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1004 III | Have faith, and let my device be yours—‘Excelsior!’”~“‘
1005 XV | them. “I’m a clever sort of devil, if I am the son of a goddess.”~
1006 XXI | lay our heads together to devise some plan, and in the morning
1007 III | no other means have been devised, and it is this that has
1008 XLIV | housekeeper.~The doctor and his devoted Joe remained the same men
1009 XIX | camels; then a lion comes up, devours the camels, swallows the
1010 XXXVIII| from us. Under the names of Dhiouleba, Mayo, Egghirreou, Quorra,
1011 XXXVIII| River,’ according to the dialects of the countries through
1012 I | Decken, Denham, Desavanchers, Dicksen, Dickson, Dochard, Du Chaillu,
1013 XXXIV | direction taken by our aeronauts differed somewhat from that of the
1014 XXV | conscience in the matter. We’ll dig down to the very bottom
1015 XXVIII | food that’s pretty hard to digest.”~“The savages don’t boggle
1016 XVI | sportsman. “What kind of a dignitary was this Sultan of Kazeh?”~“
1017 XXIV | of service to us, for it dilates the hydrogen in the balloon,
1018 XIX | the appendage by which the dilating-pipes entered the main apparatus.
1019 XXXIV | refused to obey the different dilations of the gas. Caught in these
1020 III | for the doctor, he went on diligently with his preparations.~
1021 XXIV | hydrogen in the balloon, and diminishes the amount required in the
1022 XIII | thermometer indicated a certain diminution of temperature. The land
1023 XIV | s journey, in a fertile dip of the soil, vegetation
1024 XIV | the anchor; the car then dipped to where he was, and he
1025 XIX | asked Joe.~“Undoubtedly; and disagreeably inhabited, too.”~“I thought
1026 V | de Heuglin, owing to some disagreement, took a route different
1027 XXXV | The Victoria seen.—She disappears.—The Swamp. —One Last Despairing
1028 XXXII | time, the doctor will not disapprove of your shooting.”~“But
1029 XXI | the time plainly enough discernible, not merely to the eye but
1030 XXIV | and self-possession of a disciplined heart. With his glass he
1031 V | his friend. Let us also disclose the fact that, without knowing
1032 XXXV | or six miles by no means disconcerted him; and therefore, so long
1033 XXIV | kind that arise in hours of discouragement, succeeded each other and
1034 IX | on with his instructive discourses.~One day the conversation
1035 II | appreciating.~“This intrepid discoverer proposes to traverse all
1036 I | seeking than in discussing, in discovering rather than discoursing.~
1037 I | glorious sons, will not reflect discredit on his origin.” (“No, indeed!”
1038 VI | wondered at that incessant discussions sprang up between him and
1039 XVI | diminishing every day. Those new diseases that annually attack the
1040 XI | Arrangements were made for disembarking the balloon upon the beach
1041 XXVI | lightning. Notwithstanding this disheartening clearness of the sky, great
1042 I | honor. The dimensions of the dishes served were made to correspond
1043 XXXII | wind, burying itself in the disinflated covering, bore them away
1044 XXIII | animals should not be able to disinter the corpse.~The body of
1045 I | together the notions, as yet disjointed, which the world entertains
1046 XXV | the height of the sun’s disk. The latter then disappeared
1047 XV | distended, held dangling to them disks of wood and plates of gum
1048 XXX | from the sky, the sheik dismounted and prostrated himself in
1049 XLIII | should amuse myself with dismounting a few of them.”~“Exactly,”
1050 XV | surrounded by a yelling and disorderly throng. The chiefs and sorcerers
1051 XXXIV | tornado, an entire caravan, disorganized, broken, and overthrown,
1052 XIV | present case compelled them to dispense with hunting-dogs, and,
1053 X | directly; so, at the start, I dispensed with ballast altogether,
1054 XXXII | then, to destroy them or disperse them? I will give a good
1055 X | when half inflated, it displaces a weight of air exactly
1056 XVI | stormy belt. The electric display was going on below it like
1057 XXX | out from his residence, displaying his green standard, and
1058 XII | which the balloon seemed to disport itself like a bird. Joe
1059 XVIII | hippopotami could be seen disporting themselves in the forests
1060 XII | to-day?” asked Kennedy, disposing of some alarming mouthfuls.~
1061 XX | wounded, scrambling and disputing for the still warm and reeking
1062 XXVIII | Culinary Performance.—A Dissertation on Raw Meat.—The Narrative
1063 XX | single stroke, carried the dissevered member to his mouth, and
1064 XVI | go up before those clouds dissolve in water, and the wind is
1065 XI | threats, but his friend dissuaded him from any idea of violent
1066 XV | Their ears, frightfully distended, held dangling to them disks
1067 X | heat it obtains a larger distention, and inflates the balloon
1068 VIII | were received with much distinction by the captain and his officers,
1069 XVI | group of villages scarcely distinguishable in the gloom. Once in a
1070 XI | hundred pounds of ballast were distributed in fifty bags placed at
1071 XVIII | scientific speculations failed to disturb to that extent, were not
1072 XXX | minister—at least, if the disturbance he made was any criterion
1073 XVI | disclosed a succession of ditches regularly arranged, and,
1074 XXXI | the alligator frisk and dive where the dwellings of Bornou
1075 XLIII | Al-Hadji’s horde had to diverge to the northward in order
1076 III | knife-blade, but he could divide it into two such equal parts
1077 XXXVIII| snipes went sailing and diving through. Here and there,
1078 XV | let them keep on. For a divinity, he had the air of a very
1079 XXXIV | Tibbous, crossed the Belad el Djerid, a desert of briers that
1080 V | the west, by way of the Djob, a river lying under the
1081 I | Desavanchers, Dicksen, Dickson, Dochard, Du Chaillu, Duncan, Durand,
1082 V | replied the Scotchman, with docility.~“Stop at Gondokoro.”~“I
1083 XIII | Dick into good air, as the doctors do, every day, in Europe,
1084 XIV | to look upon, with their dog-like muzzles and savage expression.
1085 XLI | and thinner,” said Joe, dolefully, while he eyed her. “Poor
1086 XXXVIII| gold, or about twenty-five dollars, go from Timbuctoo to Tafilet
1087 XIV | soil like so many Druidic dolmens; the bones of buffaloes
1088 XIII | as for me, who am but a dolt, I prefer keeping at the
1089 XLII | no doubt, been under the dominion of a mere hallucination.
1090 XV | of mules, the braying of donkeys, the singing of women, the
1091 XXI | to hasten the hour of his doom. We must act!”~“But how,
1092 VII | perfectly. The silk was doubled, at the upper extremity
1093 XXVIII | do?”~“Why, I’ll make the doubters swallow the pieces of the
1094 XLIII | its network; but it was doubtful whether it would reach the
1095 XXXV | Mele, or the fruit of the doum palm-tree; and yet, according
1096 XVIII | fields of white Indian corn, doura, and sugar-cane. The tribes
1097 X | concave base, that is turned downward in the shape of a spherical
1098 XX | but a new idea, and I have dozens of them,” said Joe; “if
1099 XXVII | longing came over him to drain the last few drops of water
1100 XVI | purified by cultivation and by drainage of the soil, and those scattered
1101 XXII | mountain with a veritable drapery of flame; the lower half
1102 XVII | detach the balloon from its draught-animal at last.~Kennedy was intrusted
1103 XXVII | scorching waste to drink long draughts, and rose again with his
1104 XXI | Yes; but there is one drawback: it consists in the fact
1105 XV | conjoining their voices in a drawling chant, began to dance around
1106 XI | companions had suffered dreadfully from hunger and bad weather
1107 XXII | thought that he must have been dreaming, when a voice, that seemed
1108 XIII | compelled to go afoot over that drenched soil,” said he, “we should
1109 XIII | violent shower was not long in drenching our travellers. Below them,
1110 XXX | and at all hours.~The wind drifted a little more to the northward,
1111 XXXV | He caught sight of a boat drifting about, without occupants,
1112 XIII | the thickest cloth, and drives the victim crazy! All this,
1113 XIII | try it!” said Joe, in his droll way.~“I exaggerate nothing,”
1114 XXI | to these words—no doubt drowning the prisoner’s reply.~“They
1115 XIII | Egad, Samuel, if you’ve any drug in your travelling-chest
1116 XIV | studded the soil like so many Druidic dolmens; the bones of buffaloes
1117 XV | Sultan’s Wives.—A Royal Drunken-Bout.— Joe an Object of Worship.—
1118 XV | years was simply perpetual drunkenness. The royal sot had nearly
1119 XXV | and powdery sand—the very dryest of all sand, indeed—there
1120 XXVII | felt their limbs gradually drying up, and when Joe attempted
1121 XIX | returned with half a dozen wild ducks and a kind of snipe, which
1122 XLIV | RODAMEL, Naval Ensign,~“DUFAYS, Sergeant,~“FLIPPEAU, MAYOR,
1123 XVIII | Victoria over the equator duly celebrated.~The balloon
1124 I | Dickson, Dochard, Du Chaillu, Duncan, Durand, Duroule, Duveyrier,
1125 I | Dochard, Du Chaillu, Duncan, Durand, Duroule, Duveyrier, D’Escayrac,
1126 XXIV | In distance, yes; but in duration, no, should the wind leave
1127 I | Chaillu, Duncan, Durand, Duroule, Duveyrier, D’Escayrac,
1128 XLI | and, the wind falling as dusk came on, she remained motionlessly
1129 XXVII | particles, and the rising dust-tide gained more and more with
1130 XXXIV | heard issuing from that dusty and stifling cloud, and,
1131 XXII | centre of those tribes that dwell among the tributary streams
1132 XIII | like threads, and the lakes dwindle to ponds.~The doctor and
1133 XL | toward evening; the forests dwindled to isolated clumps of trees;
1134 XXXI | foliage of trees of various dyes; lianas and climbing plants
1135 XVII | foundation of a Robinson Crusoe dynasty in Africa.~The proposition
1136 XII | The sands which, at an earlier period, formed the coast-line,
1137 XXIII | eternal, is but the end of earthly cares. Place me upon my
1138 XXX | asked Kennedy.~“Nothing easier, Dick! We are right over
1139 XIV | we’ll take all the good eatable parts of it, and, if you’
1140 XII | protected its margin, and the ebb-tide disclosed to view their
1141 XXII | life now in his charge was ebbing away. Were they then so
1142 XXII | had drawn him toward an ecclesiastical career, but to this life
1143 XXXII | had struck a current that edged it farther to the westward.
1144 XV | palace, a sort of square edifice called ititenya, and situated
1145 XLIV | Telegraph struck off an edition of three hundred and seventy-seven
1146 XII | could hope to escape its effects only by rising above the
1147 XXXVIII| names of Dhiouleba, Mayo, Egghirreou, Quorra, and other titles
1148 III | another self, indeed, an alter ego, for friendship could not
1149 XXVIII | impossible, you have been egregiously mistaken; and, in proof
1150 XX | even the Great Pyramid of Egypt. The trunk at the surface
1151 IV | Penney—the head of the Egyptian medical service, who, in
1152 XXXVIII| the 19th, he arrived at El-Arouan, and left that commercial
1153 XIII | ten minutes had scarcely elapsed ere the travellers were
1154 VII | protected below by a system of elastic springs, to deaden the shock
1155 XLII | darkness. Ferguson, resting his elbows on the rim of the car, gazed
1156 I | immense audience, completely electrified by these inspiring words.~“
1157 XVII | temperature. The pieces of elephant-meat, surrounded with aromatic
1158 XIV | particular excepting some immense elephant-pits. In fact, he came very near
1159 XI | extremities, afforded the means of elevating the balloon, by the aid
1160 XVI | produced by the fires of St. Elmo, that were now skipping
1161 I | applause.~This rare specimen of eloquence terminated with the following
1162 | elsewhere
1163 III | maid-of-all-work, the aged Elspeth, tried to insinuate that
1164 XXI | that he should manage to elude the vigilance of his captors.
1165 XLIX | is changing. Bravo!—the elves and fairies of the place
1166 XIII | The sulphuretted hydrogen emanations, which Captain Burton mentions,
1167 XLIV | friends were enabled to embark almost immediately on the
1168 XVIII | Enormous rocks, here and there, embarrassed the course of this mysterious
1169 VII | These sheet-iron chests were embedded in the car in such a way
1170 XXX | meeting, he will not fail to embellish the circumstance with all
1171 XIII | farther on, became forests, embellished the horizon. The doctor
1172 XVI | as if to crush it in its embrace.~All at once a violent,
1173 XI | captain and his officers embraced their dauntless friends
1174 XXXVIII| countries which the Niger embraces in its elbow; and, after
1175 III | herculean strength; a face embrowned by the sun; eyes keen and
1176 XV | the whole population had emerged from their hiding-places
1177 XXV | distinct, could be seen slowly emerging above the horizon. It appeared
1178 XXX | of Mosfeia, built upon an eminence which was itself enclosed
1179 VIII | XIII; Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon by his Holiness,
1180 XVII | lucky circumstances for us, enabling us, as they do, to reconnoitre
1181 XXIV | left visible traces of its encampments, or the whitened bones of
1182 III | died out, was perfectly enchanted. They would have ended badly,
1183 XXVIII | to remain forever in this enchanting asylum; it was the realm
1184 XXXIII | of clean and neatly-kept enclosures. This collection of about
1185 I | itself. So a subscription to encourage Dr. Ferguson was voted there
1186 II | of all this, a thousand encouragements were offered, and felicitations
1187 XXIV | this; but I needed these encouraging words. Yet, once again,
1188 VII | be cast off as a useless encumbrance; and the second balloon,
1189 XXXIV | return! But here we are endangering the safety of all.”~“Must
1190 XLIII | see these unfortunate men endeavoring to escape by those huge
1191 XII | the Atlas of “Der Neuester Endeckungen in Afrika” (“The Latest
1192 XXXV | choruses, accompanied by endless dances by gangs of natives
1193 XXXVIII| replied Dr. Ferguson, “are endowed by nature with a wonderful
1194 XXV | not, up to this moment, endured the real agonies of thirst,
1195 XLIII | brought another of the enemy to the ground.~Cries of
1196 V | De Heuglin.~Dr. Ferguson energetically pushed the preparations
1197 XXX | set up a furious howl to enforce immediate obedience on the
1198 I | in the Bengalese Corps of Engineers, and distinguished himself
1199 XV | wizard will be enormously enhanced in the sight of his comrades.”~“
1200 II | give us the key to that enigma which the learned men of
1201 XLII | expired, he woke Kennedy, and, enjoining upon him to observe the
1202 XVI | let us rest content with enjoying the beauties of this country
1203 XV | those articles of luxury and enjoyment which the wealthy merchants
1204 XXVIII | succession of annoyances and enjoyments!” moralized Kennedy. “Such
1205 XLIII | mean time, the doctor had enlarged the orifice of the balloon
1206 I | around the world. He had enlisted in the Bengalese Corps of
1207 XV | power of the wizard will be enormously enhanced in the sight of
1208 XXIII | There is enough here to enrich whole nations! An Australia
1209 XLII | calmly lit his pipe. He then ensconced himself in a corner, and
1210 XXIV | scattered heat which the ensuing day would again bequeath
1211 XIII | rendered impracticable, entangled as they were, besides, with
1212 IX | southernmost point of Africa, and enter the Mozambique Channel.~
1213 XVIII | It is the Nile! We cannot entertain a doubt on that score now,”
1214 I | disjointed, which the world entertains of African cartology” (vehement
1215 XII | concerning the Nile. It was entitled “The Sources of the Nile;
1216 VI | ape Achilles, at Hyde-Park entrance, and was superb in it, without
1217 XXVII | him.~“We are blocked in—entrapped!”~“Impossible! What does
1218 V | wasted his breath in pathetic entreaties, by which the latter seemed
1219 II | betting-books were covered with entries of immense sums, as though
1220 XXX | up, was making his grand entry into the place.~The doctor
1221 XXXVIII| the Arabs, who must have envied her rapidity. That evening
1222 VIII | a young midshipman, with envious eyes, “what splendid shots
1223 XLIX | indifference which seems epidemic to cities that are passing
1224 XIII | travail in the earliest epoch of the world’s existence.~
1225 II | immense sums, as though the Epsom races were at stake.~Thus,
1226 XVI | develop with a rapidity equalled only by their violence.
1227 IV | Escayrac de Lauture made an equally unsuccessful attempt to
1228 XXXIII | skilful lad, and had few equals as a swimmer. He would find
1229 V | foreign office; he is to equip a steamer at Karthoum, stock
1230 XV | divine sons.”~The doctor, equipped with his travelling medicine-chest,
1231 II | Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine Erdkunde, by Dr. W. Koner, triumphantly
1232 XXIII | to his car.~He would have erected a plain, rude cross over
1233 I | D’Escayrac, De Lauture, Erhardt, Ferret, Fresnel, Galinier,
1234 XIII | the soil is bestrewn with erratic blocks of stone and gravelly
1235 IX | that has been one great error.”~“Still there are many
1236 X | pressure is attained, the steam escapes of itself.~“Here are the
1237 II | Malte-Brun”); and a searching essay in the Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine
1238 XLIV | Ferguson’s expedition was to establish, in the most precise manner,
1239 XVIII | rotundity, which is highly esteemed in that region, was obtained
1240 XVII | resisted wonderfully, and, upon estimating the exact height of the
1241 XXVI | immensity is a species of eternity.~Thus, at last, our hapless
1242 I | bringing back some curious ethnographic observations from that expedition.~
1243 IX | out Atmospheric Currents.—Eureka.~The Resolute plunged along
1244 IX | sailors.~Thus passed the long evenings on the forecastle in merry
1245 XVI | let us be ready for every event, even for fire—our fall
1246 | everything
1247 | everywhere
1248 VI | he once gets started, the Evil One himself couldn’t make
1249 XV | contortions and extravagant evolutions; throwing himself into incredible
1250 XXXI | difficult to trace with exactitude, for it is surrounded by
1251 XIII | Joe, in his droll way.~“I exaggerate nothing,” continued Ferguson, “
1252 XXXV | gave his new adorers an exalted idea of how the gods tuck
1253 XXXVI | speaking he stood up to examine the horizon.~“I think not,
1254 XXIII | not long in following his example.~“Keep cool, Joe,” said
1255 XXXII | No, Dick; not now! Don’t exasperate them needlessly. That would
1256 XLIII | the ground.~Cries of fury exceeding all description hailed the
1257 X | hydrogen, the heat of which exceeds that of a forge fire.~“This
1258 | except
1259 XVIII | rapidity of the wind became excessive, approaching thirty miles
1260 XLIII | later, and without having exchanged a word, they descended gradually
1261 I | cried one of the most excitable of the enthusiastic crowd.~
1262 XV | the paternal goods, to the exclusion of the old man’s legitimate
1263 XXXVIII| tail a bag to receive its excrement, the only fuel on which
1264 IX | and not for short aerial excursions.”~“And why so, if you please?”~“
1265 XXIII | words only to pity them, to excuse, to pardon them!”~“Heaven
1266 XX | monster. A Soudan negro may be excused, then, for opening his eyes
1267 XXXVII | death.” At its foot the executioner stands waiting, and whoever
1268 XXXV | comparative relief in his exemption from that other distressing
1269 XLII | the cost of most severe exertion, and the trio partook of
1270 XXX | and shape to them; but his exertions were all to no purpose.~
1271 XVII | all redolent with fragrant exhalations, reappeared to the gaze
1272 XII | range of the miasma that exhales from this damp region whence
1273 XXIV | noon poured down the same exhaustless rays, and night condensed
1274 II | nature of the obstacles existing, the immense advantages
1275 XVIII | the north, and this river exists, and we are descending it,
1276 XVIII | deep and winding gorge gave exit to a turbulent and foaming
1277 I | accomplished explorer whose stomach expands or contracts at will; whose
1278 XXVII | this, and the doctor is expecting us.”~“Let us decoy the animal.
1279 XLIII | then was very careful to expel the last remnant of hydrogen
1280 IX | take it up and down without expending the gas which is its strength,
1281 XXIV | it would not require an expenditure of water to put it in motion,
1282 X | cylinder, when fully open, expends 27 cubic feet per hour,
1283 II | was voted to defray the expenses of the enterprise.~“We shall
1284 III | Each could call himself expert in his own province, and
1285 XVI | atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up our Globe!”~“
1286 XII | The “ohs!” and the “ahs!” exploded one after the other, incessantly,
1287 XV | those of the west, which export cotton, glassware, and trinkets,
1288 XXI | your courage; but you would expose us all to great peril, and
1289 VIII | the two travellers, and expressed her wishes for their safe
1290 XIX | diet; and the most stupid expressions of astonishment ensued as
1291 I | His countenance was coldly expressive, with regular features,
1292 XXXV | him; but a tree grew there expressly to offer him a bed among
1293 XVII | leaves, were placed in this extempore oven and covered with hot
1294 XI | continually fighting. This traffic extends along the whole eastern
1295 XI | balloon was fastened to the exterior one, in such manner as to
1296 XIX | continually waging a war of extermination. You may form some idea,
1297 VII | smaller in the larger one. His external balloon, which had the dimensions
1298 XXVI | gave out; the cylinder was extinguished for lack of gas; the Buntzen
1299 XXVIII | time with the most profuse extravagance.~“What a strange succession
1300 XLII | upon him to observe the extremest vigilance, took his place
1301 XI | tackle, placed at their extremities, afforded the means of elevating
1302 XXXIII | in narrow strips so as to extricate it from the meshes of the
1303 I | disclosed uncommon address in extricating himself from difficulty;
1304 XXVII | shouted Joe, with wild exultation.~Kennedy rushed toward the
1305 XLI | re clear!” cried out an exulting voice that made Ferguson’
1306 XX | with bits, we’d do it with eye-blinkers that would cover their eyes.
1307 XXV | moment, for that piercing eyesight of his beat all the glasses.~
1308 XXVIII | exclaimed the doctor, eying the heavens. “But it is
1309 I | to invent one!” replied a facetious member of this grave Society.~“
1310 II | set on foot at London; the factories of Lyons received a heavy
1311 VI | his balloon at Mitchell’s factory in the Borough?”~“I’ll take
1312 XLIV | most precise manner, the facts and geographical surveys
1313 VI | Kepler’s professor, the rare faculty of distinguishing the satellites
1314 XXV | long this picture began to fade away; the clouds rose higher,
1315 XIII | The Zungomoro district was fading out of sight in the east
1316 I | tomahawks and war-clubs; the fagot and the stake; nay, even
1317 XL | and the doctor felt it failing him. However, as the weather
1318 XXXI | my dear Dick, your memory fails you, or your modesty makes
1319 II | thirdly, upon the success or failure of the enterprise; and fourthly,
1320 XXXVI | emotion, the poor fellow fainted away, while Kennedy, almost
1321 XXII | exhaustion, relapsed into his fainting-fit.~“He is dying!” said Kennedy.~“
1322 XXVIII | provokingly and obstinately fair. The balloon remained motionless,
1323 XLIX | changing. Bravo!—the elves and fairies of the place are quite obliging.
1324 XVII | head. On this he halted, faltered, his knees bent under him,
1325 XX | and sometimes with his family. They then set fire to the
1326 XIX | be eaten, in a moment of famine, I want it to be for your
1327 XI | Nothing is so blind as fanatical passion. The news of the
1328 XI | fuel on the flame of their fanaticism; and some of the excited
1329 XI | returned upon their excited fancies with intense force at this
1330 XXXIII | during his watch, sometimes fancying that they heard the voice
1331 XII | of reach of the leopards’ fangs. Luxuriant vegetation spread
1332 XVI | of some gigantic bellows, fanning all this conflagration.~
1333 VIII | midnight, after touching farewells and warm shaking of hands,
1334 XXXIII | which the doctor took to be Farram, on which the capital of
1335 XLII | Victoria, released from her fastenings, spun upward a thousand
1336 I | of an orthodox school of fatalism withal, that led him to
1337 XXVI | starting-point remained fatally right below him, and absolute
1338 XLI | River and its tributary, the Fateme. Three hordes of fanatics
1339 XXXV | vainly during all that long, fatiguing day of sore foot-travel,
1340 XIX | take good care of him, and fatten him up.”~“Maybe so!” said
1341 XX | and eagerly devouring it.~“Faugh!” uttered Joe, “it’s sickening.”~
1342 XLI | handing to the sportsman his favorite weapon. “I’d feel very badly
1343 XI | furious orgies, and got fearfully drunk on “tembo,” a kind
1344 XIX | distinguish objects, and so, fearing collision with some unexpected
1345 VI | ordered to be done, quite feasible; all that he undertook,
1346 XXXII | necks, entirely bare of feathers, could be plainly seen,
1347 XXXV | made known this singular feature of the shores of Lake Tchad,
1348 XIII | Dick; for I can give you a febrifuge that won’t cost any thing.”~“
1349 XXVI | atmosphere.~At length the feeding-supply of water gave out; the cylinder
1350 XXVIII | the first opportunity. The feeding-tank and the water-tank were
1351 V | according to the recital of a felatah of Bornou, Vogel was merely
1352 XXX | an expedition against the Fellatahs; he assisted in the attack
1353 XXI | over it when the life of a fellow-creature is at stake.”~“You are right,
1354 XXVIII | he comes across, even his fellow-creatures, although that must be a
1355 XXXVII | big wood. There I saw a fenced-in place, where some horses
1356 XXXVII | hedges; I scrambled over the fences; I dug my heels into my
1357 IV | narrative of the German doctor, Ferdinand Werne, the expedition attempted
1358 III | that some great thought was fermenting in his brain.~“What can
1359 I | hero on his isle of Juan Fernandez! Often he criticised the
1360 XIX | unfortunately, proven true, is, the ferocity of these tribes, who are
1361 I | Escayrac, De Lauture, Erhardt, Ferret, Fresnel, Galinier, Galton,
1362 XXXV | part of the night, he heard festive chantings, the reverberations
1363 XV | usually deposited in the fetich huts or mzimu. These gifts
1364 XIII | complained of lassitude and feverish chills. The weather was
1365 XII | were seized with violent fevers, and for a moment thought
1366 XII | aspect: the villages are fewer and farther between; the
1367 XXX | Mourzouk, the capital of Fez, and, following the route
1368 IV | Mourzouk, the capital of Fezzan.~They then abandoned the
1369 XV | of “kilt” woven from the fibres of calabash fastened around
1370 XXXII | glimpse of it, for, with the fickleness that characterizes the air-currents
1371 Note | incidents and adventures fictitious. The latter are abundantly
1372 XVII | Death of the Monster.—The Field-Oven.—A Meal on the Grass.—A
1373 XXV | much as one hundred and fifty-eight degrees sometimes, and the
1374 XXVI | longitude, and six degrees fifty-one minutes north latitude,
1375 VI | thing.”~“One hundred and fifty-three pounds,” said the doctor,
1376 XVIII | and thirty-two degrees fifty-two minutes east longitude,
1377 XX | The Celestial Bottle.—The Fig-Palms.—The Mammoth Trees.—The
1378 XX | s simply the trunk of a fig-tree,” replied the doctor, “on
1379 XX | they’d be just like the fighters of all the rest of the world!”~“
1380 XIV | world. I was thinking what a figure we’d cut if we couldn’t
1381 I | the boiled sturgeon that figured at this magnificent repast
1382 XXXVIII| Joe, pointing to a long file of animals and men winding
1383 XLIX | with watchful eyes.~Long files of camels and asses laden
1384 VIII | acid and ten tons of iron filings, were put on board for the
1385 XIII | vegetation. Various water-courses filter through, toward the east,
1386 XX | hanging!” said the Scot; “filthier, that’s all!”~“In the southern
1387 XV | by-the-way, most professionally filthy.~Little by little the crowd
1388 XVIII | countenances of a rather fine-looking race of natives of yellowish-brown
1389 III | preparations are getting along finely, and I—”~“Where are your
1390 XXXVII | not complain. Never was a finer voyage accomplished under
1391 XXVII | mean?—”~Dick had no time to finish; a terrific roar made him
1392 XXVIII | Joe began to get ready his firewood for the night, making just
1393 XXXIII | Around this fragment of terra firma grew reeds as lofty as trees
1394 XVI | above them, the starry firmament, tranquil, mute, impassible,
1395 XXXIV | each other speak, but with firmly-clinched hands they clung convulsively
1396 XI | a large quantity of the first-named fluid. The hydrogen passed
1397 XXXIII | difficulty in swimming across the Firth of Forth at Edinburgh. We
1398 III | Reekie. Sometimes he was a fisherman, but he was always and everywhere
1399 XXXIII | navigated the lake; and the wild fishermen, terrified at the sight
1400 XVII | what whalemen do when out fishing.”~But a change in the nature
1401 XIII | yellow plains, parched and fissured by the intense heat, and,
1402 XXIII | to look long among those fissures of slaty schist without
1403 XXIII | his teeth, in one of those fits of rage that came over him
1404 XXVII | breast, gazing with idiotic fixedness upon some imaginary point
1405 XLIII | outer covering was becoming flaccid, and floated loosely in
1406 XVII | and he uncovered his whole flank to the assaults of his enemies
1407 XIX | villages clinging to its flanks like a whole brood of children
1408 XVI | from thirty to thirty-five flashes of lightning per minute.
1409 XVI | calm as ever even amid the flashing of the lightnings; he was
1410 XL | going and coming of the flat-bottomed boats that convey its inhabitants
1411 XXIV | Anxieties. —The Situation flatly stated.—Energetic Replies
1412 XVII | that the first ball fired flattened itself on the animal’s skull,
1413 XV | me much. I like a little flattery!”~At this moment, one of
1414 IV | 17th of March, 1854, and fled to the frontier, where he
1415 XXVIII | have been forever lost.~But fleet-footed Joe put forth his utmost
1416 XIV | two hunters, with their flexible nostrils.~Kennedy stole
1417 XVI | sparks, which danced and flickered beneath the great drops
1418 XIX | must come down from these flights from time to time, and accept
1419 XXXVI | of despair as he saw Joe fling himself to the ground. His
1420 XXIV | tract of grayish sand and flint, with here and there a lentisk
1421 XLIV | Ensign,~“DUFAYS, Sergeant,~“FLIPPEAU, MAYOR, PELISSIER, LOROIS,
1422 XX | flocks of birds of prey flitting about the horizon.~“They
1423 XXXV | can this be?” said he; “a flood! a water-spout! or a new
1424 XVI | harvests sung by Homer had flourished, her children abandoned
1425 XVIII | circular huts, covered with a flowering thatch, constituted the
1426 XV | harangue, which was also very flowery and very gravely listened
1427 XVI | jays, the mocking-bird, the flycatcher, disappeared among the foliage
1428 XII | marked out by a fringe of foam.~“You don’t talk?” said
1429 XVIII | mysterious river. The water foamed as it fell in rapids and
1430 XX | eagles. It costs less for fodder, and is more reliable.”~“
1431 II | de la Propagation de la Foi to the Church Missionary
1432 XXVIII | astonishment in several folios; so that some day we shall
1433 XXVI | the arms of his faithful follower, Joe. The latter, uneasy
1434 I | said, “it is my route that follows me.”~The reader will not
1435 XXXVIII| Senegal, penetrated to the Fonta-Jallon, visited the Foullah and
1436 II | the sources of the Nile—fontes Nili quoerere—was regarded
1437 XXIV | heat and dust. It would be foolish to look for any thing else
1438 XLIII | on the air.~“Too far, you fools!” bawled Joe. “I think it
1439 XXXV | Tree of the Serpents.—The Foot-Tramp.—Terrible Suffering.—Mosquitoes
1440 XXXV | long, fatiguing day of sore foot-travel, his confident reliance
1441 XXVII | notice of certain large footprints and fresh tracks of some
1442 XL | swampy meadow-lands fat with forage. At last the city of Jenne,
1443 IV | vexation, and attacks by armed forces, their caravan arrived,
1444 XXXIII | However, it came up to them so forcibly at last that the doctor
1445 I | glance, pointed his right forefinger upward, and pronounced aloud
1446 II | As may be supposed, the foregoing article had an enormous
1447 XXX | people, with their high foreheads, their almost aquiline noses,
1448 V | hundred pounds from the foreign office; he is to equip a
1449 XIV | the trigger. There was no foreseeing what they might encounter.
1450 X | which exceeds that of a forge fire.~“This much established,
1451 XXVIII | night that brought them forgetfulness of their past sufferings.~
1452 VI | packs your trunk, without forgetting your socks or your linen;
1453 XXXIV | journey than not return. Joe forgot himself for our sake; we
1454 XXX | in the air like rockets, forming a regular network of fire.~“
1455 XL | CHAPTER FORTIETH.~Dr. Ferguson’s Anxieties.—
1456 XVI | surrounded them with natural fortifications, interlacing their trunks
1457 XXXV | not greatly restored and fortified by a diet of roots, the
1458 XLI | CHAPTER FORTY-FIRST.~The Approaches to Senegal.—
1459 XLIV | CHAPTER FORTY-FOURTH.~Conclusion.—The Certificate.—
1460 XXVIII | thermometer marked a hundred and forty-nine degrees in the sun, and
1461 X | this fourth tank is about forty-one cubic feet.~“On the upper
1462 XLII | CHAPTER FORTY-SECOND.~A Struggle of Generosity.—
1463 XLIII | CHAPTER FORTY-THIRD.~The Talabas.—The Pursuit.—
1464 XXVIII | tablets fifteen degrees forty-three minutes east longitude,
1465 XX | battle-field. Often, too, they even fought for these hideous spoils.~“
1466 XIX | recently rebuilt by the Fouillans, excited Ferguson’s curiosity.
1467 XXXVIII| Fonta-Jallon, visited the Foullah and Mandingo populations,
1468 IV | long be tolerated, and the Foullans threatened to besiege it.
1469 XVII | there and then, to lay the foundation of a Robinson Crusoe dynasty
1470 IV | an Anglican missionary, founded an establishment at Monbaz,
1471 XXII | Vincent de Paul was the founder, and, at twenty, he quitted
1472 II | failure of the enterprise; and fourthly, upon the probabilities
1473 XLI | Marabout of the Senegalese Fouta, Al-Hadji by name, declaring
1474 VII | of the journey, nor some fowling pieces and rifles, with
1475 XXXII | are you afraid of those fowls?”~“They are condors, and
1476 XXXV | saying, he burst through the frail wall with a jog of his powerful
1477 XIV | together in round huts, without frames, that look like haystacks.~
1478 IX | every body liked him for his frankness and good-humor. A considerable
1479 XLIII | Four Talabas fell, amid the frantic howls and imprecations of
1480 XX | the women, mingling in the fray, gathered up these bloody
1481 XXIII | Kennedy.~“About a singular freak of Nature, a curious effect
1482 XV | with their slaves and their freightage of ivory; and those of the
1483 XXXVII | he explained to him the frequency of this phenomenon upon
1484 XVIII | covered with woods; the wind freshened a little toward the east,
1485 XLIII | with Fire-arms.—The Wind freshens.—The Senegal River.—The
1486 XV | superb trees and depths of freshest shade—such is Kazeh!~There,
1487 XVI | formed in the season of freshets, or from ponds hollowed
1488 XX | which Joe spoke were heads freshly severed from the bodies,
1489 XII | a “kraal,” awaiting the freshness and cool of the evening
1490 I | Lauture, Erhardt, Ferret, Fresnel, Galinier, Galton, Geoffroy,
1491 XXV | master, and I’m afraid of Fridays!”~“Well, I hope that this
1492 XXXVII | gentlemen? You gave me a fine fright, let me tell you!”~“We shall
1493 XV | to the mouth. Their ears, frightfully distended, held dangling
1494 VIII | letters of gold: ‘Paris, 25 Frimaire; year XIII; Coronation of
1495 XII | the west marked out by a fringe of foam.~“You don’t talk?”
1496 XXXI | hippopotamus and the alligator frisk and dive where the dwellings
1497 XIV | by hunger and thirst. The frogs struck in their guttural
1498 XIX | splashing and snorting as they frolicked in the water, and lamantines,
1499 IV | March, 1854, and fled to the frontier, where he remained for thirty-three
1500 XX | to increase the number of fruit-trees. We could have gardens up
1501 I | Samuel Ferguson.—Excelsior.—Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.—
1502 XXX | then, with his roundest and fullest voice, saluted him courteously
1503 XV | in the very midst of the fun, Joe saw the doctor approaching.~
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