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1 I | follow my route;” he often said, “it is my route that follows
2 III | hoax—~“Not a bit of it!” said he. “Don’t I know my man?
3 III | was conceived.”~“Folly!” said the doctor.~“Is what this
4 III | to me for ten minutes,” said the doctor, “you will thank
5 III | alone.”~“Let us sit down,” said Kennedy, “and talk without
6 III | them.~“My dear Samuel,” said the sportsman, “your project
7 III | repeat.~“Well, then,” he said, after an hour’s discussion, “
8 III | the rub!”~“Come, then,” said the doctor, “what have I
9 III | in space.~“Come, come,” said he, at last. “Let us see,
10 III | same.”~“Ah! yes, indeed!” said Kennedy, reflecting; “the
11 III | launch ourselves.”~“We!” said Dick.~“Have you still a
12 III | Excelsior’ be it then,” said the sportsman, who did not
13 V | that conjunction.~“But,” said the doctor, “are you not
14 V | extent.”~“Well planned,” said Kennedy.~“You can easily
15 V | heart of Africa.”~“On foot?” said Kennedy.~“Yes, on foot,”
16 V | in Alexandria, in 1860, said that he was killed at the
17 V | Mr. Muntzinger.~“Well,” said the canny Scot, “since every
18 VI | exactly right; every thing he said, the perfection of wisdom;
19 VI | with us!”~“Oh! certainly,” said Kennedy; “that is to say,
20 VI | his scheme.”~“By-the-way,” said Joe, “you know that the
21 VI | let myself be weighed,” said Kennedy, firmly.~“But, sir,
22 VI | Aye! that I will.”~“Well!” said Joe with a laugh, “you say
23 VI | altogether at his ease.~“Dick,” said the doctor, “come with Joe;
24 VI | without making any resistance, said, in an undertone:~“Oh! well,
25 VI | and fifty-three pounds,” said the doctor, noting it down
26 VI | Why, no, Mr. Kennedy!” said Joe; “and then, you know,
27 VI | wrote the doctor.~“Ah! ha!” said Joe, with a smile of satisfaction
28 VI | himself.~“It’s my turn now,” said Ferguson—and he put down
29 VI | account.~“All three of us,” said he, “do not weigh much more
30 VI | hundred pounds.”~“But, sir,” said Joe, “if it was necessary
31 VIII | astonishes you, does it?” said Ferguson.~“It does, indeed.”~“
32 VIII | you will encounter such,” said Captain Bennet. “There are
33 VIII | alight.”~“Ah! Mr. Kennedy,” said a young midshipman, with
34 VIII | have!”~“Without counting,” said another, “that you’ll have
35 VIII | doctor.~“Never mind him!” said the latter, calmly. “This
36 VIII | going.”~“By Saint Andrew!” said Kennedy, “I swear—”~“Swear
37 IX | you’ll go to the moon!” said one of the crowd, with a
38 IX | of the real stuff there?” said a sailor who liked his toddy.~“
39 IX | go so high up as that?” said one of the ship-boys, gaping
40 IX | together.~“Solemn truth!” said Joe, stoutly.~“But what
41 IX | back from that expedition,” said the indefatigable narrator, “
42 IX | d have well earned it!” said the sailors.~Thus passed
43 IX | about it.~“I don’t think,” said he, “that we shall succeed
44 IX | that aerostatic science has said its last word?”~“Not at
45 IX | been without gas!”~“But you said nothing about that in England?”~“
46 X | often been made, gentlemen,” said the doctor, “to rise and
47 X | and it runs, as I have said, into the upper beds of
48 X | above.~“Besides, as I have said, I have a certain quantity
49 X | and decided.~“However,” said the captain, “the thing
50 XI | incredulous.~“I doubted,” said he, holding out his hand
51 XI | shall manage to avoid,” said the doctor.~The baggage
52 XI | certainly come out winners,” he said. “Even the imaum’s soldiers
53 XI | run.”~“Just the thing!” said the doctor, “and we shall
54 XI | doctor, grasped his hand, and said:~“Samuel, have you absolutely
55 XI | I was sure you would!” said the doctor, betraying in
56 XII | flight.~“How fine that is!” said Joe, breaking silence for
57 XII | foam.~“You don’t talk?” said Joe, again.~“We are looking!”
58 XII | again.~“We are looking!” said the doctor, directing his
59 XII | Out upon stage-coaches!” said one.~“Steamers indeed!”
60 XII | one.~“Steamers indeed!” said the other.~“Railroads! eh?
61 XII | much coffee as you like,” said the doctor. “I give you
62 XII | heads.”~“Not precisely,” said Ferguson, “but still if
63 XII | Tounda.~“It was there,” said the doctor, “that Burton
64 XII | armed with muskets,” he said, “and our balloon would
65 XII | mountains not far off.”~“Yes,” said Kennedy, “it seems to me
66 XII | grant idea of yours, sir,” said Joe. “It’s mighty easy to
67 XII | we are more at our ease,” said the sportsman, as the balloon
68 XII | avenged so hideous a crime?” said Kennedy.~“France did demand
69 XII | demand satisfaction, and the Said of Zanzibar did all in his
70 XII | might have been correctly said that he held his balloon
71 XIII | and I think he’s right,” said the doctor, “one could readily
72 XIII | have quite a high fever,” said the sportsman.~“There’s
73 XIII | ll soon get over this,” said the doctor.~“Get over it!
74 XIII | There’s a cure for you!” said Joe; “why, it’s wonderful!”~“
75 XIII | beats sulphate of quinine!” said the energetic Scot, with
76 XIII | satisfaction.~“Positively,” said Joe, “this is where I’ll
77 XIII | right among the breakers!” said Kennedy.~“Keep cool, Dick.
78 XIII | way to travel, anyhow!” said Joe, with his usual flow
79 XIII | over that drenched soil,” said he, “we should still be
80 XIII | move that we don’t try it!” said Joe, in his droll way.~“
81 XIII | palmyra trees.~“Attention!” said Dr. Ferguson. “We are approaching
82 XIII | of six thousand fathoms,” said the doctor; “and, with a
83 XIII | themselves.”~“Well, gentlemen,” said Joe, “you may try their
84 XIII | suddenly died away.~“Now,” said Ferguson, “take two guns,
85 XIII | must rally home.”~“Agreed!” said Kennedy; and off they went.~
86 XIV | ground in the world,” he said, kicking aside some fragments
87 XIV | as to keep it.”~“Indeed!” said Joe, “do you think of doing
88 XIV | that won’t take long,” said Kennedy, going to work on
89 XIV | will tickle the doctor!” said Kennedy.~“Do you know what
90 XIV | what I was thinking about?” said Joe.~“Why, about the steaks
91 XIV | I know the ring of her!” said Kennedy.~“A signal!”~“Yes;
92 XIV | heard.~“We must hurry!” said Joe.~“There! a third report!”~“
93 XIV | and fro in the air.~“Ha!” said Joe, halting, “what does
94 XIV | hold by?”~“No matter what!” said Kennedy; “let us run! let
95 XIV | run!”~“Ah! Mr. Kennedy,” said Joe, again, in a roar of
96 XIV | they’re worse than men!” said Kennedy, as he dashed into
97 XIV | was an attack for you!” said Joe.~“We thought you were
98 XIV | fortunately, they were only apes,” said the doctor.~“At a distance
99 XIV | appetite.”~“I believe you!” said the doctor; “the flesh of
100 XIV | at, I tell you.”~“Good!” said Joe, with his mouth full, “
101 XIV | has gone well thus far,” said he.~“Very well indeed!”
102 XIV | accident happen, waken me,” said Ferguson, “and, above all
103 XIV | are on the right track,” said Dr. Ferguson. “There’s Jihoue-la-Mkoa,
104 XIV | o’clock in the morning,” said the doctor, consulting his
105 XV | huts.~“My dear doctor,” said Kennedy, “if we continue
106 XV | though, easily enough,” said Joe; “and that would be
107 XV | get rich that way!”~“Ah!” said the doctor, “these natives
108 XV | their style of praying,” said the doctor; “and, if I’m
109 XV | addressing the crowd, he said:~“The moon, taking compassion
110 XV | motion.~“Now, my friends,” said Dr. Ferguson, “we must look
111 XV | powers.~“There, there,” said Joe, “they’re rather rough
112 XV | ladies! worship me!” he said to them. “I’m a clever sort
113 XV | you’re dancing, are you?” said he. “Well, I won’t be behind
114 XV | Not a moment to lose!” said the doctor. “Don’t attempt
115 XV | ready. “Shall I cut away?” said he.~“No; wait a moment,”
116 XV | rapidity.~“He holds on well,” said Kennedy; “a little trip
117 XV | them to make a god of him!” said Joe, with a laugh.~The Victoria,
118 XVI | The Starry Heavens.~“See,” said Joe, “what comes of playing
119 XVI | the country of the Moon,” said Dr. Ferguson; “for it has
120 XVI | things?”~“And who knows,” said the doctor, “that this country
121 XVI | brought to light.”~“Ah! sir,” said Joe, “I’d like to see all
122 XVI | morning, my boy!”~“Besides,” said Kennedy, “that may prove
123 XVI | add that the Americans,” said Joe, “will not have been
124 XVI | You are right, sir,” said Joe, “the heat has got to
125 XVI | euphorbiae.~“I am stifling!” said the Scot, inhaling, with
126 XVI | descend!”~“But the tempest!” said the doctor, with much uneasiness.~“
127 XVI | storm won’t burst to-night,” said Joe; “the clouds are very
128 XVI | that the wind has fallen,” said Joe, again; “it would have
129 XVI | will keep watch with you,” said the hunter.~“No, my friends,
130 XVI | moment.~“Shall we descend?” said Kennedy.~“No! the balloon
131 XVI | fire.~“God protect us!” said Dr. Ferguson, solemnly, “
132 XVI | ourselves at this height,” said the doctor.~“It was frightful!”
133 XVI | remarked Kennedy.~“Oh!” said Joe, “it gives a little
134 XVII | Here we are at last,” said the doctor, “in an unexplored
135 XVII | are in the right track,” said the doctor, consulting his
136 XVII | yes, indeed, my good Joe,” said the doctor, reassuring him; “
137 XVII | holds, and holds fast too!” said Joe, who was tugging at
138 XVII | handling his rifle.~“No,” said the doctor, “it’s an elephant’
139 XVII | Samuel?”~And, as Kennedy said this, he drew his rifle
140 XVII | where is he taking us to?” said Kennedy, whose rifle itched
141 XVII | should need arise.~“But,” said he, “we shall not give up
142 XVII | speed they rival.~“In fact,” said Joe, “it’s a whale that
143 XVII | behind the shoulder-joint,” said Kennedy, reloading his rifle
144 XVII | faster than ever.~“Come!” said Joe, taking aim with another
145 XVII | A bullet in his heart!” said Kennedy, discharging one
146 XVII | pounds.”~“As much as that?” said Joe, scrambling down to
147 XVII | sighing over it, Dick?” said the doctor. “Are we ivory
148 XVII | What a splendid beast!” said Kennedy, “what a mass of
149 XVII | A good arrangement!” said the doctor; “so do as you
150 XVII | like, Joe.”~“As for me,” said the hunter, “I shall avail
151 XVIII | are, then, on an island!” said Joe, scratching as though
152 XVIII | our own hemisphere!”~“Ah!” said Joe, “do you think, doctor,
153 XVIII | to moisten it.”~“Good!” said the doctor, laughing. “Let
154 XVIII | Well, we shall see!” said Kennedy.~About nine o’clock
155 XVIII | secret of its source!”~“But,” said the Scotchman, “how are
156 XVIII | would be a ticklish matter!” said the Scot.~“Well!” said Joe, “
157 XVIII | said the Scot.~“Well!” said Joe, “so much the worse
158 XVIII | Nevertheless, descend I must,” said the doctor, “were it only
159 XVIII | The thing suits me,” said Kennedy, toying with his
160 XVIII | ninety miles from Gondokoro,” said the doctor, measuring off
161 XVIII | what may.”~“Ready it is!” said Dick and Joe, with one voice.~“
162 XVIII | all that.”~“Come, Dick,” said the doctor, as he touched
163 XVIII | carefully noted.~“And now,” said he—“now for the balloon!”~“
164 XIX | the Nile.~“One last look,” said the doctor, “at this impassable
165 XIX | can still see cataracts,” said Joe.~“Those are the cataracts
166 XIX | the top of a mountain,” said the hunter.~“That is Mount
167 XIX | slanting current.~“My friends,” said the doctor, “here is where
168 XIX | courage, shall we?”~“Never!” said Dick and Joe together, almost
169 XIX | in Arab tradition, it is said to tremble the instant that
170 XIX | any truth in that idea,” said the doctor.~“But how did
171 XIX | could be more correct,” said Kennedy. “It was by the
172 XIX | That’s it! Excellent!” said Joe, champing his teeth
173 XIX | particular fancy to mine!” said Joe, with comic solemnity.~“
174 XIX | comic solemnity.~“See that!” said Kennedy.~“Yes, indeed, sir;
175 XIX | shame!”~“Well, then, Joe,” said Kennedy, “that’s understood;
176 XIX | fatten him up.”~“Maybe so!” said Joe. “Every man for himself.”~
177 XIX | double importance for us,” said the doctor; “in the first
178 XIX | disagreeable travelling incident!” said Joe.~“Should we be hurled
179 XIX | kind may happen to us,” said the hunter. “Up to this
180 XIX | It’s breakfast-time,” said Joe; “we’ll have to put
181 XX | without advancing much,” said Kennedy, remarking the frequent
182 XX | gliding away beneath us!” said the doctor.~“See! that forest
183 XX | they should be astonished,” said the doctor. “The French
184 XX | eyes VERY wide!”~“Faith!” said Joe, as the Victoria skimmed
185 XX | part of another!”~“Well!” said Joe, “here’s a country where
186 XX | new style of gardening,” said Joe, “and I’ll import the
187 XX | war-tree of these cannibals!” said the doctor; “the Indians
188 XX | mere matter of fashion!” said Joe. But, already, the village
189 XX | more cruel than hanging!” said the Scot; “filthier, that’
190 XX | us from their attacks!” said the doctor, “they are more
191 XX | or savage tribes.”~“Bah!” said the hunter, “we can drive
192 XX | I have dozens of them,” said Joe; “if we could only manage
193 XX | Oh! we’d tame them,” said Joe. “Instead of driving
194 XX | What a frightful scene!” said Kennedy, with profound disgust.~“
195 XX | hand in at that fight,” said the hunter, brandishing
196 XX | sick of this spectacle,” said the doctor.~But they could
197 XXI | in a moment.~“Silence!” said Dick. “Let us speak below
198 XXI | confounded monkeys again!” said Joe.~“Possibly, but we must
199 XXI | our guard.”~“Joe and I,” said Kennedy, “will climb down
200 XXI | Let us go down, then!” said Joe.~“Don’t use your weapons,
201 XXI | The noise is increasing,” said Kennedy, again, after a
202 XXI | shoulder as he spoke.~“Wait!” said Kennedy.~Some of the natives
203 XXI | were clinging.~“Attention!” said Kennedy. “Fire!”~The double
204 XXI | perhaps.”~“Poor wretch!” said Kennedy, “they’re assassinating
205 XXI | can be no doubt of it,” he said; “some unfortunate Frenchman
206 XXI | captive cannot be far off,” said Joe, “because—”~“Help! help!”
207 XXI | down to the poor fellow?” said Kennedy.~“And I’ll go with
208 XXI | And I’ll go with you,” said Joe, warmly.~“Pause, my
209 XXI | reassure him, on that score,” said Dr. Ferguson —and, standing
210 XXI | suppose it were daylight?” said the doctor, in a singular
211 XXI | Nothing more simple, doctor,” said Kennedy. “I’d go down and
212 XXI | But let us act at once!” said the hunter.~“Perhaps we
213 XXI | hunter.~“Perhaps we may,” said the doctor, throwing considerable
214 XXI | good order.~“Very good!” said the doctor. “Have an eye
215 XXII | Poor, unfortunate man!” said Kennedy.~“We must save him,
216 XXII | ferocious cries.~“Ah, ha!” said Joe, “one of those cursed
217 XXII | thousand feet.~“What’s that?” said Kennedy, who had nearly
218 XXII | fainting-fit.~“He is dying!” said Kennedy.~“No,” replied the
219 XXII | companion! Have you any hope?” said the Scot.~“Yes, Dick, with
220 XXII | that man has suffered!” said Joe, with feeling. “He did
221 XXII | Science has its heroes,” said the missionary.~“But religion
222 XXII | are daring travellers!” he said, “and you will succeed in
223 XXII | your native language,” he said to the sufferer; “I understand
224 XXII | I have no regrets,” he said, “for the life that is passing
225 XXII | belongs to God!”~“Hope still!” said the doctor; “we are near
226 XXII | ask so much of Heaven,” said the priest, with resignation. “
227 XXII | volcano in full activity,” said he.~“But the wind is carrying
228 XXII | then at a safe height!” said the doctor.~Three hours
229 XXII | escaping.~“How grand it is!” said he, “and how infinite is
230 XXIII | do nothing to save him,” said the doctor, despairingly.~“
231 XXIII | effulgence.~“My friends,” said he, in an enfeebled voice, “
232 XXIII | bathed in hot tears.~“Dead!” said the doctor, bending over
233 XXIII | is a singular discovery!” said the doctor, mentally.~In
234 XXIII | breath.~“Yes, a gold-mine,” said the doctor, quietly. “Those
235 XXIII | example.~“Keep cool, Joe,” said his master.~“Why, doctor,
236 XXIII | exciting your regret!”~“What!” said Joe, again, “abandon these
237 XXIII | could we do with them, Joe?” said the hunter, unable to repress
238 XXIII | pocket.”~“But, at least,” said Joe, driven to his last
239 XXIII | Very good! I consent,” said the doctor, “but you must
240 XXIII | rather difficult to do!” said Joe, with a contrite air.~“
241 XXIII | God will recognize it!” said Kennedy.~An anxiety of another
242 XXIII | but kept silent.~“Joe!” said the doctor.~Joe made no
243 XXIII | your cylinder don’t work,” said the obstinate fellow.~“My
244 XXIII | did not budge.~“Humph!” said he; “we’re not going up
245 XXIII | going up yet.”~“Not yet,” said the doctor. “Keep on throwing.”~
246 XXIII | very pale.~“Poor fellow!” said the doctor. “Mr. Kennedy,
247 XXIII | away four hundred pounds!” said Joe, piteously.~“And some
248 XXIII | invariable response.~“It moves!” said he, at last.~“Keep on!”
249 XXIII | m sure.”~“Keep on yet,” said Kennedy.~And Joe, picking
250 XXIV | are not making progress,” said the doctor. “If I am not
251 XXIV | But we’ll find some,” said Joe. “It is not to be thought
252 XXIV | calculation!~“Fifty-four hours!” said the doctor to his companions. “
253 XXIV | We cannot go any faster,” said the doctor; “we no longer
254 XXIV | yet.”~“Confounded heat!” said Joe, wiping away the perspiration
255 XXIV | altogether.”~“Come, sir,” said Joe, again, “we must not
256 XXIV | of my excellent master,” said Joe; “what he may have to
257 XXIV | the hand.~“Now, hear me!” said the doctor. “According to
258 XXIV | wait with resignation,” said the hunter.~But, each of
259 XXV | right in the open desert,” said the doctor. “Look at that
260 XXV | the east.”~“Joe’s right!” said the doctor, after he had
261 XXV | had taken a look.~“Good!” said Kennedy; “now for our clouds,
262 XXV | the poor fellow’s brain?” said the doctor, turning toward
263 XXV | Will you tell me?—”~“Look!” said Joe, pointing to a certain
264 XXV | look! doctor!”~“I see it!” said the doctor, very quietly.~“
265 XXV | as the Victoria.~“Well,” said the doctor, “nothing remains
266 XXV | Kennedy.~“They are apes,” said Joe, “imitating us.”~“It
267 XXV | imitating us.”~“It means,” said the doctor, laughing, “that
268 XXV | with all respect to you,” said Joe, “you’ll never make
269 XXV | the effect of the MIRAGE,” said the doctor, “and nothing
270 XXV | is all.~“It’s wonderful,” said Joe, who could not make
271 XXV | curious sight! Do you know,” said Kennedy, “that it’s a real
272 XXV | mistaken.~“At length!” he said, over and over again, “water!
273 XXV | Ah! that does one good!” said Joe; “wasn’t it fine? Barclay
274 XXV | pale.~“Let us not alight!” said Kennedy, “let us fly from
275 XXVI | wind this morning, master,” said Joe; “but it will come up,
276 XXVI | make one final effort,” he said, at last, about ten o’clock
277 XXVI | stupor.~“We have halted,” said the Scot.~“We had to do
278 XXVI | none could be precisely said to have slept. On the morrow
279 XXVI | The sand scorches me,” said the hunter, “as though it
280 XXVI | exercise.~“Come along!” he said to his companions; “believe
281 XXVI | Out of the question!” said Kennedy; “I could not walk
282 XXVI | not walk a step.”~“And I,” said Joe, “would rather sleep!”~“
283 XXVII | meant.~“So much the better!” said Kennedy, with the bitterness
284 XXVII | his side.~“And now, Joe,” said the doctor, “throw out some
285 XXVII | ascend.~“It was high time!” said the doctor.~The simoom,
286 XXVII | we’ll find water there!” said the doctor.~And, instantly,
287 XXVII | Take your guns with you!” said the doctor; “take your guns,
288 XXVII | them.~“The roar of a lion!” said Joe.~“Good for that!” said
289 XXVII | said Joe.~“Good for that!” said the excited hunter; “we’
290 XXVII | Take care, Mr. Kennedy,” said Joe at last; “let us not
291 XXVII | coolness.~“But the doctor?” said Joe; “our friend, Dr. Ferguson?”~
292 XXVII | Joe.~“A lioness, rather,” said Kennedy. “Ah! ferocious
293 XXVIII | Whole-hearted friend!” said Kennedy, extending his hand
294 XXVIII | t boggle much about it!” said Kennedy.~“Yes; but then
295 XXVIII | It is disgusting enough,” said the doctor, “that’s a fact;
296 XXVIII | time enough to hear it,” said Joe, stretching himself
297 XXVIII | the eating of raw flesh, said that the thing was neither
298 XXVIII | the African style.~“‘Sir,’ said he to the Scotchman, ‘in
299 XXVIII | impossible.’”~“Well put in!” said Joe, “and if the Scotchman
300 XXVIII | it.~“But, my dear Dick,” said the doctor, “haven’t you
301 XXVIII | in such heat as this?” said Joe. “Well, if it’s necessary,
302 XXVIII | manners and customs.”~“Pah!” said Joe, “but, after all, it’
303 XIX | civilized country at last!” said the hunter.~“Civilized?
304 XIX | long before we see them,” said Ferguson, “at our present
305 XIX | The country is superb!” said the doctor.~“Here are some
306 XIX | A nice little walk,” said Joe, “for people who have
307 XIX | the Waters.”~“This river,” said the doctor to his companions, “
308 XXX | It might almost have been said that Ferguson managed it
309 XXX | desirable thing, after all,” said the Scot, “in the point
310 XXX | to the cause of science,” said Kennedy.~“Yes, this country
311 XXX | Barth.~“You perceive,” said he, “that the labors of
312 XXX | to fear, anyhow, master,” said Joe.~“No; but there are
313 XXX | more to be dreaded.”~“Why!” said Joe, again, “there’s something
314 XXX | the ground.~“Here we are!” said the doctor, “nearer to Kernak
315 XXX | That’s really curious!” said the doctor, somewhat puzzled
316 XXX | we may sleep in quiet,” said the doctor.~“Not badly got
317 XXXI | north-northeast.~“We are in luck!” said he; “every thing works in
318 XXXI | you had harpooned him,” said Joe.~“But how?”~“With one
319 XXXI | pachydermal species. Its flesh is said to be excellent and is an
320 XXXI | for lost time.”~“Well,” said Joe, “I hope then that Mr.
321 XXXII | was scanning the horizon, said to Kennedy:~“There, sir,
322 XXXII | them.”~“Fourteen, exactly!” said Joe.~“Heaven grant that
323 XXXII | they scream! What a noise!” said Joe.~“Perhaps they don’t
324 XXXII | no need of such weapons,” said Ferguson, looking very grave.~
325 XXXII | seem to mean mischief!” said the hunter, cocking his
326 XXXII | They are following us!” said the doctor, as he saw them
327 XXXII | answer.~“Listen, Samuel!” said the sportsman. “There are
328 XXXII | another.~“Only eleven left,” said he.~Thereupon the birds
329 XXXIII | not lost after all,” he said. “He was a skilful lad,
330 XXXIII | Yes, I recollect it,” said the doctor, “but that island,
331 XXXIII | considering what should be done,” said he, “to find our companion.”~“
332 XXXIII | Let us set out, then!” said the hunter.~The doctor hereupon
333 XXXIII | affright.~“We can see nothing,” said Kennedy, after two hours
334 XXXIII | absolutely come to a halt,” said he, “and even alight. For
335 XXXIII | at last that the doctor said, without further preface:~“
336 XXXIV | We must be off, Dick,” said the doctor; “we cannot remain
337 XXXIV | been tempting Providence,” said he; “it does not belong
338 XXXIV | halt, we cannot alight!” said the doctor; “not a tree,
339 XXXV | odor reached him.~“There!” said he to himself, “just what
340 XXXV | uttered strange cries.~“Ha!” said Joe, “blacks instead of
341 XXXV | waist.~“What can this be?” said he; “a flood! a water-spout!
342 XXXV | country for the land-owners!” said Joe, once more vigorously
343 XXXV | us see where we are,” he said. “The polar-star there,
344 XXXV | would never have believed!” said he.~He was not aware that
345 XXXVI | turned toward the doctor and said:~“If I am not greatly mistaken
346 XXXVI | another contrary breeze?” said the doctor, “another whirlwind
347 XXXVI | hunting manoeuvre, evidently,” said Kennedy. “Those fellows
348 XXXVI | little!”~“It’s curious,” said Kennedy again, after a brief
349 XXXVI | He will see us, though!” said the doctor, lowering the
350 XXXVI | But what is Joe about?” said Kennedy; “he don’t stop!”~“
351 XXXVII | s the remedy he needs,” said Dr. Ferguson. “Nature will
352 XXXVII | Nor in better health,” said Joe, at that instant thrusting
353 XXXVII | doctor?”~“Brave fellow!” said Ferguson, pressing Joe’s
354 XXXVII | settlement with that youth,” said the sportsman.~“The best
355 XXXVII | You obstinate fellow!” said the doctor, laughing; “you
356 XXXVII | I thought I was gone,” said he, “and as you came right
357 XXXVII | desert. ‘That suits me!’ said I, ‘for I can see better
358 XXXVII | And besides, master, as I said a while ago, it’s not worth
359 XXXVII | My noble, gallant Joe!” said the doctor, with great feeling. “
360 XXXVII | Damerghou country.~“Here,” said he, “we come upon Dr. Barth’
361 XXXVII | returned to Europe.”~“Then,” said Kennedy, following out on
362 XXXVII | Timbuctoo?”~“Certainly,” said Joe; “nobody nowadays can
363 XXXVII | carry us westward.”~“Good!” said the hunter. “But have we
364 XXXVII | least.”~“In that case,” said Kennedy, “I’ll turn in and
365 XXXVIII| balloons.~“Where would we be,” said he, “with only one balloon?
366 XXXVIII| are right, friend Joe,” said the doctor, “only that my
367 XXXVIII| before we see the Niger,” said the doctor. “The face of
368 XXXVIII| that reminds me of what was said by an admirer of the goodness
369 XXXVIII| capital.~“It was there,” said the doctor, “that Barth
370 XXXVIII| to you about this river,” said Dr. Ferguson, “and it is
371 XXXVIII| broad.~“Easy to jump over,” said Joe.~“How’s that? Easy you
372 XXXVIII| Still another victim!” said the sportsman.~“It was then
373 XXXVIII| He was a sturdy fellow!” said Kennedy, “but what became
374 XLIX | appalling aspect.”~“Faith!” said Joe, “I wouldn’t like to
375 XLIX | of the day.~“Yet they are said to be handsome,” remarked
376 XLIX | see half-ruined ramparts,” said Kennedy.~“They were destroyed
377 XLIX | their journey.~“And now,” said the doctor, “Heaven may
378 XLIX | added Kennedy.~“Bah!” said Joe; “I wouldn’t be afraid
379 XLIX | stout.”~“Just like Joe,” said Kennedy; “just the ideas
380 XLIX | chance to discover them,” said Joe, “if they were not known
381 XL | actual situation when Joe said aloud:~“There! the rain’
382 XL | I breathe freely again!” said the doctor, laying down
383 XL | It’s a terrible shower,” said the hunter; “more so than
384 XL | the prawns of the air,” said Joe, who added that he was
385 XL | would prolong our journey,” said the doctor, “I should like
386 XL | visit until our next trip,” said Joe, laughing.~“Besides,
387 XL | added Kennedy.~“Ah, doctor!” said Joe again, with a deep sigh, “
388 XLI | But what shall it be?” said the hunter, looking at the
389 XLI | whole tribe of blacks,” said he; “there’s enough to dress
390 XLI | hands.”~“We shall not,” said Joe, “even if we have to
391 XLI | not far from the river,” said the doctor, “but I foresee
392 XLI | its banks, at all events,” said the Scot, “and that will
393 XLI | produce.”~“Well, wait a bit,” said Kennedy, “and we shall see!”~“
394 XLI | grows thinner and thinner,” said Joe, dolefully, while he
395 XLI | Unless I am deceived,” said Kennedy, “there on the horizon
396 XLI | empty our tank of water,” said the doctor, “and keep only
397 XLI | tanks—we have emptied them.” said Kennedy.~“Over with them!”~“
398 XLI | aeronauts.~“In ten minutes,” said the doctor to himself, “
399 XLI | My brave Joe! my friend!” said the doctor, with deep emotion.~“
400 XLI | favorable stopping-place,” said he.~“Ah!” replied Kennedy, “
401 XLI | large forests ahead of us,” said the doctor; “we are going
402 XLII | manage to do, my friends,” said he, after having pointed
403 XLII | useless, my brave friends,” said Ferguson; “I trust that
404 XLII | company.”~“That’s the talk,” said Joe; “a little tramp won’
405 XLII | should like to see it,” said Kennedy, incredulously.~“
406 XLII | apparatus.”~“Let it go, then!” said Kennedy, promptly.~“To work!”
407 XLII | Kennedy, promptly.~“To work!” said Joe.~It was no easy job.
408 XLII | be mightily astonished,” said Joe, “at finding things
409 XLII | friends, and get some rest,” said the doctor. “I’ll take the
410 XLII | immediate exclamation.~“Fire!” said Joe. “But who could—”~At
411 XLII | s marabouts, no doubt,” said the doctor.~A circle of
412 XLIII | lost beyond redemption,” said the doctor, after a long
413 XLIII | not out of danger yet,” said the doctor.~“What do you
414 XLIII | It is, indeed, they!” said the doctor; “the cruel Talabas!
415 XLIII | that’s something.”~“See,” said Ferguson, “those villages
416 XLIII | the ground!” and, as he said this, he glanced at the
417 XLIII | along the road.”~“My rifle!” said the sportsman. “I hope that
418 XLIII | follow us at their leisure,” said Joe. “They’re only at a
419 XLIII | few of them.”~“Exactly,” said the doctor; “but then they
420 XLIII | them.~“They are prudent!” said Kennedy.~“Because they think
421 XLIII | carry.”~“Out it goes, sir!” said Joe, obeying orders.~The
422 XLIII | So we shall not escape!” said Kennedy, between his teeth.~“
423 XLIII | other.~“Heaven abandons us!” said Kennedy; “we have to fall!”~
424 XLIII | intently at his master.~“No!” said the latter; “we have more
425 XLIII | What can it be, then?” said Kennedy, thinking that the
426 XLIII | Another quarter of an hour,” said Ferguson, “and we are saved!”~
427 XLIII | waste.~“It’s all over,” said Kennedy.~“And at a hundred
428 XLIII | not over!”~“I knew it,” said Joe, with that confidence
429 XLIII | start of those banditti,” said he; “let us lose no time,
430 XLIII | minutes they will be here!” said Kennedy.~“More grass! more
431 XLIV | a balloon, and that the said balloon fell at a distance
432 XLIV | and fatigue.~Besides, Joe said to every one who chose to
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