaped out.~“Take your
322 XXVII | Dick grasped his rifle, and Joe took one of the fowling-pieces.
323 XXVII | The roar of a lion!” said Joe.~“Good for that!” said the
324 XXVII | Hurrah! hurrah!” shouted Joe, with wild exultation.~Kennedy
325 XXVII | plunged his parched lips. Joe followed suit, and for some
326 XXVII | care, Mr. Kennedy,” said Joe at last; “let us not overdo
327 XXVII | But the doctor?” said Joe; “our friend, Dr. Ferguson?”~
328 XXVII | blocking up the passage! Joe, who was close upon Kennedy’
329 XXVII | Another lion!” exclaimed Joe.~“A lioness, rather,” said
330 XXVII | plan?”~“You’ll see.”~And Joe, taking off his linen jacket,
331 XXVII | down the steps, overturning Joe in her fall. The poor fellow
332 XXVII | smoking from the discharge.~Joe leaped to his feet, clambered
333 XXVIII | An Evening of Delight.—Joe’s Culinary Performance.—
334 XXVIII | James Bruce.—Camping out.—Joe’s Dreams.—The Barometer
335 XXVIII | waiting for a favorable wind.~Joe had conveyed his portable
336 XXVIII | doctor, “had it not been for Joe, you would not be sitting
337 XXVIII | Kennedy, extending his hand to Joe.~“There’s no occasion for
338 XXVIII | mean, doctor,” interposed Joe; “that element must be very
339 XXVIII | enough to hear it,” said Joe, stretching himself voluptuously
340 XXVIII | impossible.’”~“Well put in!” said Joe, “and if the Scotchman found
341 XXVIII | about our travels—”~“Well, Joe, what would you do?”~“Why,
342 XXVIII | All burst out laughing at Joe’s queer notions, and thus
343 XXVIII | with providential rapidity.~Joe would have been willing
344 XXVIII | such heat as this?” said Joe. “Well, if it’s necessary,
345 XXVIII | thing but pleasant to you, Joe.”~“Why, are there any more
346 XXVIII | and customs.”~“Pah!” said Joe, “but, after all, it’s natural
347 XXVIII | very sensible observation, Joe began to get ready his firewood
348 XXVIII | equilibrium of the balloon, and Joe was obliged to part with
349 XXVIII | the water and the gold. Joe hesitated no longer, but
350 XXVIII | the African sands!”~“And Joe there, will be the cause
351 XXVIII | some learned sage tickled Joe hugely, and made him laugh.~
352 XXVIII | that they had yet noted.~Joe arranged their bivouac for
353 XXVIII | clock in the morning, while Joe was on guard, the temperature
354 XXVIII | increased.~“Turn out!” cried Joe, arousing his companions. “
355 XXVIII | forever lost.~But fleet-footed Joe put forth his utmost speed,
356 XIX | What a pity!”~“And why, Joe?”~“Because, if the wind
357 XIX | to that, doctor?”~“Poor Joe! Another person had that
358 XIX | our style of locomotion.”~Joe, a little cut down at learning
359 XIX | are some animals,” added Joe. “Men are not far away.”~“
360 XIX | nice little walk,” said Joe, “for people who have to
361 XIX | fine hunting-country, and Joe declared that the need of
362 XIX | and a kind of snipe, which Joe served up in his best style.
363 XXX | the visitors?” inquired Joe.~“My dear fellow, we are
364 XXX | fear, anyhow, master,” said Joe.~“No; but there are races
365 XXX | be dreaded.”~“Why!” said Joe, again, “there’s something
366 XXX | that we hear on all sides?”~Joe looked attentively, and
367 XXX | so extraordinary a foe. Joe wore himself out waving
368 XXX | mounting toward the Victoria. Joe got ready to throw out ballast,
369 XXX | barbarians,” mused friend Joe, speaking his thoughts aloud.~“
370 XXXI | o’clock in the morning, Joe, who was then on watch,
371 XXXI | trips in the air!” cried Joe. “Here we are at the end
372 XXXI | or so!”~“You can do that, Joe, in the streets of London,
373 XXXI | Those giraffes,” roared Joe; “why, they’re not as big
374 XXXI | ostriches?” remonstrated Joe, again; “those are chickens,
375 XXXI | distance of only five feet.~Joe plunged a bottle into the
376 XXXI | had harpooned him,” said Joe.~“But how?”~“With one of
377 XXXI | Humph!” ejaculated Kennedy, “Joe really has an idea this
378 XXXI | That fish, as you call it, Joe, is really a mammiferous
379 XXXI | lost time.”~“Well,” said Joe, “I hope then that Mr. Kennedy
380 XXXII | hundred feet in breadth. Joe called attention to the
381 XXXII | beetle.~At this moment, Joe, who was scanning the horizon,
382 XXXII | thing for you!”~“What is it, Joe?”~“This time, the doctor
383 XXXII | Fourteen, exactly!” said Joe.~“Heaven grant that they
384 XXXII | scream! What a noise!” said Joe.~“Perhaps they don’t like
385 XXXII | two-barrelled fowling-pieces and Joe was taking aim with another.~
386 XXXII | with his first shot, and Joe broke the wing of another.~“
387 XXXII | water-tanks! Do you hear me, Joe? We are pitching into the
388 XXXII | pitching into the lake!”~Joe obeyed. The doctor leaned
389 XXXII | Yes, there is!” called Joe, and with a wave of the
390 XXXII | over the edge of the car.~“Joe! Joe!” exclaimed the doctor,
391 XXXII | the edge of the car.~“Joe! Joe!” exclaimed the doctor,
392 XXXIII | to the doctor.~“Perhaps Joe is not lost after all,”
393 XXXIII | equilibrium, and should our poor Joe return we shall find a way
394 XXXIII | our misfortune, and should Joe fall into their hands, what
395 XXXIII | accordingly, and he made up for Joe’s weight with a surplus
396 XXXIII | heard the voice of poor Joe; but, alas! the voice that
397 XXXIII | things, it is important that Joe should hear from us in some
398 XXXIII | water throughout the day. Joe cannot fail to see us, and
399 XXXIII | search the water’s edge, for Joe will assuredly try to reach
400 XXXIII | great difficulty —which to Joe would have been nothing—
401 XXXIII | expected at every moment to see Joe spring up out of some thicket,
402 XXXIII | he, “and even alight. For Joe’s sake, particularly, we
403 XXXIII | out of the question that Joe should have been detained
404 XXXIII | Tchad.~As for supposing that Joe had been drowned, that was
405 XXXIII | islands or of the lake, and Joe will have skill enough to
406 XXXIV | But, doctor, what of Joe?”~“I am not likely to abandon
407 XXXIV | were shaking hands!”~“Poor Joe! kindly and excellent disposition!
408 XXXIV | country.”~“Ah! my dear Dick! Joe doesn’t know one word of
409 XXXIV | journey than not return. Joe forgot himself for our sake;
410 XXXV | THIRTY-FIFTH.~What happened to Joe.—The Island of the Biddiomahs.—
411 XXXV | Cry.~What had become of Joe, while his master was thus
412 XXXV | Satisfied on this point, Joe began to think of himself.
413 XXXV | then by the waist.~Poor Joe! he gave one last thought
414 XXXV | strange cries.~“Ha!” said Joe, “blacks instead of crocodiles!
415 XXXV | bathing in such places?”~Joe was not aware that the inhabitants
416 XXXV | inoffensive.~But had not Joe escaped one peril only to
417 XXXV | have their own way, then.”~Joe was at this stage of his
418 XXXV | up into the sky!”~While Joe’s thoughts were running
419 XXXV | as he was entering it, Joe cast an uneasy look at the
420 XXXV | contortions and grimaces.~Joe could catch the sound of
421 XXXV | his gloomy thoughts, and Joe fell into a profound slumber,
422 XXXV | that it had soon mounted to Joe’s waist.~“What can this
423 XXXV | for the land-owners!” said Joe, once more vigorously resorting
424 XXXV | had liberated our brave Joe. More than one island, that
425 XXXV | these terrible catastrophes.~Joe knew nothing about this
426 XXXV | couple of paddles in it, and Joe, availing himself of a rapid
427 XXXV | among its branches, and Joe climbed up into it for greater
428 XXXV | the equatorial regions, Joe cast a glance at the tree
429 XXXV | rays of the morning sun! Joe experienced a keen sensation
430 XXXV | after what he had just seen, Joe determined to be more circumspect
431 XXXV | to his own calculations, Joe was enabled to push on about
432 XXXV | in less than two hours, Joe had not a rag remaining
433 XXXV | with a hideous concert. Joe dared scarcely breathe.
434 XXXV | length, day came again, and Joe sprang to his feet precipitately;
435 XXXV | him with huge round eyes. Joe felt his stomach revolt
436 XXXV | and walking on rapidly, Joe came right upon a horde
437 XXXV | of ceremonial solemnity.~Joe, entirely motionless and
438 XXXV | disappearing in the distant sky. Joe still determined to wait
439 XXXV | farther to the eastward. Joe ran, gesticulated, shouted—
440 XXXVI | Manoeuvres.—Caught up flying.—Joe saved at last.~From the
441 XXXVI | He is pursued!”~“It is Joe—Joe himself!” cried the
442 XXXVI | is pursued!”~“It is Joe—Joe himself!” cried the doctor,
443 XXXVI | them, and provided that Joe’s horse holds out!”~“Great
444 XXXVI | cry of despair as he saw Joe fling himself to the ground.
445 XXXVI | longer restrain his feelings.~Joe, who had immediately sprung
446 XXXVI | very perceptibly gaining on Joe, and was about to pierce
447 XXXVI | hurled him to the earth.~Joe did not even turn his head
448 XXXVI | their pursuit.~“But what is Joe about?” said Kennedy; “he
449 XXXVI | Otherwise, we should miss Joe, and he would be lost.”~“
450 XXXVI | desperately urging their steeds at Joe’s heels. The doctor, standing
451 XXXVI | at any moment. Meanwhile, Joe had still maintained the
452 XXXVI | to Kennedy.~“I’m ready!”~“Joe, look out for yourself!”
453 XXXVI | As the doctor shouted, Joe had turned his head, but
454 XXXVI | by a weight greater than Joe’s, shot up one hundred and
455 XXXVI | fifty feet into the air.~Joe clung with all his strength
456 XXXVI | Master! Kennedy!” ejaculated Joe, and overwhelmed, at last,
457 XXXVI | his phlegmatic coolness.~Joe was almost naked. His bleeding
458 XXXVI | comfortably under the awning.~Joe soon returned to consciousness,
459 XXXVI | swallowed the stimulant, Joe grasped the hands of his
460 XXXVI | hundred miles since rescuing Joe, it passed the tenth degree
461 XXXVII | THIRTY-SEVENTH.~The Western Route.—Joe wakes up.—His Obstinacy.—
462 XXXVII | up.—His Obstinacy.—End of Joe’s Narrative.—Tagelei.—Kennedy’
463 XXXVII | kept watch by turns, and Joe availed himself of the chance
464 XXXVII | in better health,” said Joe, at that instant thrusting
465 XXXVII | cordially.—“How goes it, Joe?”~“Oh! why, naturally enough,
466 XXXVII | said Ferguson, pressing Joe’s hand, “what terrible anxiety
467 XXXVII | never agree in the world, Joe, if you take things in that
468 XXXVII | way to settle it,” replied Joe, “is to say nothing more
469 XXXVII | wasted his time.”~“All right, Joe!”~“Well, let us see then
470 XXXVII | comfortably stowed away. Joe took his own good share,
471 XXXVII | upon Lake Tchad.~At length Joe, continuing his recital,
472 XXXVII | mentioning.”~“My noble, gallant Joe!” said the doctor, with
473 XXXVII | matters as they come.”~While Joe was telling his experience,
474 XXXVII | Timbuctoo?”~“Certainly,” said Joe; “nobody nowadays can think
475 XXXVII | Sleep, sir; sleep!” urged Joe. “And you, doctor, do the
476 XXXVIII| journey.~During the day Joe dressed the last pieces
477 XXXVIII| sight of these birds led Joe to compliment his master
478 XXXVIII| You are right, friend Joe,” said the doctor, “only
479 XXXVIII| far from the coast?” asked Joe.~“Which coast, my boy? How
480 XXXVIII| evening.”~“Then,” remarked Joe, pointing to a long file
481 XXXVIII| their feet almost instantly.~Joe inquired how the Arabs managed
482 XXXVIII| Africa.”~“By-the-way,” put in Joe, “that reminds me of what
483 XXXVIII| been discovered?” asked Joe.~“Long since,” replied the
484 XXXVIII| Easy to jump over,” said Joe.~“How’s that? Easy you think,
485 XXXVIII| word of that!” persisted Joe.~“Oh, by all means!—Five
486 XXXVIII| became of this Lander?” asked Joe, deeply interested.~“He
487 XLIX | appalling aspect.”~“Faith!” said Joe, “I wouldn’t like to be
488 XLIX | satisfied?” half queried Joe.~“Delighted, my boy!”~“Very
489 XLIX | added Kennedy.~“Bah!” said Joe; “I wouldn’t be afraid if
490 XLIX | have to be able to do that, Joe!”~“And what’s wanting, doctor?”~“
491 XLIX | big and stout.”~“Just like Joe,” said Kennedy; “just the
492 XLIX | to discover them,” said Joe, “if they were not known
493 XLIX | a pinch?”~“Not exactly, Joe; but don’t be alarmed: I
494 XL | Sego.—Change of the Wind.—Joe’s Regrets.~The flow of the
495 XL | the actual situation when Joe said aloud:~“There! the
496 XL | saw the like of it,” added Joe.~“I breathe freely again!”
497 XL | Not a cloud?” queried Joe, with surprise.~“No; it
498 XL | beholding!”~“Wait a little, Joe. In ten minutes that cloud
499 XL | complete sterility.~“Well, Joe, what do you think of that?”~“
500 XL | prawns of the air,” said Joe, who added that he was sorry
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