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Chapter
1 XI | on the 15th of April, at 11 o’clock in the morning,
2 XXX | Pigeons.~On the next day, May 11th, the Victoria resumed her
3 VII | 120 "~ Weight of the outside
4 VII | 135 pounds.~ Kennedy............................
5 XXXIII | Lari.~On the morrow, the 13th of May, our travellers,
6 I | whose circulation amounts to 140,000 copies, and yet scarcely
7 X | Now, the cases increase 1480 of their volume for each
8 VII | 153 "~ Joe................................
9 X | 180480 and will displace 16,740 cubic feet more, and
10 X | its ascensional power by 160 pounds. This is equivalent
11 XXXVIII| I shall mention: Between 1749 and 1758, Adamson made a
12 XXXVIII| mention: Between 1749 and 1758, Adamson made a reconnoissance
13 XXXVIII| on the 30th of April. In 1760, another Frenchman, Imbert
14 XXXVIII| and visited Gorea; from 1785 to 1788, Golberry and Geoffroy
15 XXXVIII| visited Gorea; from 1785 to 1788, Golberry and Geoffroy travelled
16 XXVIII | account of his journeys until 1790. His statements were received
17 XXXVIII| Scotchman by birth. Sent out in 1795 by the African Society of
18 XXXVIII| and returned to England in 1797. He again set out, on the
19 X | I force the temperature 18 degrees, the hydrogen of
20 X | augment the temperature by 180 degrees, the gas will dilate
21 VIII | coronation of Napoleon, in 1804. The aeronaut, Gernerin,
22 X | degrees, the gas will dilate 180480 and will displace 16,740
23 XXXVIII| on the 30th of January, 1805, with his brother-in-law
24 XXXVIII| Imbert by name, and, in 1810, an Englishman, Robert Adams,
25 XXXVIII| pursue the exploration. In 1816, an expedition was organized,
26 XXXVIII| after sundry attempts in 1819 and 1824, set out again
27 XLIX | destroyed by the Fouillanes in 1826; the city was one-third
28 XXXVIII| again on the 19th of April, 1827, from Rio Nunez. On the
29 XXXVIII| these men, between 1829 and 1831, redescended the river from
30 XXXVIII| expedition, at least; but in 1833 Richard undertook a third
31 IV | expedition attempted in 1840, under the auspices of Mehemet
32 IV | obtained no serious result.~In 1844, Dr. Krapf, an Anglican
33 XXXI | already changed greatly since 1847. In fact, the chart of Lake
34 X | the balloon will dilate 18480 or 1614 cubic feet, and
35 IV | were those of Dr. Barth in 1849, and of Lieutenants Burton
36 I | returned to England about 1850, and, more than ever possessed
37 IV | forth on the 29th of March, 1851, with Overweg, to visit
38 IV | On the 25th of November, 1852, after the death of Overweg,
39 VII | etc..................... 190 "~ Meat, pemmican, biscuits,
40 IV | They departed again on the 26th of May, and reentered Kazeh
41 X | when fully open, expends 27 cubic feet per hour, with
42 VII | the hydrogen............. 276 "~ Ballast............................
43 VII | network.................... 280 "~ Anchors, instruments,
44 XXXVIII| entered Tangiers, and on the 28th of September sailed for
45 IV | again setting forth on the 29th of March, 1851, with Overweg,
46 VII | brandy..................... 386 "~ Water..............................
47 VII | 400 "~ Apparatus..........................
48 XXXVIII| data concerning it. On the 4th of May he quitted this ‘
49 X | cubic feet of the latter, or 5,670 cubic feet, in all,
50 VII | the second balloon....... 510 "~ Car and network....................
51 X | force will be augmented by 1,600 pounds.~“Thus, you see,
52 VII | the outside balloon...... 650 "~ Weight of the second
53 X | feet of the latter, or 5,670 cubic feet, in all, of the
54 IV | arrived in London on the 6th of September, the only survivor
55 VII | 700 "~ Weight of the hydrogen.............
56 X | 180480 and will displace 16,740 cubic feet more, and its
57 X | feet of the former and 3,780 cubic feet of the latter,
58 X | at atmospheric tension, 1,800 cubic feet of the former
59 XXX | Englishman, an ensign in the 80th regiment, who, a few weeks
60 XXXVIII| Queen of the desert;’ on the 9th, he surveyed the very spot
61 XVIII | make them out:~“A. D.”~“A.D.!” repeated Dr. Ferguson. “
62 XVI | Have you any idea, then, of abandoning the route that we have followed
63 XLIII | grated on each other.~“Heaven abandons us!” said Kennedy; “we have
64 X | letting the temperature abate. The ascent would be, usually,
65 XIX | length, however, the storm abated, and the oscillations of
66 I | those remembered thus, were: Abbadie, Adams, Adamson, Anderson,
67 IV | thirty-three days in the most abject destitution. He then managed
68 XXI | shall we drive off those abominable blacks?” asked Kennedy.~“
69 XII | master, since we are so far above-ground, I can tell you the secret.
70 XXXIII | doctor, I shall not be long absent.”~Hereupon, Kennedy took
71 XXVII | announced the presence of abundant springs. As they hurried
72 XIX | craters are now but deep abysses. Immense accumulations of
73 XXVIII | manners and customs of the Abyssinians seemed so different from
74 XI | invariably favorable wind had accelerated the progress of the Resolute
75 XXXV | his might be particularly acceptable to the dreaded brutes, and
76 III | a Scotchman, in the full acceptation of the word—open, resolute,
77 IX | believe in it; but, once accepted by them, nothing connected
78 V | increased by the voluntary accession of several learned men,
79 XXVIII | portion of the ballast been accidentally thrown out, the balloon
80 I | intervening time, until 1853, in accompanying Captain McClure on the expedition
81 XXXVIII| in England.~“While he was accomplishing this remarkable journey,
82 XLIV | had ocular proof of the accomplishment of the daring project, naturally
83 XXIII | dead!” And with one common accord, the three friends knelt
84 XXXII | parasols were in proper accordance with the intense heat of
85 XXVIII | such may be the reception accorded to our own. The manners
86 XXXIII | arrangements were completed accordingly, and he made up for Joe’
87 XXXVIII| This continuous shower accounted for the swamps and marshes
88 XXX | where, according to some accounts, he was made prisoner, and,
89 XVI | for centuries have been accumulating in her breast. Those climates
90 XIX | but deep abysses. Immense accumulations of bird-guano gave the sides
91 XI | them received a certain accurately-ascertained quantity of gas. For this
92 I | was to link together the achievements of all these explorers,
93 VI | where he is made to ape Achilles, at Hyde-Park entrance,
94 VII | water-proof, and also resists acids and gas perfectly. The silk
95 III | at me because I did not acquaint you with my new project.”~“
96 XX | profound disgust.~“They’re ugly acquaintances!” added Joe; “but then,
97 III | favor of the bonny Scot.~The acquaintanceship of these two friends had
98 XII | all the notions already acquired concerning the Nile. It
99 XIX | tied up with cords, Joe acquitting himself very skilfully in
100 XXVI | asked himself whether he had acted with prudence. Would he
101 XLIX | plain of white sand, its acute angle directed toward the
102 XXXVIII| assassinated Saugnier, Brisson, Adam, Riley, Cochelet, and so
103 IV | to visit the kingdom of Adamaoua, to the south of the lake,
104 XIV | The natives there are less addicted to selling members of their
105 VII | hundred and fifty pounds.~In addition to the above, the doctor
106 XII | substantial breakfast, which was additionally seasoned by the jokes and
107 XIII | tribes scattered over the adjacent hills were impotently menacing
108 V | the singular possessive adjective:~“‘Our’ balloon; ‘our’ car; ‘
109 VII | spiral, which was not to be adjusted until some future moment,
110 XLI | surrounding tribes. Under the administration of Colonel Faidherbe, reconnoissances
111 I | the first lordship in the admiralty!~It may readily be conjectured
112 XXXVIII| me of what was said by an admirer of the goodness of Providence,
113 XII | continual interchange of admiring interjections and exclamations.~“
114 XIX | shots fired at the Victoria, admonished the doctor to continue his
115 XXXV | length of eating the object adored!~But, notwithstanding this
116 XXXV | his life, and gave his new adorers an exalted idea of how the
117 II | world. More than one bold adventurer presented himself, offering
118 XI | in store for these daring adventurers? Should they ever again
119 XXX | the Victoria resumed her adventurous journey. Her passengers
120 XX | courage and ardor of their adversaries, and, in a twinkling, the
121 XVI | suggested Dick, “would it not be advisable to alight?”~“On the contrary,
122 II | being naturally the most affable man in the world. More than
123 XXV | the hot sun have really affected the poor fellow’s brain?”
124 XXX | in the point of view that affects civilization; it would be
125 XVII | existence, strongly as it was affirmed by Speke, his companion.
126 XV | done. The sickness that had afflicted him for so many years was
127 XX | undoubtedly, ran into those affluents of Lake Nu, or of the River
128 XV | feet above the turf, the affrighted sorcerer made up his mind
129 XXVIII | statements, you have grossly affronted me; in believing the thing
130 XXXIII | very dangerous; and the Africans bathe with impunity, and
131 XII | Neuester Endeckungen in Afrika” (“The Latest Discoveries
132 III | confidential maid-of-all-work, the aged Elspeth, tried to insinuate
133 I | that he could become the agent of any mystification, however
134 XXII | continued to disquiet and agitate the doctor greatly.~Toward
135 XXV | moment, endured the real agonies of thirst, and were in no
136 XLI | Wretched man!” was the doctor’s agonized expression.~The flat top
137 XV | he went so far as to chat agreeably with them.~“Worship me,
138 XLIX | civilization, where a sage like Ahmed-Baba owned, in the sixteenth
139 XII | exclamations. The “ohs!” and the “ahs!” exploded one after the
140 VIII | rapid current of the Thames, aiding the strong arms of the rowers,
141 XV | set up prolonged howlings, aiming, the while, their bows and
142 XLII | indeed!” remonstrated Joe; “ain’t I used to—”~“The question
143 XXXII | fickleness that characterizes the air-currents of this region, a contrary
144 XV | once reproduced all his airs and graces, his leaps and
145 XXXII | stands squarely with its airy and lofty houses, laid out
146 XXXV | buffaloes, reenforced by the ajoub—a very dangerous species
147 VI | servant who answered with alacrity to the name of Joe. He was
148 XXXIII | voice of poor Joe; but, alas! the voice that they so
149 XXV | Perkins never turned out ale equal to that!”~“See the
150 V | Letters that were received in Alexandria, in 1860, said that he was
151 II | Evangelical Missions to the Revue Algerienne et Coloniale, from the Annales
152 IV | the auspices of Mehemet Ali, stopped at Gondokoro, between
153 XVIII | the evening the balloon alighted on a small desert island
154 XIX | leaving the ground, or of alighting, and therefore at those
155 XXXV | This sudden bath somewhat allayed the pangs of the itching
156 II | essay in the Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine Erdkunde, by Dr. W. Koner,
157 XVI | boiler-makers! But, without allowing ourselves to be carried
158 XI | the Imaum of Muscat, an ally of France and England, and
159 I | health or to their memory, in alphabetical order, a good old English
160 VII | artificial horizon, and an altazimuth, to throw out the height
161 III | another self, indeed, an alter ego, for friendship could
162 XXXIV | resigned himself to the alternative of cutting the anchor-rope.
163 XXXIII | he searched at different altitudes: the balloon always came
164 I | Calcutta to Surat—a mere amateur trip for him.~From Surat
165 IV | halt. In ancient times, the ambassadors of Nero reached the ninth
166 XXX | the stomach indicated the ambition of its possessor. These
167 XXVI | having it in their power to ameliorate it.~The pangs of thirst
168 VIII | Kennedy’s Arsenal.—Mutual Amenities.—The Farewell Dinner.—Departure
169 XVI | Globe!”~“And I add that the Americans,” said Joe, “will not have
170 XLIV | settlements are frequent and amicable.~They had arrived at Senegal
171 XV | consciousness, and all the ammonia in the world would not have
172 XLI | months, without provisions or ammunition, held out until Colonel
173 VII | displacement of the air amounting to forty-four thousand eight
174 I | newspaper whose circulation amounts to 140,000 copies, and yet
175 XXXV | their heads about them. The amphibious denizens of this lake enjoy
176 XLIII | the sportsman, “I should amuse myself with dismounting
177 XXXV | circumstances he might have been amused by these strange ceremonies;
178 Note | The latter are abundantly amusing, and, in view of the wonderful “
179 XVIII | and it flows with a speed analogous to our own! And this drop
180 XIX | this king of rivers. The ancients gave it the name of an ocean,
181 VIII | he IS going.”~“By Saint Andrew!” said Kennedy, “I swear—”~“
182 XXXIII | blowing almost at right angles to the other, drove them
183 IV | In 1844, Dr. Krapf, an Anglican missionary, founded an establishment
184 XXV | horn-like with age, and angrily flung them away among the
185 XXXV | few minutes of unspeakable anguish, which all his philosophy
186 XIV | knobbed with huge bowlders and angular ridges of rock; conic masses,
187 XLIX | exclaimed the doctor. “Ann Radcliffe could not have
188 XXVII | crushed, torn to atoms, annihilated. The awful whirlwind was
189 XIX | on that sea of sand, and announcing, as the weeds upon the ocean
190 V | but he did not want to annoy his friend. Let us also
191 XXX | reported, to his own great annoyance! It is, therefore, very
192 XXVIII | a strange succession of annoyances and enjoyments!” moralized
193 XXXV | felt him; they became even annoyingly familiar; but at the same
194 IV | of Paris decreed them its annual prize medal.~Dr. Ferguson
195 XVI | Those new diseases that annually attack the products of the
196 XIII | felt themselves in a very anomalous condition; an atmospheric
197 XIX | travellers, and, by the enormous ant-hills seen in its vicinity, the
198 XLIII | seeming, like the giant Antaeus, to receive fresh strength
199 XXVII | crouching for a spring on his antagonist. Scarcely had he caught
200 XLIII | forms started up like huge ante-diluvian animals, petrified there
201 XIII | bring back some nice cuts of antelope-meat; they will make us a good
202 XIV | that moment, preparing some antelope-steaks, the very sight of which
203 XXXIII | in Kennedy—“for we must anticipate every thing—should we find
204 VI | devotion to his interests, even anticipating his wishes and orders, which
205 XIV | and cutting all kinds of antics at the foot of the sycamore.
206 XLIII | westward.~The doctor was anxiously watching for the least cloud
207 XXXVIII| infested as they are by the Aouelim-Minian Touaregs. The plateau, at
208 I | mystify us,” growled an apoplectic old admiral.~“Suppose that
209 XXIII | God!” exclaimed the dying apostle, “have pity on me!”~His
210 XLIX | yon mountains in a more appalling aspect.”~“Faith!” said Joe, “
211 XLIX | at full length in flowing apparel of bright colors, and lance
212 XXX | redoubled his vigilance, as this apparent quiet might conceal some
213 XXXV | the foliage the welcome apparition of the balloon—the Victoria
214 XXVI | severely felt; brandy, far from appeasing this imperious necessity,
215 XXXVIII| length with the Nile. These appellations signify simply ‘the River,’
216 XIX | the balloon and shook the appendage by which the dilating-pipes
217 XIX | soon discovered that these appendages belonged to the skins of
218 X | discourse, and was most heartily applauded. There was not an objection
219 IX | solve the problem with the appliances now known to mechanical
220 II | Numerous inventors of mechanism applicable to the guidance of balloons
221 X | is in the balloon by the application of different temperatures,
222 V | long time past he had been applying himself to the study of
223 IV | Brun-Rollet, a native of Savoy, appointed consul for Sardinia in Eastern
224 VI | certainly have received the appointment. Leaping, climbing, almost
225 VIII | with confusion, “I greatly—appreciate—your compliments— but they—
226 XXXVIII| But in France he was not appreciated according to his worth.”~“
227 II | frequently had the opportunity of appreciating.~“This intrepid discoverer
228 XLIII | doctor.~“What do you still apprehend?” queried Kennedy. “The
229 XLI | CHAPTER FORTY-FIRST.~The Approaches to Senegal.—The Balloon
230 VI | a smattering of science appropriate to his condition and style
231 III | possessed different qualities, aptitudes, and temperaments, Dick
232 XLIX | uncultivated plains. All kinds of aquatic birds—pelicans, wild-duck,
233 XXX | foreheads, their almost aquiline noses, and their curling
234 XV | the interior of Africa and Arabia: they trade in gums, ivory,
235 XIX | with fields of rice and of arachides.~By three o’clock the Victoria
236 XXII | man from the village of Aradon, in Brittany, in the Morbihan
237 XVI | ground below; gigantic trees, arborescent bushes, mosses on the even
238 XLIX | of galleries resting on arcades of sufficiently pure design.
239 II | de l’Histoire, et de l’Archaeologie de M. V. A. Malte-Brun (“
240 II | Geography, History, and Archaeology, by M. V. A. Malte-Brun”);
241 XVIII | islets, which he named the Archipelago of Bengal. He pushed his
242 XLIV | it appears to-day, in the archives of the Royal Geographical
243 IX | steered away to the south’ard, so as to double the southernmost
244 XI | drunk on “tembo,” a kind of ardent spirits drawn from the cocoa-nut
245 XX | reanimated the courage and ardor of their adversaries, and,
246 VIII | is a matter that we can’t argue with him. At heart he knows
247 VI | agility. Had the occasion arisen to name a professor of gymnastics
248 XXXVIII| with roofs turned over like Armenian caps. There were few mountains,
249 XVII | elephant-meat, surrounded with aromatic leaves, were placed in this
250 XXVIII | Turn out!” cried Joe, arousing his companions. “Turn out!
251 XI | on the 17th, was spent in arranging the apparatus destined to
252 XL | standing crops, in order to arrest the progress of these insects;
253 VIII | which were to be filled on arriving, all were embarked and put
254 XVI | one common bed to form an artery of navigation. Then this
255 XXVII | tongue and lips could hardly articulate a syllable.~There still
256 IV | October, at the vast oasis of Asben. Dr. Barth separated from
257 XXI | if I want to get a rapid ascension, so as to escape these savages,
258 XXXVII | interwoven with branches of the asclepia. The grain-mills were seen
259 XXXVIII| which pagan superstition ascribed a celestial origin. Like
260 III | goat would not have been ashamed of among his native crags.~“
261 XVI | same conclusion assuredly. Asia was the first nurse of the
262 XIII | that of the European and Asiatic ranges; but, in any case,
263 XXXVI | like a panther, avoided his assailant by leaping to one side,
264 XXX | reach of these dangerous assailants; and, for two hours afterward,
265 XXI | said Kennedy, “they’re assassinating him—making a martyr of him!”~
266 XVII | uncovered his whole flank to the assaults of his enemies in the balloon.~“
267 XXXVIII| over a petty town, a mere assemblage of miserable huts, which
268 XXX | the governor’s troops were assembling to oppose so extraordinary
269 XIX | of it! It has also been asserted that these natives had tails,
270 XXVIII | Bruce had put forward the assertion that the tribes of Eastern
271 XLIX | Long files of camels and asses laden with merchandise from
272 XXX | against the Fellatahs; he assisted in the attack on the city,
273 V | sent into the Soudan to associate himself with the labors
274 XXIV | and, by an irresistible association of ideas, the doctor allowed
275 XLIII | empty and exhausted, and assuming a more and more elongated
276 XXIII | as though in a miraculous assumption, he seemed already to live
277 XLI | hordes of banditti; and I assure you that it would not be
278 VIII | subject.~“That peculiar point astonishes you, does it?” said Ferguson.~“
279 XXXVII | Heart of gold! we were not astray in trusting to your intelligence
280 XV | limbs, and carried him off astride of it through the air.~The
281 I | of botany, medicine, and astronomy.~Upon the death of the estimable
282 XLIX | Timbuctoo, which once, like Athens and Rome, had her schools
283 XX | parties was remarkable for his athletic proportions, his great height,
284 XLIX | fountain, and falls into the Atlantic in a broad sheaf. In the
285 X | means of a pressure of two atmospheres; consequently, so soon as
286 XXVII | have been crushed, torn to atoms, annihilated. The awful
287 XIX | their power amid the most atrocious carnage, never cease.~Numerous
288 XIV | country, where the trees attain enormous dimensions; among
289 XXIV | in that? Was it not like attempting to tread forbidden paths?
290 XXX | there was a slave-market, attended by a great crowd of customers,
291 XXII | washed them. These rapid attentions were bestowed with the celerity
292 XV | himself into incredible attitudes; grimacing beyond all belief,
293 X | is created below, and it attracts the gas in the lower parts;
294 XXII | few of the savages, more audacious than the rest, guessing
295 IX | world!”~The attention of his auditory was now directed to the
296 XL | attempt, which was only augmenting the waste of gas by pressing
297 III | truth, is a mere suburb of Auld Reekie. Sometimes he was
298 XXII | mistaken for an immense aurora borealis, for the sky appeared
299 V | doctor, “M. de Heuglin, the Austrian vice-consul at Karthoum,
300 XXXVIII| who could bring back any authentic data concerning it. On the
301 XXXVII | watch by turns, and Joe availed himself of the chance to
302 XXXV | paddles in it, and Joe, availing himself of a rapid current,
303 XXXIV | disappearing beneath an avalanche of sand. The camels, flung
304 XII | And France has never avenged so hideous a crime?” said
305 XXXV | afoot toward the northeast, avoiding with the utmost care cabins,
306 XXXV | sleeping much, however, awaited the dawn of day.~When morning
307 XII | caravan resting in a “kraal,” awaiting the freshness and cool of
308 XXXV | unexpected sensation of dampness awakened the sleeper. Ere long this
309 XIX | the regular watches.~On awaking the next morning, they all
310 XX | his supernatural death awed them, while it reanimated
311 VII | Anchors, instruments, awnings,~ and sundry utensils, guns,~
312 XVI | forests will fall before the axe of industry, and its soil
313 IV | Tigre, visited the ruins of Axum, saw the sources of the
314 VI | the doctor in that way!”~“Aye! that I will.”~“Well!” said
315 V | could not look upon the azure vault without a sombre terror:
316 XIV | civilization is, perhaps, the least backward. The natives there are less
317 XV | recognizable by their badges of conical shellwork, came
318 XII | The savages below, thus baffled, ran together from their
319 XXXVIII| had dangling to its tail a bag to receive its excrement,
320 IV | disembarked, alone, at Bagamayo, directly opposite to Zanzibar,
321 XIX | of the White Nile, of the Bahr-el-Abiad, are immersed in a lake
322 I | Adamson, Anderson, Arnaud, Baikie, Baldwin, Barth, Batouda,
323 XXV | stones, pulverized by the baking heat of the sun, seemed
324 XXIII | the Victoria found herself balanced, and her ascensional force
325 I | Anderson, Arnaud, Baikie, Baldwin, Barth, Batouda, Beke, Beltram,
326 XXVII | miles!~The car was at once ballasted, and Kennedy, closely followed
327 XV | strange idea of the style of ballet adopted by the deities in
328 XIX | Soudan-nut; the baobab, and the banana-tree, completed the luxuriant
329 XLIII | clock.~At this moment the band of Talabas reappeared about
330 XXXVII | veil their faces with a bandage of cotton, like their dangerous
331 XLI | relief. Al-Hadji and his bands then repassed the Senegal,
332 XV | squalling of children, and the banging of the huge rattan, wielded
333 XVIII | eyes. My thoughts would banish sleep. To-morrow, my friends,
334 XXXV | consideration to offer him a superb banquet consisting of sour milk
335 XX | height—a kind of ancient banyan.~“What magnificent trees!”
336 XX | doctor!”~“The height of these banyans is really remarkable, my
337 XXI | miniature forests called baobab-trees. The darkness, heightened
338 XXII | Nyam-Nyams known as the Barafri, one of the wildest and
339 XV | war-club, the bow and arrows barbed and poisoned with the juice
340 XXXVI | horsemen reined in their barbs, and fell on their faces
341 XXV | said Joe; “wasn’t it fine? Barclay and Perkins never turned
342 XXIV | vegetation also was disappearing. Barely a few dwarf plants could
343 XXVIII | Scotchman either, into the bargain!”~With this very sensible
344 XV | purchased at the strangest of bargains by customers in whose eyes
345 IV | successively traversed the Mandara, Barghimi, and Klanem countries, and
346 XIX | eh? Quite convenient for barking, and even for man-eating!”~“
347 XVIII | it approached the lake; barley-fields took the place of rice-plantations,
348 II | chimerical personage of the Barnum stamp, who, after having
349 XII | depression of two inches in the barometric column.~At this height a
350 XIII | fearless Frenchmen, Messrs. Barral and Bixio, also ventured
351 XLIII | and the line of rocks that barred its course extended from
352 XLIX | appearance of these seemingly basaltic summits; they stood out
353 XIV | jackals, while the imposing bass of the African lion sustained
354 XXXIII | dangerous; and the Africans bathe with impunity, and quite
355 XXXV | dare these fellows go in bathing in such places?”~Joe was
356 I | Baikie, Baldwin, Barth, Batouda, Beke, Beltram, Du Berba,
357 XXX | preparing to discharge all his batteries into the middle of the ascending
358 XX | spaces in them with his battle-axe. Suddenly he flung away
359 XX | either extremity of the battle-field. Often, too, they even fought
360 XI | the booty captured in the battles which the chiefs of the
361 XLI | the one hand, or to the bay of Cape Verde on the other.~
362 XI | disembarking the balloon upon the beach at Zanzibar. There was a
363 XV | showy stuffs, the glass beads, the ivory tusks, the rhinoceros’-
364 XXXII | balloon, with outstretched beak and claws, ready to rend
365 XLIII | ferocious by thin but bristling beards. Meanwhile they galloped
366 IX | and keep as ignorant as bears. But just come along to
367 XVI | content with enjoying the beauties of this country of the Moon,
368 XVII | He had two whitish tusks, beautifully curved, and about eight
369 XXV | balloon in that style? She’s a beauty, isn’t she?— and how stately
370 XXX | Capital of Loggoum.—Toole.—Becalmed above Kernak.—The Governor
371 XXI | rancid grease with which they bedaub their bodies.~Ere long,
372 VII | blankets that were to be the bedding of the journey, nor some
373 XXXV | these new and unwelcome bedfellows.~“Now, there’s something
374 III | them to send us both to Bedlam!”~“I have counted positively
375 X | have said, into the upper beds of the balloon.~“The spherical
376 XXVIII | thereof, you will now eat this beef-steak raw, or you will give me
377 XIX | huts, looking like huge beehives, were sheltered behind bristling
378 XXXII | motion, like a gigantic beetle.~At this moment, Joe, who
379 XXVIII | very singular adventure befell James Bruce.”~“Tell it to
380 XV | worshippers. He, therefore, begged them not to be disturbed
381 XXVII | up close to him, and was begging there, upon his knees, and
382 XIV | daytime. With nightfall had begun the nocturnal concert of
383 I | claimed silence on his own behalf. He stepped toward the seat
384 XXXV | the last few hours, and beheld a sight that chilled the
385 XL | That would be a sight worth beholding!”~“Wait a little, Joe. In
386 I | American Continent from Behring’s Straits to Cape Farewell.~
387 XXXIV | the Tibbous, crossed the Belad el Djerid, a desert of briers
388 IV | and ivory, got as far as Belenia, beyond the fourth degree,
389 X | in an inner receptacle. A Belgian, Dr. Van Hecke, by means
390 XV | attitudes; grimacing beyond all belief, and, in fine giving his
391 II | races were at stake.~Thus, believers and unbelievers, the learned
392 XVII | elephant uttered a long bellow of terror and agony, then
393 XVI | breath of some gigantic bellows, fanning all this conflagration.~
394 XIV | upon the gray, but with the belly and the inside of the legs
395 I | Baldwin, Barth, Batouda, Beke, Beltram, Du Berba, Bimbachi, Bolognesi,
396 I | Bimbachi, Bolognesi, Bolwik, Belzoni, Bonnemain, Brisson, Browne,
397 XXIII | to see his weakened limbs bend under him.~“My God! my God!”
398 XV | favorites and the women kept on bended knees during this solemn
399 XXVI | that the exercise would be beneficial to him, and pushed on several
400 XIX | I want it to be for your benefit and my master’s; but the
401 XV | dusky friends took to be a benevolent smile.~Thereupon, the young
402 XVIII | the Nile.—The Island of Benga.—The Signature of Andrea
403 I | He had enlisted in the Bengalese Corps of Engineers, and
404 XXXVIII| western coast of the Gulf of Benin; he then followed in the
405 II | transport-ship Resolute, Captain Bennett, at the disposal of the
406 XXIV | ensuing day would again bequeath to the succeeding night.
407 I | Batouda, Beke, Beltram, Du Berba, Bimbachi, Bolognesi, Bolwik,
408 I | Societies of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, or St. Petersburg,
409 VIII | boatswain’s mess, where a berth had been kept for him.~On
410 XXIII | my knees, my brethren, I beseech you!”~Kennedy lifted him
411 IV | the Foullans threatened to besiege it. The doctor, therefore,
412 III | for hospitality, but to bestow some weeks of his presence
413 XXII | These rapid attentions were bestowed with the celerity and skill
414 XVII | examination ended, the doctor betook himself to setting his notes
415 XI | would!” said the doctor, betraying in his features swift traces
416 II | Ferguson’s return. The betting-books were covered with entries
417 XLIX | imagine a collection of billiard-balls and thimbles—such is the
418 I | Beke, Beltram, Du Berba, Bimbachi, Bolognesi, Bolwik, Belzoni,
419 VI | Oh! well, that doesn’t bind me to any thing.”~“One hundred
420 XIX | Immense accumulations of bird-guano gave the sides of Mount
421 XXXVIII| like him, a Scotchman by birth. Sent out in 1795 by the
422 VII | 190 "~ Meat, pemmican, biscuits, tea,~ coffee, brandy.....................
423 XVII | morsels, like the hump of the bison, the paws of the bear, and
424 XX | Instead of driving them with bits, we’d do it with eye-blinkers
425 XXVII | said Kennedy, with the bitterness of despair. “So much the
426 XXVIII | noted.~Joe arranged their bivouac for that evening, as he
427 XIII | Frenchmen, Messrs. Barral and Bixio, also ventured into the
428 XV | shoulders, and by means of black-and-blue incisions they had tattooed
429 XXVII | palm-tree, stood an enormous black-maned lion, crouching for a spring
430 XV | you going alone into that blackamoor’s den?”~“How! doctor, am
431 XII | Delta of the Niger, by Dr. Blaikie.~Ferguson had also provided
432 XIII | he wrapped himself in a blanket, and lay down under the
433 XIV | toward his booty.~It was a blauwbok, a superb animal of a pale-bluish
434 IX | shaver of four and a half.”~“Blazes! that’s a good ’un!” shouted
435 XVIII | scratched his hands until they bled.~Suddenly he grasped Kennedy’
436 XXXIV | that my heart does not bleed like your own? Am I not
437 XV | fixed, for his terror was blended with amazement. A light
438 XXII | priest, with resignation. “Blessed be God for having vouchsafed
439 XXIII | last gesture was a supreme blessing on his new friends of only
440 XXVII | tossing over each other amid blinding clouds of dust; an immense
441 XXIII | Joe, picking up one more block, desperately tossed it out
442 XXVII | recoiled with him.~“We are blocked in—entrapped!”~“Impossible!
443 XXVII | body of enormous dimensions blocking up the passage! Joe, who
444 XVI | the pools—those masses of blood-colored flesh—and those crocodiles
445 XXXII | the Biddiomahs, a race of bloodthirsty and formidable pirates,
446 XX | fray, gathered up these bloody trophies, and piled them
447 XVI | grass; spreading forests in bloom redolent of spicy perfumes
448 XVI | of it. Where two harvests bloomed every year, hardly one will
449 XXXIV | Kennedy, with his hair blown wildly about his face, looked
450 XXXV | he wondered. “The wind blows from the north, and she
451 XVII | indented, stood out against the bluish horizon, so that they might
452 XXXV | black as jet. Nor had he to blush for the scantiness of his
453 XVII | and the head of the wild boar.~When the pile of fagots
454 XVIII | doctor, and trust to your two body-guards.”~“Are we there, master?”~“
455 XXVIII | digest.”~“The savages don’t boggle much about it!” said Kennedy.~“
456 XVI | will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand
457 XVI | doctor, “they are great boiler-makers! But, without allowing ourselves
458 XXXVII | though reposing after the boisterousness of the day, and the Victoria
459 XXII | Joe, with feeling. “He did bolder things than we’ve done,
460 I | Beltram, Du Berba, Bimbachi, Bolognesi, Bolwik, Belzoni, Bonnemain,
461 I | Berba, Bimbachi, Bolognesi, Bolwik, Belzoni, Bonnemain, Brisson,
462 XIX | studded with sharp thorns; the bombax, or silk-cotton-tree, filled
463 I | Bolognesi, Bolwik, Belzoni, Bonnemain, Brisson, Browne, Bruce,
464 III | glance, in favor of the bonny Scot.~The acquaintanceship
465 Note | measure, a satire on modern books of African travel. So far
466 XXII | mistaken for an immense aurora borealis, for the sky appeared on
467 VI | Mitchell’s factory in the Borough?”~“I’ll take precious good
468 XXXII | plain, with its two distinct boroughs.~But our travellers had
469 XII | doctor. “I give you leave to borrow a little heat from my cylinder.
470 III | and more than one rare botanical specimen, that to science
471 I | his resignation, and half botanizing, half playing the hunter,
472 I | with a slight tincture of botany, medicine, and astronomy.~
473 III | climax! That’s what he’s been bothering his wits about these two
474 XXVI | like a pebble cast into a bottomless gulf; then, down he sank,
475 XXXII | by the “Dendal,” a large boulevard three hundred yards wide,
476 XI | explored, and in the midst of boundless deserts?~Such thoughts as
477 XII | quantities of Mocha, of Bourbon coffee, and of Rio Nunez.”~
478 XXII | covered with wounds, his head bowed over upon his breast, as
479 XXVIII | at the trees of the oasis bowing to the force of the hurricane,
480 VIII | fluttered down into the lake of Bracciano. So you see, gentlemen,
481 XLIII | uttered savage cries, and brandished their weapons. Anger and
482 XX | fight,” said the hunter, brandishing his rifle.~“No! no!” objected
483 XXIV | though no caravan had ever braved this desert expanse, or
484 XXII | obstacles, little by little, braving all privations, pushing
485 XLIX | our direction is changing. Bravo!—the elves and fairies of
486 XI | Belootchees are a kind of brawling, good-for-nothing Janizaries.~
487 XV | the neighing of mules, the braying of donkeys, the singing
488 X | special emergency, such as the breakage of my apparatus, or the
489 XVII | verdure without a single breaker.~“We might proceed a long
490 XIII | We’re right among the breakers!” said Kennedy.~“Keep cool,
491 XIX | utmost precaution.”~“It’s breakfast-time,” said Joe; “we’ll have
492 XX | they’ll worship it; if it breaks, they’ll make talismans
493 VIII | were two double-barrelled breech-loading fowling-pieces, and a rifle
494 XVI | but wild dogs; a famous breed that does not hesitate to
495 XLIX | story in height, built of bricks dried in the sun, and huts
496 XXXVI | said Kennedy again, after a brief pause, “but there’s something
497 XXXIV | Belad el Djerid, a desert of briers that forms the border of
498 XLIII | we met before, these vile brigands would have been out of sight
499 XLII | which was now illuminated as brightly as the day.~“Ah! the savages!”
500 XIII | confused masses of superb brilliance, as they reflected the rays
501 XV | and the sun was shining brilliantly. In fact, what less could
502 XV | copal. They were clad in brilliantly-painted cloths, and the soldiers
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