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Chapter
503 XIII | far. That is what Messrs. Brioschi and Gay-Lussac did; but
504 XIII | Kennedy, joyously.~He climbed briskly out of the car and descended.
505 XXII | the village of Aradon, in Brittany, in the Morbihan country.
506 XXXIII | The vast stretch of water broadened away from the spot, especially
507 XIV | about the steaks you’re broiling, to be sure!” replied Dick.~“
508 XIV | transformed to the most savory of broils.~“There, those will tickle
509 II | heart, thrice panoplied in bronze, that could conceive and
510 XIX | its flanks like a whole brood of children to their mother’
511 XLIX | wide spaces covered with broom-corn and uncultivated plains.
512 XXXVIII| Niger. He took with him his brother John, the second child of
513 XXXVIII| January, 1805, with his brother-in-law Anderson, Scott, the designer,
514 I | Belzoni, Bonnemain, Brisson, Browne, Bruce, Brun-Rollet, Burchell,
515 XIX | oozed from the soil; the brownish vapor scarcely allowed the
516 I | of the Mungo Parks, the Bruces, the Caillies, the Levaillants,
517 XXXVI | body covered with cuts and bruises, told what his sufferings
518 XIII | exposed to their unbridled brutality. During the daytime, a damp,
519 XV | about forty, completely brutalized by orgies of every description,
520 XLIII | to plunge, like a huge bubble, headlong with the waters
521 I | following sonorous phrases bubbling over with patriotism:~“England
522 XVII | opposing currents, had hardly budged from its place, and the
523 XXX | musicians, who blew on hoarse buffalo-horns, as though they would split
524 XIV | Kennedy. Well, then, you can build a fireplace with a few stones;
525 XI | signal-mast, close by an immense building, that would serve to shelter
526 IX | submerged, while the whole bulk of a balloon is plunged
527 XII | their bullets.”~“Would a bullet-hole bring us down?” asked Joe.~“
528 V | an inch more—and such a bump as this! Only think, then!”~
529 IX | only to replenish his coal bunkers, and that was but a day’
530 XXXV | log of wood or a branch to buoy him up; not a reed to which
531 I | Browne, Bruce, Brun-Rollet, Burchell, Burckhardt, Burton, Cailland,
532 I | Brun-Rollet, Burchell, Burckhardt, Burton, Cailland, Caillie,
533 XXIII | to the car, he found it burdened with the quartz-blocks that
534 XXIII | Barrenness and Drought.—The Burial.—The Quartz Rocks. —Joe’
535 XIX | the scene of massacres and burnings, and where warlike conflicts
536 XIX | balloon gave indications of bursting, but in the meanwhile he
537 III | of the past; the doctor busily prepared for the future.
538 XIV | honorable corporation of butchers of the city of London could
539 IX | up there in the Creator’s button-hole.”~“Ay, and you’d have well
540 VI | and here’s half-a-crown to buy you the ballast.”~
541 III | Three-quarters of an hour later a cab deposited him at the door
542 XXXV | avoiding with the utmost care cabins, huts, hovels, and dens
543 XIV | dimensions; among them the cactus, which grows to gigantic
544 XXVII | left like a wild beast in a cage.~All at once, his eyes rested
545 XII | goats too, confined in large cages, set up on piles to keep
546 I | Burchell, Burckhardt, Burton, Cailland, Caillie, Campbell, Chapman,
547 I | Mungo Parks, the Bruces, the Caillies, the Levaillants, and to
548 XXX | country when he died at Cairo, in 1855; and we now know
549 XXXIV | this is one of the worst calamities that it has ever been my
550 XIX | Mendif the appearance of calcareous rocks, and there was enough
551 XXXIII | Ferguson was engaged in calculating the relative weight of the
552 I | Peninsula, and crossed it from Calcutta to Surat—a mere amateur
553 VI | executed. In fine, he was a Caleb without the growling, and
554 III | remarkable for a son of Caledonia, who had known some little
555 XXXVIII| from west to north. Ah! had Callie been born in England, he
556 XXVI | a dead calm—one of those calms which hold vessels captive
557 XXXVII | plump, like a fool, into a camp of Arabs! Whew! what a hunt
558 VIII | Vatican, whence it crossed the Campagna, and finally fluttered down
559 I | Burton, Cailland, Caillie, Campbell, Chapman, Clapperton, Clot-Bey,
560 XXVIII | Narrative of James Bruce.—Camping out.—Joe’s Dreams.—The Barometer
561 XXXIV | excellent disposition! brave and candid heart! Dazzled for a moment
562 XV | for the markets; fields of cannabis and datura; superb trees
563 I | the stake; nay, even the cannibal maws of the South Sea Islanders.
564 XX | this horrible spectacle of cannibalism.~The surface of the country
565 V | Muntzinger.~“Well,” said the canny Scot, “since every thing
566 XLII | succeeded in cutting the caoutchouc jointings above the car,
567 XXXII | squares, grew palms and caoutchouc-trees topped with a dome of foliage
568 VII | ascensional force of a balloon capable of raising such a weight,
569 XXXVII | quite strong, and moreover capricious gusts. It shifted abruptly
570 XXXVIII| turned over like Armenian caps. There were few mountains,
571 XXI | elude the vigilance of his captors. As for you, my dear Dick,
572 XI | converges all the booty captured in the battles which the
573 XXXI | drinking, with a certain carbonate-of-soda flavor.~While the doctor
574 XII | Mount Dathumi.—The Doctor’s Cards.—Night under a Nopal.~The
575 XLIX | of the male inhabitants, carelessly lounging at full length
576 XXIII | is but the end of earthly cares. Place me upon my knees,
577 I | not exactly suited him; caring but little for command,
578 XIX | amid the most atrocious carnage, never cease.~Numerous and
579 XXI | there any thing new on the carpet?”~“No; but I thought that
580 XV | mixed-breed porters and carriers, the beating of drums, and
581 I | world entertains of African cartology” (vehement applause); “and,
582 VIII | emergencies. His powder-case, his cartridge-pouch, his lead, and his bullets,
583 XXIII | an extremely hard crystal casket.~The doctor watched him
584 XVII | balloon like a ship that casts anchor, until favorable
585 XXXI | destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand
586 XVI | symptoms of some approaching catastrophe.~At nine o’clock the Victoria
587 XXXV | survivors of these terrible catastrophes.~Joe knew nothing about
588 XXII | idioms of the country, and he catechised in them. At length, during
589 XX | in his own hut with his cattle, and sometimes with his
590 XL | itself in the devastation it causes.”~“It is impossible to prevent
591 XXI | astonished friends.~“Not a word!” cautioned the doctor.~
592 XII | disappeared, for their growth ceases at this latitude. The soil
593 XX | of California, there is a cedar four hundred and eighty
594 XXXV | carried on with a sort of ceremonial solemnity.~Joe, entirely
595 VI | and Faith.—The Weighing Ceremony.—Joe and Wellington.—He
596 XXII | the wind with unswerving certainty was carrying the balloon
597 XL | little, he hoped that the cessation of the rain would bring
598 I | Dicksen, Dickson, Dochard, Du Chaillu, Duncan, Durand, Duroule,
599 XVIII | projections of the Karagwah chains, which, in his opinion,
600 XIV | him up just as well as the chairman of the honorable corporation
601 XXXV | covered with snakes and chameleons! The foliage actually was
602 VIII | a bullet in the eye of a chamois at the distance of two thousand
603 XIX | it! Excellent!” said Joe, champing his teeth as though he were
604 XV | their voices in a drawling chant, began to dance around him
605 XII | war-song of his tribe was chanted; he then made a gash in
606 XXXV | night, he heard festive chantings, the reverberations of a
607 XI | beer called “togwa.” Their chants, which were destitute of
608 XXXIV | parti-colored garment cut the chaos of the scene with its vivid
609 IX | mammy yet, and that old chap yonder, who looks about
610 I | Cailland, Caillie, Campbell, Chapman, Clapperton, Clot-Bey, Colomieu,
611 XXXV | Evidently,” thought he, “these chaps saw the Victoria skimming
612 XXXII | with the fickleness that characterizes the air-currents of this
613 XV | clay decorated the walls in characters that strove to reproduce
614 XXII | denied recognition, his charities taken in ill part, and he
615 XII | the Nilotic Discovery, by Charles Beke, D.D.”~He also had
616 I | than bold, lent a peculiar charm to his physiognomy. His
617 XII | He also had the excellent charts published in the “Bulletins
618 XIX | a tail’s a nice thing to chase away mosquitoes.”~“That
619 XVII | Kennedy ate, drank, and chatted, like four; he was perfectly
620 XV | good-looking, and they laughed and chattered merrily as they smoked their
621 XIV | scattered them, and the chattering horde scampered off, leaving
622 XVI | the three friends went on chatting of this and other things,
623 XXXVI | turned his head, but without checking his horse. The ladder dropped
624 XLII | half-blinded him and heated his cheek—the forest was in flames!~“
625 XXVI | felt his spirits greatly cheered, when, suddenly, a vertigo
626 XI | answered with stentorian cheers of “Huzza for the Queen!
627 XVII | clouds had dispersed, and a cheery breeze refreshed the morning
628 XX | blood and conquest.”~The chieftain of one of the contending
629 XXXVIII| brother John, the second child of a poor couple in Cornwall,
630 XXXV | and beheld a sight that chilled the marrow in his bones.
631 XIII | of lassitude and feverish chills. The weather was changing.
632 II | regarded as a mad endeavor, a chimera that could not be realized.~“
633 II | Ferguson passed for a purely chimerical personage of the Barnum
634 XIX | her car dashed against a chimney and precipitated her to
635 XVI | has got to be enough to choke one, and the breeze has
636 XXX | wafting us to it, and, if we choose, we can take an exact plan
637 XX | a wounded warrior, and, chopping off his arm at a single
638 XXXV | Then there were howling choruses, accompanied by endless
639 XLIV | Joe said to every one who chose to listen:~That was a stupid
640 XIX | inhabitants of this region, the Chouas Arabs, were feeding their
641 XXII | over upon his breast, as Christ’s was, when He hung upon
642 XI | bring her good luck! let us christen her Victoria!”~This speech
643 XVIII | This sheet of water was christened Uyanza Victoria, or Victoria
644 XIX | weeds upon the ocean did to Christopher Columbus, the nearness of
645 VII | compasses, a sextant, two chronometers, an artificial horizon,
646 XVII | the hole, cleared of the cinders and hot coals, retained
647 XXXV | by gangs of natives who circled round and round the sacred
648 XXXII | flew around them in wide circles, their flight growing gradually
649 XLII | fastened by wires to the very circlet of the valve.~Then it was
650 I | the doctor in making the circuit of the Globe, how many more
651 XV | the air could, therefore, circulate freely, but windows there
652 I | the penny newspaper whose circulation amounts to 140,000 copies,
653 XXXV | Joe determined to be more circumspect for the future; and, taking
654 XXXVII | caught me up flying, as a circus-rider does a ring. Wasn’t I right
655 III | Highland mountains. He was cited as a wonderful shot with
656 XXII | religion alone can instruct and civilize.”~Dr. Ferguson, yielding
657 XXVII | Joe leaped to his feet, clambered over the body of the dead
658 XVI | not closed ere a frightful clap of thunder shook the celestial
659 XXXIV | suspended under the awning clattered together as though they
660 XL | with the two towers of its clay-built mosque, and the putrid odor
661 XXXIII | standing in the midst of clean and neatly-kept enclosures.
662 XXXIV | and the sky is growing clearer.”~“So much the better! We
663 XVI | thorny jungle, separated the clearings dotted with numerous villages,
664 XVII | The little car seemed to cleave the waves of verdure, and,
665 XXIII | power of this metal over the cleverest lad in the world! What passions,
666 XLI | tribes. It was this fatal climate that had devoured most of
667 III | that was wanted to cap the climax! That’s what he’s been bothering
668 XXVII | hoarse cries, gnawing his clinched fists, and ready to open
669 XXVII | rose again with his mouth clogged with hot dust.~“Curses on
670 XXIV | depression of the soil with the closest attention.~These anxieties,
671 I | Campbell, Chapman, Clapperton, Clot-Bey, Colomieu, Courval, Cumming,
672 XLI | have to throw overboard our clothes to save the Victoria.”~“
673 XV | clad in brilliantly-painted cloths, and the soldiers were armed
674 XXVII | the same heat, the same cloudless sky, the same merciless
675 XIV | back with him a sort of clover which the apes eat with
676 XXXII | rudely-constructed mosques rising clumsily above that conglomeration
677 XLIII | desperate means of escape. They clutched the network, as the doctor
678 IX | there only to replenish his coal bunkers, and that was but
679 XII | earlier period, formed the coast-line, rounded away along the
680 XL | barbarous tribes that infest the coasts of Guinea? How should he
681 XXV | doctor.~“No! the gutta-percha coating resists much higher temperatures
682 I | Never had one of Bright’s or Cobden’s sudden onslaughts, never
683 XXXVIII| Saugnier, Brisson, Adam, Riley, Cochelet, and so many other unfortunate
684 XII | to manage it; you turn a cock, and the thing’s done.”~“
685 I | friend the statistician Cockburn ruled in state.~The latter
686 XXXII | mischief!” said the hunter, cocking his rifle.~And, in fact,
687 XII | Resolute looked like a mere cockle-shell, and the African coast could
688 XIII | in the east with the last cocoa-nut-trees of that latitude.~Ere long,
689 XII | Proposition.—A Recipe for Coffee-making.—The Uzaramo.—The Unfortunate
690 XIX | Nyam-Nyams.—Joe’s Shrewd Cogitations.—The Balloon runs the Gantlet.—
691 XVII | biscuit, some coffee, and some cognac, and got a can of pure,
692 XXXV | was hidden beneath their coils, so that the beholder might
693 I | cheeks. His countenance was coldly expressive, with regular
694 XLI | but little inflated, was collapsing already. It assumed an elongated
695 I | important communication to his colleagues, in an address that was
696 I | Chapman, Clapperton, Clot-Bey, Colomieu, Courval, Cumming, Cuny,
697 II | the Revue Algerienne et Coloniale, from the Annales de la
698 XLI | settlers, who occupy the colony of Senegal, necessarily
699 VIII | implements, he had two of Colt’s six-shooters, for unforeseen
700 XIX | ocean did to Christopher Columbus, the nearness of the shore—
701 XXXII | crests, garnished with a comb and gills of deep violet,
702 XXVI | the doctor determined to combat this alarming tendency by
703 XXII | for dead, in one of those combats which are so frequent between
704 XI | car. The doctor lit the combustible in his cylinder and turned
705 XXX | their tails garnished with combustibles, had been set loose and
706 X | detail, let me add this:~“The combustion of the hydrogen and of the
707 XXII | their heads, like a huge comet with a train of dazzling
708 XXVIII | grove that has been such a comfort to us!”~“Oh! above all things,
709 XIX | to mine!” said Joe, with comic solemnity.~“See that!” said
710 IX | about. For instance, we’ll commence with Saturn—”~“That one
711 XXIII | in the face! Death, the commencement of things eternal, is but
712 XIX | African Continent really commences; up to this time we have
713 I | pounds. The sum was made commensurate with the importance of the
714 XVII | Kennedy.~“What a solid head!” commented Joe.~“We’ll try some conical
715 XV | a long period, held the commerce between the interior of
716 X | decomposition of the water do really commingle. The capacity of this fourth
717 V | not then lost. Hence, a committee has been organized under
718 XV | aloof and hindered them from committing any violence on his person.
719 XXXV | the desert, he experienced comparative relief in his exemption
720 VII | barometers, two thermometers, two compasses, a sextant, two chronometers,
721 XV | said:~“The moon, taking compassion on the sovereign who is
722 XL | regions, there is some sort of compensation for their ravages, since
723 V | aware that my journey is to compete with the success of the
724 XXXVIII| extent of country, and almost competes in length with the Nile.
725 XII | work which combined in one compilation all the notions already
726 XIII | morning, Kennedy, as he awoke, complained of lassitude and feverish
727 XVIII | natives of yellowish-brown complexion. Women of incredible corpulence
728 XLIX | streams, in fine, the whole complicated tangle of the Niger’s tributaries.
729 XXXVIII| of these birds led Joe to compliment his master on the idea of
730 I | was done with the idea of complimenting him, but the doctor had
731 XIX | of Nyam-Nyams, and this compound word is only a sort of nickname.
732 XII | that delicious beverage: he compounds it of a mixture of various
733 X | tried to accomplish this by compressing air in an inner receptacle.
734 VII | pemmican, a preparation which comprises many nutritive elements
735 XII | guns could be heard in the concavity beneath the balloon, as
736 XX | in circumference, and the concentric layers of the wood disclosed
737 I | as one of the most daring conceptions of human genius!” (Tremendous
738 XXV | rays of the sun?”~“The why concerns me but little,” answered
739 XVIII | the doctor was enabled to conclude that the lake must have
740 XXIV | exhaustless rays, and night condensed in its shadow the scattered
741 XVIII | obtrusive strangers, and not condescending deities. It appeared as
742 XXI | the two perfectly-isolated conducting-wires, which served for the decomposition
743 X | augment its capacity as a conductor of electricity, and then
744 XI | into each balloon by the conduit-pipes. In this manner each of
745 XI | informed of their intentions, conferred with Dr. Ferguson and Captain
746 XVI | struggle of the elements, and I confess that I never before was
747 XXXV | of sore foot-travel, his confident reliance on his master remained
748 III | he thus spoke.~When his confidential maid-of-all-work, the aged
749 XXXIII | practice of the natives to confine their captives, he will
750 XII | distinguish sheep and goats too, confined in large cages, set up on
751 XIX | Victoria found herself on the confines of Nigritia. The first inhabitants
752 XVIII | rapids and cataracts, which confirmed the doctor in his preconceived
753 XIX | burnings, and where warlike conflicts between the barbarian sultans,
754 XXVII | too quickly aware what foe confronted him.~“Another lion!” exclaimed
755 XIII | declivity of these mountains confronts the Zanzibar coast, but
756 XX | about three hundred mingled confusedly in the deadly struggle:
757 XXXIV | sportsman, “since we were congratulating ourselves upon having escaped
758 XIV | angular ridges of rock; conic masses, like the rocks of
759 XV | Thereupon, the young damsels, conjoining their voices in a drawling
760 V | who made great use of that conjunction.~“But,” said the doctor, “
761 III | and yet the spectacle thus conjured up before him gave him the
762 XIX | last, we have succeeded in connecting the explorations from the
763 XXXVII | Ferguson, who was not easily conquered by fatigue, remained at
764 XVI | the progress of events: consider the migrations of races,
765 XXXVII | his worthy servant more considerate of his master’s safety than
766 XXXIII | been long and carefully considering what should be done,” said
767 XIX | may be, Joe; but we must consign the story to the domain
768 XXXI | existence of which was so long consigned to the realms of fable—that
769 XXII | sky, had uttered words of consolation.~“I have no regrets,” he
770 XLII | situation had nothing very consolatory about it. They were in the
771 XXIII | here’s what I’ll do to console you.”~“That would be rather
772 I | omitted no opportunity to consolidate this keen intelligence by
773 III | unexpected but not very consoling Proposal.—A Proverb by no
774 XII | our balloon would be too conspicuous a mark for their bullets.”~“
775 XXXV | with philosophy. Hunger conspired with fatigue to crush him,
776 X | water, separated into its constituent elements, yield 200 pounds
777 XVIII | with a flowering thatch, constituted the capital of the Karagwah
778 XVII | settle in this forest, to construct a cabin of boughs and foliage,
779 XXVII | care, on the morrow, was to consult the barometer. He found
780 XXIV | so, he would have had to consume a large quantity of water,
781 II | all, and which was really contemplated, according to others; thirdly,
782 XXVI | the mind grew desperate in contemplating the limitless calm, and
783 XXVI | and Twenty-two Degrees.— Contemplation of the Desert.—A Night Walk.—
784 VIII | admiration and curiosity of his contemporaries.~On the 16th of February,
785 III | African martyrdom! Because, to contend successfully against the
786 XVII | doctor, letting the gas contract, descended so as to get
787 X | consist simply in dilating or contracting the gas that is in the balloon
788 I | whose stomach expands or contracts at will; whose limbs grow
789 III | in Kennedy—such was the contrast.~After his journey to the
790 XXIII | to do!” said Joe, with a contrite air.~“Listen! I will take
791 XLI | that could no longer be controlled. Evening was coming on rapidly,
792 V | to show Ferguson a severe contusion that he had received on
793 XI | great slave-market. Thither converges all the booty captured in
794 XXIV | our three travellers. They conversed less, and were more wrapt
795 XVI | described tangents to the convexity of her circumference; but
796 XVIII | have certain, irrefutable, convincing, and infallible proof,”
797 XIII | surprised the gaze; while their convulsed appearance told of Titanic
798 XLI | much broken as though by a convulsion of nature. It presented
799 XXXVII | first place, I’m going to cook this fat goose to a turn,
800 XVII | burned out the meat was cooked to a turn.~Then Joe took
801 XIX | the atmosphere was so much cooler at that point that the aeronauts
802 XLI | friends.~“That was all!” he coolly ejaculated.~“My brave Joe!
803 XXX | twenty-three, had been sent to cooperate with Dr. Barth. They met
804 XV | of wood and plates of gum copal. They were clad in brilliantly-painted
805 XV | made of the bottom of a copper kettle, and to the uproar
806 XVIII | trace it from the Greek, the Coptic, the Sanscrit; but all that
807 III | Kennedy, holding out the copy of the Daily Telegraph,
808 XVI | interlacing their trunks with the coral-shaped branches of the shrubbery
809 XXXVII | preserver!” exclaimed Kennedy, cordially.—“How goes it, Joe?”~“Oh!
810 IV | Bornou country, which is the core of the great central empire
811 XVIII | and fields of white Indian corn, doura, and sugar-cane.
812 XXXVIII| child of a poor couple in Cornwall, and, together, these men,
813 XVI | rover bird” so-called, the coroneted crane, the red and blue
814 XIV | chairman of the honorable corporation of butchers of the city
815 I | enlisted in the Bengalese Corps of Engineers, and distinguished
816 XX | spectacle—half-devoured corpses; skeletons mouldering to
817 XVIII | complexion. Women of incredible corpulence were dawdling about through
818 XXX | of its possessor. These corpulent gentry gesticulated and
819 I | dishes served were made to correspond with the importance of the
820 XXVI | of the soil at that point corresponded with the level of the sea,
821 I | most active and interesting correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,
822 XX | your team of eagles. It costs less for fodder, and is
823 XXXV | for the scantiness of his costume, for he saw that he was
824 XXXIII | work gathering in their cotton-crop in front of their huts,
825 XII | with cocoa-nut, papaw, and cotton-wood trees, above which the balloon
826 II | Telegraph published an article couched in the following terms:~“
827 XVII | animals, for the hyenas, cougars, and jackals, attracted
828 XXX | precautions. He therefore counselled his companions to have their
829 XVIII | distinguish the astonished countenances of a rather fine-looking
830 XVI | out of my course by these counter-currents contending in the atmosphere.”~“
831 XLIX | and his royal palace is a counting-house.”~“It seems to me that I
832 IV | for himself and for his countryman Overweg to join the expedition
833 VIII | to drink to “the no less courageous Kennedy, his daring companion.”~
834 XXX | brilliant colors, preceded by couriers and trumpeters, who put
835 XXXII | most Arab towns. In the court-yards of the private dwellings,
836 XXX | fullest voice, saluted him courteously in the Arabic tongue.~But,
837 XI | own dwelling. Through his courtesy, the doctor was enabled
838 XV | slave-huts, with little courtyards and small gardens, carefully
839 I | Clapperton, Clot-Bey, Colomieu, Courval, Cumming, Cuny, Debono,
840 XV | which the wealthy merchants covet; while the latter, surrounded
841 XLIX | Timbuctoo, an object generally coveted by all the tribes, since
842 XXIII | but not without casting a covetous glance at the treasures
843 XVII | and, from time to time, coveys of birds of magnificent
844 V | not serious; requite with cowardly hesitation what both the
845 XLI | observing this.~“Is there a crack or a tear in the balloon?”
846 XVIII | made these mountains the cradle of the Nile, came near to
847 III | ashamed of among his native crags.~“Ah! really, then, you
848 XVII | murmured Joe; “it’s enough to cramp a fellow’s legs!”~“Oh, yes,
849 XVI | so-called, the coroneted crane, the red and blue jays,
850 V | that he had received on the cranium. “And yet,” he would add,
851 XVI | literally on fire, and the crashes of thunder are continuous.~
852 XXVII | It was Kennedy, who had crawled up close to him, and was
853 X | the balloon. A vacuum is created below, and it attracts the
854 XXXI | sees all the animals in creation strutting along under the
855 IX | that shines up there in the Creator’s button-hole.”~“Ay, and
856 XIII | and gigantic lianas, or creeping vines. The sulphuretted
857 XL | species of grasshopper called crickets. About a hundred paces from
858 XII | never avenged so hideous a crime?” said Kennedy.~“France
859 XXIII | passions, what greed, what crimes, the knowledge of such a
860 XX | doctor, “with shutting up the criminal in his own hut with his
861 XX | these are the bodies of criminals; according to the custom
862 XXX | disturbance he made was any criterion of his rank. The common
863 I | Juan Fernandez! Often he criticised the ideas of the shipwrecked
864 III | presence at the home of his crony Dick.~The Scot talked of
865 XXXVII | jerk, and, by hook or by crook, I got to the rope. When
866 XXXII | yards wide, at that hour crowded with horsemen and foot passengers.
867 XV | upon the doctor’s heels, crowding and threatening him.~Singular
868 XVI | on below it like a vast crown of artificial fireworks
869 XXXVIII| the northwestward. A few crows were seen sweeping through
870 XLIX | banks richly grown with cruciferous plants and tamarind-trees.
871 XXII | a prisoner to one of the cruelest tribes of the Nyambarra,
872 III | three or four vessels are to cruise off the western coast of
873 XXXVI | jumped up behind him on the crupper, seized the Arab by the
874 XXIII | though in an extremely hard crystal casket.~The doctor watched
875 XV | cultivated with onions, potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, and mushrooms,
876 XIX | idea had been used already, cudgelled his wits to imagine what
877 XIX | the labors of the field, cultivating sorgho, a kind of millet
878 X | which calls for neither cumbersome wings, nor any other mechanical
879 I | Clot-Bey, Colomieu, Courval, Cumming, Cuny, Debono, Decken, Denham,
880 I | Colomieu, Courval, Cumming, Cuny, Debono, Decken, Denham,
881 XII | m going to get you up a cup of coffee that I think you’
882 XXX | if he were perched in the cupola of St. Paul’s. So we can
883 XII | moments later, three steaming cups of coffee were served, and
884 XVIII | by an obligatory diet of curdled milk.~At noon, the Victoria
885 XIII | and sunshine.”~“There’s a cure for you!” said Joe; “why,
886 XXII | said Joe, “one of those cursed blacks is hanging to the
887 XXVII | clogged with hot dust.~“Curses on it!” he yelled, in his
888 XVIII | It bent around in such a curve as to end in a wide angle
889 XVII | whitish tusks, beautifully curved, and about eight feet in
890 XXXII | air in rapid, fantastic curves, occasionally precipitating
891 XXIII | thing. Kennedy took his customary place, and Joe followed,
892 XV | juice of the euphorbium, the cutlass, the “sima,” a long sabre (
893 XLII | We must get rid of the cylinder-chests, the spiral, and the Buntzen
894 XV | of the “upatu,” a sort of cymbal made of the bottom of a
895 XII | Discovery, by Charles Beke, D.D.”~He also had the excellent
896 XX | bodies, and suspended by daggers thrust into the bark of
897 XL | along to the kingdom of Dahomey, among the most savage races,
898 XV | smile.~Thereupon, the young damsels, conjoining their voices
899 XVI | with electric sparks, which danced and flickered beneath the
900 XLI | obeyed, and the two anchors dangled below the balloon.~“I see
901 XV | being carved. Long lines of dark-red clay decorated the walls
902 XV | good.”~“Shall we let this darky drop all at once?” inquired
903 XX | faces of those astonished darkys!”~“Oh! it’s natural enough
904 XVI | permitted to see it.”~The sun, darting his last rays beneath the
905 XXV | rain, and a fresh wind to dash it into our faces!”~“Well,
906 XXXVIII| bring back any authentic data concerning it. On the 4th
907 XII | Unfortunate Maizan.—Mount Dathumi.—The Doctor’s Cards.—Night
908 XV | fields of cannabis and datura; superb trees and depths
909 XVIII | incredible corpulence were dawdling about through the cultivated
910 XXXIV | brave and candid heart! Dazzled for a moment by his sudden
911 XIV | stones; there’s plenty of dry dead-wood, and I can make the hot
912 VII | system of elastic springs, to deaden the shock of collision.
913 XXVIII | the tea and the punch were dealt out with no niggardly hand.~
914 XXVI | A Night Walk.—Solitude.—Debility.—Joe’s Prospects.—He gives
915 XXIII | harbor! May he pay for me the debt of gratitude that I owe
916 XLI | the Arab! I like to pay my debts, and now we are even,” added
917 XLIX | The Chart of Dr. Barth. —A Decaying City.—Whither Heaven wills.~
918 III | But, my balloon will not deceive me, and we need make no
919 II | centuries have not been able to decipher. In other days, to seek
920 XLII | that however serious the decision may appear, we must sacrifice
921 VI | latter received all his decisions! When Ferguson had spoken,
922 V | will NOT fall!”~This was decisive, and Kennedy had nothing
923 XLI | Fouta, Al-Hadji by name, declaring himself to be inspired like
924 XLIII | the low levels and gentle declivities that lead down to the Senegal.~“
925 X | electricity, and then I decompose it by means of a powerful
926 XXVI | kept the water that he had decomposed in pure loss, in order to
927 IX | indefatigable narrator, “they’ll decorate us with the Southern Cross
928 XV | Long lines of dark-red clay decorated the walls in characters
929 XXVII | is expecting us.”~“Let us decoy the animal. Take my piece,
930 IV | Geographical Society of Paris decreed them its annual prize medal.~
931 XXXVIII| they had done enough in decreeing him the prize of the Geographical
932 XIX | a jumble of notions, and deduced systems from them. Down
933 XIII | dotted with trees of very deep-green foliage. Then came crests
934 XXVI | disappeared entirely in the deepening gloom. The doctor, cool,
935 XI | the trip would be totally defeated; therefore we must act with
936 XL | southern part of Africa was defeating his calculations, and he
937 XLIII | Leaps of the Balloon.—A Defence with Fire-arms.—The Wind
938 XXIII | Joe, driven to his last defences, “couldn’t we take some
939 XXXII | Well, if they do, we’ll defend ourselves. We have a whole
940 XLI | river. This stronghold was defended by Paul Holl, who, for several
941 XIV | sounds to me as if he was defending himself against something.”~“
942 XXVIII | ideas, there was a slight deficiency of ferocious wild beasts
943 XIX | muffled by the heavy mist, was defined but vaguely. The monotony,
944 II | hundred pounds was voted to defray the expenses of the enterprise.~“
945 XXXII | fifty feet of them, as if defying the fire-arms.~“By George,
946 XVI | drops of rain.~“We have delayed too long,” exclaimed the
947 IX | heavenly picture of the delights of Venus.~“And when we get
948 XXVII | Throughout the day he was delirious, pacing up and down, uttering
949 XV | The speaker below then delivered himself of a very copious
950 XXII | hands to his unexpected deliverers.~“He is alive!” exclaimed
951 XII | Guillaume Lejean; and the Delta of the Niger, by Dr. Blaikie.~
952 XIII | these clouds that are now deluging us, and remove you from
953 XII | said Kennedy.~“France did demand satisfaction, and the Said
954 XVI | fully produced what had been demanded of it. Where two harvests
955 II | W. Koner, triumphantly demonstrated the feasibility of the journey,
956 XI | utterly failed.~As some demonstration against the personal safety
957 XV | The clamor, the songs and demonstrations of all kinds increased twofold,
958 XV | motion put aside his too demonstrative admirers and went out of
959 XV | alone into that blackamoor’s den?”~“How! doctor, am I not
960 XXXII | towns, separated by the “Dendal,” a large boulevard three
961 XXXV | cabins, huts, hovels, and dens of every description, that
962 XIX | aspect, but less flat, less denuded, and with a few trees standing
963 XXX | very polite invitation to depart. Indeed, he would have asked
964 IV | whom are cannibals.~They departed again on the 26th of May,
965 XXX | heats, when making dangerous departures, and descents still more
966 XLII | a barbarous country, and dependent upon a vehicle that might
967 XXXV | get out of the scrape by depending only on himself. And so
968 XIII | merely inclined planes. The depressions in the soil are covered
969 XXXI | could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle
970 XVIII | the lake must have great depth of water. Only one or two
971 XII | belonged to the Atlas of “Der Neuester Endeckungen in
972 II | in the Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, de la Geographie,
973 I | Debono, Decken, Denham, Desavanchers, Dicksen, Dickson, Dochard,
974 X | and neither mounts nor descends.~“In order, then, to effect
975 XXX | dangerous departures, and descents still more dangerous, it
976 IX | doctor was pursuing his descriptive course of lecturing in the
977 XXVI | vast yellow expanse of the desert-sand, at length produced a sensation
978 XXVI | kind of malady called the “desert-sickness.” The impassible monotony
979 II | for Providence alone to designate.~“The proposal for this
980 XXXVIII| brother-in-law Anderson, Scott, the designer, and a gang of workmen;
981 XV | strangers were imposters, designing scamps, false deities!~Such
982 XXIV | cover the whole of this desolate region.~However, there was
983 XLI | carried destruction and desolation over the regions between
984 XXIII | save him,” said the doctor, despairingly.~“The infamous scoundrels!”
985 XXV | and the doctor in perfect desperation descended toward the ground,
986 XXV | of thirst, and were in no desponding mood, excepting for the
987 XVII | control is an unlimited despotism. Their most compact union
988 VIII | arrived while they were at dessert. Her Majesty offered her
989 IV | days in the most abject destitution. He then managed to get
990 XLIX | said Kennedy.~“They were destroyed by the Fouillanes in 1826;
991 XLII | vegetation, writhed in the destructive element. The eye took in
992 XV | vigorously that he succeeded in detaching the anchor, and the latter,
993 XXXIII | that Joe should have been detained on one of the islands of
994 XXI | fancied that he sometimes detected vague gleams of light in
995 XLI | all hazards, to avoid a detention in these regions. The forests
996 XXVII | his flesh, when a second detonation resounded in the narrow
997 XLIII | Talabas.—The Pursuit.—A Devastated Country.—The Wind begins
998 XIX | rending, tearing down, devastating every thing in their path;
999 XVI | tempests of the tropics develop with a rapidity equalled
1000 I | whether these tendencies were developed during a youth of adventure,
1001 XXX | the Mandara country was developing to the gaze of our aeronauts
1002 XV | descended slowly, without deviating from its perpendicular.
1003 XIV | we have, including our deviations, travelled nearly five hundred
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