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1504 I | Palmerston’s abrupt demands for funds to plate the rocks of the
1505 IX | we’ll visit Jupiter. A funny place that is, too, where
1506 II | essay in the Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine Erdkunde, by
1507 VIII | 21st, at three o’clock, the furnaces began to roar; at five,
1508 VII | connected by means of pipes furnished with stopcocks. He joined
1509 VIII | skilful huntsman here from furnishing game in abundance when we
1510 XVII | of flowers, and traced a furrow that closed behind them,
1511 XI | the Nile latitudes. Mr. G. Lejean even reports that
1512 XXXV | choice. The main thing is to gain time. Should the Victoria
1513 XIX | scudding away before the gale. At length, however, the
1514 I | Erhardt, Ferret, Fresnel, Galinier, Galton, Geoffroy, Golberry,
1515 XLIX | Sankore, with its ranges of galleries resting on arcades of sufficiently
1516 XLIII | bristling beards. Meanwhile they galloped along without difficulty
1517 XX | Kennedy, I think that the gallows is quite as cruel, quite
1518 I | Ferret, Fresnel, Galinier, Galton, Geoffroy, Golberry, Hahn,
1519 XXXVIII| slave-merchant, reconnoitred the Gambia River, and returned to England
1520 XXXI | of lizards, and in their gambols they sported about among
1521 XIV | those venison-steaks have a gamy flavor that’s not to be
1522 VIII | friend Dick; you have been ganged and weighed—you and your
1523 XXXV | accompanied by endless dances by gangs of natives who circled round
1524 IX | said one of the ship-boys, gaping with wonder. “Why, your
1525 XLII | disappeared below, making huge gaps in the foliage of the sycamores.~“
1526 XXX | mounted escort, and clad in a garb of brilliant colors, preceded
1527 VI | monkeys in the Zoological Garden (who are smart enough, by-the-way!),
1528 XV | fertile and magnificent garden-spot of Africa. In its centre
1529 XX | ground.”~“A fine new style of gardening,” said Joe, “and I’ll import
1530 XXXIV | to time, a parti-colored garment cut the chaos of the scene
1531 XXXV | not a rag remaining of the garments that had covered him, the
1532 VIII | even waver. An aeronaut in Garnerin’s balloon would not have
1533 X | reservoir, since in it the two gases obtained by the decomposition
1534 XII | chanted; he then made a gash in the prisoner’s neck,
1535 XIII | what Messrs. Brioschi and Gay-Lussac did; but then the blood
1536 XXXI | deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose
1537 XXVII | arms folded on his breast, gazing with idiotic fixedness upon
1538 XXXIII | back a regular cargo of geese, wild-duck, snipe, teal,
1539 XVII | haunch of an oryx, a sort of gemsbok belonging to the most agile
1540 X | temperature, and a cylinder to generate the heat, are neither inconvenient
1541 XLII | FORTY-SECOND.~A Struggle of Generosity.—The Last Sacrifice.—The
1542 XLII | it!” insisted Joe.~“Your generous rivalry is useless, my brave
1543 I | daring conceptions of human genius!” (Tremendous cheering.)~“
1544 XXX | possessor. These corpulent gentry gesticulated and bawled
1545 II | Annales des Voyages, de la Geographie, de l’Histoire, et de l’
1546 II | Bulletins de la Societe Geographique of Geneva, which very wittily
1547 VII | CHAPTER SEVENTH.~Geometrical Details.—Calculation of
1548 IV | to the narrative of the German doctor, Ferdinand Werne,
1549 VIII | in 1804. The aeronaut, Gernerin, sent up a balloon at Paris,
1550 XIV | close together, yelling, gesticulating, and cutting all kinds of
1551 XV | they did not lose a single gesticulation; they did not forget an
1552 IV | sharp turn westward toward Ghat, guided, with difficulty,
1553 XLIII | strides, and seeming, like the giant Antaeus, to receive fresh
1554 XXXII | garnished with a comb and gills of deep violet, stood erect
1555 XV | although accustomed to gin and whiskey, could not withstand
1556 XVIII | the Nile!” shouted Joe, glad, and always ready to cheer
1557 XLI | There’s something that will gladden the hearts of a whole tribe
1558 XXXII | lost!” exclaimed Ferguson, glancing at the barometer, which
1559 XLII | to his feet. An intense glare half-blinded him and heated
1560 XV | west, which export cotton, glassware, and trinkets, to the tribes
1561 XXI | sometimes detected vague gleams of light in the distance.~
1562 XVII | say,” shouted Joe, in high glee. “Gee-up! gee-up there!”~
1563 III | recalled that of Herbert Glendinning, as Sir Walter Scott has
1564 XIX | reminded the beholder of the glens in the Highlands of Scotland,
1565 XXXV | and he allowed himself to glide with it. About two o’clock
1566 XLI | to be quite even, and it glided over a soil composed of
1567 XXXVII | The moonlight revealed glimpses of one district half in
1568 XXXVII | shot up here and there, glistening in the silvery rays. The
1569 XXV | that was all.~The doctor gloomily recognized what trifling
1570 XXI | produced, with an insupportable glow between the two pointed
1571 XXII | lower half of the balloon glowed redly in the upper night;
1572 XXXV | bites of myriads of insects —gnats, mosquitoes, ants half an
1573 XII | thick roots, chafed and gnawed by the teeth of the Indian
1574 XXVII | uttering hoarse cries, gnawing his clinched fists, and
1575 XXVIII | for those animals, when goaded by hunger or thirst, will
1576 XLII | the moment of touching the goal, one’s fears are more vivid,
1577 III | gave a leap that a wild goat would not have been ashamed
1578 XII | could distinguish sheep and goats too, confined in large cages,
1579 XXXV | exalted idea of how the gods tuck away their food upon
1580 XI | are a kind of brawling, good-for-nothing Janizaries.~But, when about
1581 XV | of the women were rather good-looking, and they laughed and chattered
1582 V | with an overwhelming run of good-luck, there MIGHT be one chance
1583 XXXVIII| said by an admirer of the goodness of Providence, who praised
1584 XVIII | them, a deep and winding gorge gave exit to a turbulent
1585 XV | bore in their girdles small gourds, coated with tallow, and
1586 I | situation—~“Excelsior!”~The gouty old admiral who had been
1587 III | above six feet; full of grace and easy movement, he yet
1588 XIV | of water had lodged. The graceful creatures, snuffing danger
1589 XV | reproduced all his airs and graces, his leaps and shakes and
1590 XV | the moon, but the latter graciously raised him to his feet.~
1591 XL | WEIGHT to our narrative! At a grain of gold per head, I could
1592 XXXVII | branches of the asclepia. The grain-mills were seen raised in the
1593 XXVII | to the horizon, while the grains of fine sand went gliding
1594 XVI | they enjoyed one of the grandest spectacles that Nature can
1595 XXXVII | lofty, naked mountains of granitic formation at the base. A
1596 XLI | their tops, and we shall grapple to some tree, for nothing
1597 XLI | daring fellow was there, grasping the lower rim of the car,
1598 XLIX | nothing, hardly even a few grasses, with some dwarf mimosas
1599 XXXI | no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman,
1600 XXVII | moaned the Scot, in a hoarse, grating voice—and then the two struggled
1601 XIII | erratic blocks of stone and gravelly bowlders. The most abrupt
1602 XXVIII | location, and it was with the gravest air imaginable that he wrote
1603 XXX | might well be called the graveyard of European travellers.”~
1604 XXI | horrible odors of the rancid grease with which they bedaub their
1605 XXXV | believe in the vanity of human greatness; and he asked himself whether,
1606 XL | insects in great numbers and greedily eat them.”~“They are the
1607 XLIV | t advise any body who is greedy for excitement to undertake
1608 XLIV | Ferguson’s arrival.~The warm greetings and felicitations of which
1609 XXXVIII| organized, in which Major Grey took part. It arrived in
1610 XIV | the scent of a setter or a greyhound.~A herd of a dozen antelopes
1611 XXIV | my dear Dick!”~“Well, as grieving over the matter won’t help
1612 XV | he had to make a horrible grimace, which his dusky friends
1613 XV | into incredible attitudes; grimacing beyond all belief, and,
1614 XXIII | scoundrels!” exclaimed Joe, grinding his teeth, in one of those
1615 XXXV | who held him, with a firm gripe, and uttered strange cries.~“
1616 XXXII | their cries, while their gristly crests, garnished with a
1617 XLIII | paces only from the river!” groaned Joe.~The three hapless aeronauts
1618 XXXIV | uttering dull and pitiful groans; cries and howls of despair
1619 XIV | the better with a glass of grog to wash it down.”~So saying,
1620 XXVIII | my statements, you have grossly affronted me; in believing
1621 XXXVII | of the Victoria! You had grounded there! So I followed the
1622 XVIII | about through the cultivated grounds, and the doctor greatly
1623 XII | clumps of green indicated the groves and thickets.~The inhabitants
1624 I | intended to mystify us,” growled an apoplectic old admiral.~“
1625 VI | was a Caleb without the growling, and a perfect pattern of
1626 XXXVII | harm, and I hope he has no grudge against me for choking him,
1627 XIII | to fall ill, though,” he grumbled; and so saying, he wrapped
1628 VI | no use in complaining or grumbling.~Among other gifts, he possessed
1629 VIII | sufficient abundance to guarantee all the guests a lifetime
1630 II | Ferguson personally, and guaranteed the intrepidity of his dauntless
1631 XV | with all the honors by the guards and favorites of the sultan;
1632 XIX | the lion; but he could not guess it, and so quietly went
1633 III | himself. It could readily be guessed, though, that some great
1634 XIII | continual squabbles with our guides and porters, and completely
1635 XLIV | PELISSIER, LOROIS, RASCAGNET, GUILLON, LEBEL, Privates.”~Here
1636 VI | Samuel even then from being guilty of such an act of folly!
1637 XVII | would bring thirty-five guineas per hundred pounds.”~“As
1638 XV | disks of wood and plates of gum copal. They were clad in
1639 XLIII | enormous leaps, like a huge gum-elastic ball, bounding and rebounding
1640 VII | with gutta percha. This gummy, resinous substance is absolutely
1641 XVII | and the blood began to gush from his wounds.~“Let us
1642 XXXVII | and moreover capricious gusts. It shifted abruptly from
1643 XIV | The frogs struck in their guttural soprano, redoubled by the
1644 VI | arisen to name a professor of gymnastics for the monkeys in the Zoological
1645 XVIII | The country was evidently habitable and inhabited. Troops of
1646 XIX | clearing remote from any habitation. The instant it touched
1647 XXXIII | collection of about fifty habitations occupied a slight depression
1648 XLIV | tiresome at the last, and if it hadn’t been for the adventures
1649 XXVII | as they were, fixed their haggard eyes upon each other with
1650 XXI | precious; but we must not haggle over it when the life of
1651 I | Galton, Geoffroy, Golberry, Hahn, Halm, Harnier, Hecquart,
1652 VI | as you like, and here’s half-a-crown to buy you the ballast.”~
1653 XLII | his feet. An intense glare half-blinded him and heated his cheek—
1654 VI | and Wellington.—He gets a Half-crown.~Dr. Ferguson had a servant
1655 VIII | clever scamp earned a few half-crowns, but we must not find fault
1656 XVI | Sultan of Kazeh?”~“An old half-dead sot,” replied the doctor, “
1657 XX | more revolting spectacle—half-devoured corpses; skeletons mouldering
1658 XIV | the bottom of which lay a half-eaten carcass.~He brought back
1659 XXII | indicated the place of a half-effaced tonsure.~“A missionary!
1660 XLIII | river, while the balloon, half-empty, and borne away by a swift
1661 XIV | and animals, that had been half-gnawed away, mouldering together
1662 VII | the currents of air as a half-inflated one must needs present.~
1663 XLIX | seems to me that I can see half-ruined ramparts,” said Kennedy.~“
1664 XXIV | east; only a few belts of half-scorched herbage still contended
1665 XLIX | is now nothing but a mere half-way house for the trade of Central
1666 XXV | their feet could be seen the half-worn stones of a spring, but
1667 XLII | under the dominion of a mere hallucination. He continued to listen,
1668 I | Geoffroy, Golberry, Hahn, Halm, Harnier, Hecquart, Heuglin,
1669 XXVIII | Undoubtedly; it is a halting-place for the caravans that frequent
1670 XV | the trunk of a tree, and hammered by the ponderous, horny
1671 XXVII | of the dead lioness, and handed up the flask full of sparkling
1672 XLI | we are even,” added he, handing to the sportsman his favorite
1673 XXII | The doctor, taking an old handkerchief, quickly prepared a little
1674 XXX | wore himself out waving handkerchiefs of every color and shape
1675 XIV | being a rifleman, Joe could handle fire-arms with no trifling
1676 XIV | again with his balloon; he handles it at his ease.”~“But suppose
1677 XV | natural son of the sultan, a handsomely-built young fellow, who, according
1678 XLIII | the network. There we can hang on in the meshes until we
1679 XX | the world!”~“I have a keen hankering to take a hand in at that
1680 V | civilized, would they be any happier?—Were folks certain that
1681 III | it is necessary for your happiness, why not pursue the ordinary
1682 XV | himself of a very copious harangue, which was also very flowery
1683 IX | seamen stimulated by Joe’s harangues.~Our dazzling narrator persuaded
1684 XL | rain’s going to pour down harder than ever; and this time
1685 XIII | travellers as have had the hardihood to venture into these regions,
1686 VI | you, sir. My master is no hare-brained person; he takes a long
1687 XII | Africa. Kennedy descried some hares and quails that asked nothing
1688 I | any mystification, however harmless.~Hence, the applause that
1689 XV | majesty’s wives, to the harmonious accords of the “upatu,”
1690 X | which enable them to move in harmony with the oscillations of
1691 I | Geoffroy, Golberry, Hahn, Halm, Harnier, Hecquart, Heuglin, Hornemann,
1692 XXXII | In the next they heard a harsh tearing noise, as of something
1693 V | letters, addressed by Dr. Hartmann to the traveller’s father,
1694 XX | the balloon, and they’d haul us through the air!”~“The
1695 XXXVII | give; so I pulled again and hauled away and there I was on
1696 XIX | swallows the tow-rope, and hauls the balloon in their stead;
1697 XVII | of fat partridges and the haunch of an oryx, a sort of gemsbok
1698 XXXVIII| the rhinoceros, made their haunts.~“It will not be long before
1699 XVII | as usual, and delicious Havanas perfumed this charming country
1700 XLIX | terraces heaped up with hay and straw gathered from
1701 XIV | without frames, that look like haystacks.~Beyond Kanyeme the soil
1702 V | some day, and in a less hazardous manner.— In another month,
1703 XII | of that River and of its Head-Stream, with the History of the
1704 III | word—open, resolute, and headstrong. He lived in the town of
1705 XI | cocoa-nut tree, and an extremely heady sort of beer called “togwa.”
1706 VIII | libations and numerous toasts. Healths were drunk, in sufficient
1707 XVI | rays beneath the masses of heaped-up cloud, adorned with a crest
1708 XXIII | in which Nature has been heaping up her wealth for centuries!
1709 XXVI | barometer.”~“May Heaven hearken to you, Samuel! for here
1710 XXVII | that instant he heard a heart-rending cry close beside him—“Water!
1711 XXXV | every thing, took one of the heartiest luncheons he ever ate in
1712 X | form, which is called the heat-tank. The latter is closed at
1713 XXIV | like those on the wild heaths of Scotland; then came the
1714 XII | coming to the aid of the heating cylinder, the tension of
1715 IX | fine, although the sea ran heavier.~On the 30th of March, twenty-seven
1716 XXIII | Joe!”~The brave fellow, heaving deep sighs, began at last
1717 X | receptacle. A Belgian, Dr. Van Hecke, by means of wings and paddles,
1718 I | Golberry, Hahn, Halm, Harnier, Hecquart, Heuglin, Hornemann, Houghton,
1719 XI | beside which the famous Heidelberg tun would have seemed but
1720 XL | will be over!” added Joe. “Heigh-ho! so much the worse. If it
1721 XV | the country, was the sole heir of the paternal goods, to
1722 XXIII | dead man whom you have just helped to bury, taught you the
1723 XVIII | We are entering our own hemisphere!”~“Ah!” said Joe, “do you
1724 XLII | doctor.~A circle of fire hemmed the Victoria in; the crackling
1725 VII | was made of very strong hempen cord, and the two valves
1726 XIX | traces of our predecessors. Henceforth we are to launch ourselves
1727 XXX | with red flowers, and the herbaceous plants of its fields of
1728 III | strikingly recalled that of Herbert Glendinning, as Sir Walter
1729 XV | relations with the people hereabouts.”~“There’s one kind of trade
1730 | hereby
1731 | herein
1732 XLIV | beside those of the persons hereinabove named, for the information
1733 XLIV | testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals
1734 I | Riley, Ritchey, Rochet d’Hericourt, Rongawi, Roscher, Ruppel,
1735 I | hour he passed with that hero on his isle of Juan Fernandez!
1736 XXII | rescue you.”~“Science has its heroes,” said the missionary.~“
1737 XXXII | seeing some trace of their heroic companion, but they were
1738 V | serious; requite with cowardly hesitation what both the English Government
1739 XXI | But this darkness?”~“It hides our preparations, and will
1740 XLII | that spread beneath him, hiding the ground from his view.
1741 XXXV | then he could quit his hiding-place and run toward the borders
1742 III | little climbing among the Highland mountains. He was cited
1743 XIX | beholder of the glens in the Highlands of Scotland, as Kennedy
1744 XXX | himself in the dust of the highway, where the doctor had to
1745 XIX | bristling palisades. The wild hill-sides and hollows frequently reminded
1746 XXVI | surface of the soil, not a hillock of sand, not a pebble, to
1747 XII | latitude. The soil is becoming hilly and portends mountains not
1748 XV | held the crowd aloof and hindered them from committing any
1749 III | nearly two years without hinting at new explorations; and
1750 V | come in—etc., etc.~These hints produced an effect exactly
1751 IV | a retinue of twenty-one hired men and twenty soldiers,
1752 XVI | preceded by a rumbling noise, hissed through the air and rattled
1753 XXXV | precipitately from the tree amid the hissings of these new and unwelcome
1754 II | de la Geographie, de l’Histoire, et de l’Archaeologie de
1755 IX | the way, by the greatest historians of all ages and nations.~
1756 XIV | antelope only, that was hit just behind the shoulder-joint,
1757 VII | the greatest satisfaction hitherto in aerostatic experiments.~
1758 XXVII | haste.~“Thanks!” he murmured hoarsely, but Joe did not hear him,
1759 III | the whole thing might be a hoax—~“Not a bit of it!” said
1760 XLI | Joe, by a vigorous effort, hoisted himself from the ground,
1761 XIV | black demon, who had been hoisting himself up by the anchor-rope.
1762 VIII | Emperor Napoleon by his Holiness, Pius VII.’ On the next
1763 XLI | stronghold was defended by Paul Holl, who, for several months,
1764 I | exist in the centre of New Holland.~Samuel Ferguson returned
1765 XXXV | the poor doomed lad was hollowing for himself; not a log of
1766 XIX | The wild hill-sides and hollows frequently reminded the
1767 XVI | golden harvests sung by Homer had flourished, her children
1768 XIV | well as the chairman of the honorable corporation of butchers
1769 XXXV | there, that does its work honorably in pointing out the direction
1770 XXV | that had grown hard and horn-like with age, and angrily flung
1771 I | Harnier, Hecquart, Heuglin, Hornemann, Houghton, Imbert, Kauffmann,
1772 XV | hammered by the ponderous, horny fists of two jet-black virtuosi.~
1773 XXVII | agitation. He was suffering horribly with thirst, and his swollen
1774 XXI | the savages, for I have a horror of those snakes.”~“The noise
1775 XXXII | exclaimed the doctor, horror-stricken.~The Victoria thus relieved
1776 VI | weighed to-day!”~“What! like horse-jockeys?”~“Yes, like jockeys. Only,
1777 XLIV | friends in the midst of most hospitable tribes, whose relations
1778 XIX | curious beasts in a wondrous hot-house, where numberless birds
1779 V | of Good Hope has placed Hottentot soldiers at their disposal;
1780 I | Hecquart, Heuglin, Hornemann, Houghton, Imbert, Kauffmann, Knoblecher,
1781 XX | in the air; and the small house-owners would like that!”~At this
1782 XLIV | anxiety of his faithful old housekeeper.~The doctor and his devoted
1783 XLIX | seen in numerous flocks hovering about the borders of the
1784 XXXV | themselves before him; they howled; they felt him; they became
1785 XV | perpetual excitement, a nameless hubbub, made up of the cries of
1786 XII | ran together from their huddle of huts and followed the
1787 XXXII | order; on the other, is huddled together the poor quarter,
1788 XVIII | mosquitoes of a light-brown hue. The country was evidently
1789 XLIX | camels and smoking their huge-bowled pipes.~By eight o’clock
1790 XXVIII | learned sage tickled Joe hugely, and made him laugh.~During
1791 XVIII | toward him with a threatening hum.~The doctor ascertained
1792 V | labored for the welfare of humanity?— When, after all, the African
1793 XV | crowd paid him their most humble respects. Like a genuine
1794 II | do” the British Isles.~A humorous reply appeared in the February
1795 XVII | finest morsels, like the hump of the bison, the paws of
1796 XVI | country.~Animals with huge humps were feeding in the luxuriant
1797 XIX | proposed to halt in this fine hunting-country, and Joe declared that the
1798 XIV | compelled them to dispense with hunting-dogs, and, no matter what Joe’
1799 V | heavy clothing, and his best hunting-gear and fire-arms.~One day,
1800 VIII | nothing to prevent our skilful huntsman here from furnishing game
1801 XXII | torrents of melted lava, and hurling masses of rock to an enormous
1802 XXX | in his ship.~In terrific hurricanes, in tropical heats, when
1803 XXVII | abundant springs. As they hurried on, they had not taken notice
1804 VIII | carronades, that had never hurt any body, to be sure, but
1805 XIII | always fall—namely, without hurting themselves.”~“Well, gentlemen,”
1806 XII | larger than insects. The huzzaing and shouting were little
1807 VI | made to ape Achilles, at Hyde-Park entrance, and was superb
1808 I | intelligence by serious studies in hydrography, physics, and mechanics,
1809 XXXI | lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it;
1810 XLIX | middle ages, such as the icebergs of the polar seas sometimes
1811 XVIII | you to make sure of the identity of this river with the one
1812 XXVII | his breast, gazing with idiotic fixedness upon some imaginary
1813 XV | origin, live in luxurious idleness.~They have, for a long period,
1814 XLII | the woods; they’ll make idols of them!”~The next thing
1815 XIX | aeronaut, Madame Blanchard. She ignited her balloon while sending
1816 XXVI | suddenly remarking the doctor’s ill-concealed depression.~Vain hope! The
1817 XIII | in any but large, quite ill-distinguishable masses; men and animals
1818 IV | degree, but had to return in ill-health to Karthoum, where he died
1819 IV | sheik, and all kinds of ill-treatment and wretchedness. But the
1820 XXXVIII| of fatigue, privations, ill-usage, the inclemencies of the
1821 XI | Zanzibar.—The English Consul.—Ill-will of the Inhabitants.—The
1822 XV | notwithstanding the sultan’s illness, the din, which was terrific
1823 XXX | which, reflecting their illumination, looked as though enveloped
1824 XXXVIII| still nearly at the full, illumining it with her radiance. The
1825 XXXVI | matter, Dick?”~“Is it an illusion? Can it be possible?”~“What
1826 XXVIII | was with the gravest air imaginable that he wrote down on his
1827 IX | an impossibility to the imaginations of the seamen stimulated
1828 XV | a moment reanimated the imbruted carcass that lay before
1829 XV | serpents, the latter better imitated, of course, than the former.
1830 XIX | only a sort of nickname. It imitates the sound of chewing.”~“
1831 XXV | They are apes,” said Joe, “imitating us.”~“It means,” said the
1832 XV | of blacks, naturally as imitative as monkeys, at once reproduced
1833 V | of being swung aloft at immeasurable heights.~We must add that,
1834 XIX | of the Bahr-el-Abiad, are immersed in a lake as large as a
1835 XLI | obstacles, which threatened such imminent peril, seemed to approach
1836 XXII | and the tribe resolved to immolate him. His sufferings had
1837 XXIV | time, the balloon remained immovable in the leaden atmosphere.~
1838 XXXIII | companion. Kennedy first imparted his conjectures to the doctor.~“
1839 XLIX | was quite flat, offered no impediment to their progress. The doctor’
1840 XVI | under the influence of the impending storm: the thickened air
1841 VIII | This, of course, rendered imperative fresh toasts to “Her most
1842 XXII | was executed. An almost imperceptible breath of air impelled the
1843 XXXII | latter, in spite of his imperturbability, grew pale. Then ensued
1844 VIII | paces. Along with these implements, he had two of Colt’s six-shooters,
1845 XLII | doctor no longer counted implicitly on his balloon; the time
1846 XXI | will not return.”~“Dick, I implore you, heed what I say. I
1847 XX | gardening,” said Joe, “and I’ll import the idea to England. It
1848 III | in the normal conditions imposed upon other explorers. But,
1849 XIV | of the jackals, while the imposing bass of the African lion
1850 XV | or these strangers were imposters, designing scamps, false
1851 XIII | the adjacent hills were impotently menacing the Victoria with
1852 XXX | mountains. Its position was impregnable, a narrow road running between
1853 XXXV | when a puff of air strongly impregnated with a musky odor reached
1854 XXI | illusions that sometimes impress the eye in the midst of
1855 XXXIII | distinctly communicate this impression. However, it came up to
1856 XXVI | tracing him by the clear imprint of his feet in the sand,
1857 XXXIII | aeronauts approached them even imprudently, scrutinizing the thickets,
1858 VII | the height of distant and inaccessible objects.~The Greenwich Observatory
1859 XXVI | situation, for their forced inactivity gave them periods of leisure
1860 XXVII | it was borne along with incalculable rapidity away above this
1861 XI | Thereupon the sorceries and incantations commenced; the “rain-makers,”
1862 XXX | Court. —The Attack.—The Incendiary Pigeons.~On the next day,
1863 XV | means of black-and-blue incisions they had tattooed their
1864 XVI | at once a violent, rapid, incisive flash of lightning pierced
1865 XXXVIII| privations, ill-usage, the inclemencies of the weather, and the
1866 VII | of different sizes, and inclosed the smaller in the larger
1867 XXXI | not seem to be otherwise incommoded by Kennedy’s conical bullet.~“
1868 VI | concerned, and he did well. Incomparable, whole-souled Joe! a servant
1869 VII | without incurring their inconveniences. He constructed two of different
1870 XLII | to see it,” said Kennedy, incredulously.~“We must get rid of the
1871 VII | of two balloons, without incurring their inconveniences. He
1872 XIX | traveller Lejean, to whom we are indebted for the best work on the
1873 XXII | where, between fields of Indian-corn and sugar-cane, were seen
1874 XX | said the doctor; “the Indians merely carry off the scalp,
1875 I | with that solidity which indicates a great pedestrian.~A calm
1876 XIX | covering of the balloon gave indications of bursting, but in the
1877 XLIX | neglect; it betrayed that indifference which seems epidemic to
1878 XXI | exclaimed Joe, trembling with indignation. “Suppose they should kill
1879 XXX | its fields of cotton and indigo trees. The river Shari,
1880 XI | Dr. Ferguson, murmuring indistinguishable words. In other respects,
1881 XXIV | his, both of them, he had induced to come with him almost
1882 I | subjects— no, not if the inducement held out had been promotion
1883 XXXVI | faithful fellow had to be indulged.~After he had swallowed
1884 XXIV | ascended, and, after several ineffectual attempts, fell into a current
1885 XXIV | worthless to-day, but of inestimable value to-morrow.~The appearance
1886 XVI | as a source of help, not inexhaustible indeed, but not yet exhausted.
1887 III | strangest-looking machinery, inexplicable to everybody but himself.
1888 XVIII | irrefutable, convincing, and infallible proof,” replied Ferguson, “
1889 XXIII | doctor, despairingly.~“The infamous scoundrels!” exclaimed Joe,
1890 XXXVIII| the gentle slumbers of an infant would not have been disturbed
1891 XI | in vain to overcome this infectious gloominess. He utterly failed.~
1892 I | he considered in no wise inferior to the rest. How many a
1893 XL | the barbarous tribes that infest the coasts of Guinea? How
1894 XLI | tribes to war against the infidels—that is to say, against
1895 IX | between the two cases. Air is infinitely less dense than water, in
1896 XXVI | sensation of terror. In this inflamed atmosphere the heat appeared
1897 X | a larger distention, and inflates the balloon more. The latter,
1898 IV | months, under vexations inflicted upon him by the sheik, and
1899 XXXIII | Lari and the village of Ingemini, both visited by Major Denham.
1900 VII | This apparatus had been so ingeniously combined that it did not
1901 Note | considered extravagant; while the ingenuity and invention of the author
1902 XII | never would reveal to me the ingredients.”~“Well, master, since we
1903 XVIII | and sugar-cane. The tribes inhabiting the region seemed excited
1904 XVI | stifling!” said the Scot, inhaling, with all the power of his
1905 XVIII | examined those precious initials, the exact form and size
1906 XXI | the doctor’s good-night injunction.~“Is there any thing new
1907 XXXIII | nor the spiral had been injured.~The ascensional force of
1908 XI | the balloon an irreparable injury, so that the trip would
1909 XXXVII | the back of one of those innocent animals and away we went
1910 XXXV | reputation of being quite inoffensive.~But had not Joe escaped
1911 XIX | Thus, then,” added Kennedy, inquiringly, “our discoveries agree
1912 III | sportsman, “your project is insane! it is impossible! it has
1913 III | victim after victim have been inscribed on the lists of African
1914 VIII | evening. It bore the following inscription, in letters of gold: ‘Paris,
1915 I | and immediately moved the insertion of Dr. Ferguson’s speech
1916 III | the aged Elspeth, tried to insinuate that the whole thing might
1917 VIII | that might be; but a man?” insinuated Kennedy.~“Yes, a man, too!—
1918 V | Pronouns in the Plural.—Dick’s Insinuations. —A Promenade over the Map
1919 XXIV | moreover, quite calculated to inspire alarm: the desert was gradually
1920 XIV | inhospitable region always inspires a degree of fear.~The water
1921 I | completely electrified by these inspiring words.~“Huzza for the intrepid
1922 XXXVIII| has witnessed some noble instances of self-sacrifice which,
1923 XXV | and all his gestures were instantaneously and exactly repeated.~“It
1924 I | even the Royal Polytechnic Institute, where his friend the statistician
1925 XXII | whom religion alone can instruct and civilize.”~Dr. Ferguson,
1926 XXII | still he went on teaching, instructing, and praying. The tribe
1927 I | who was a man of thorough instruction, omitted no opportunity
1928 IX | doctor went on with his instructive discourses.~One day the
1929 II | to the Church Missionary Intelligencer, that had not something
1930 VI | orders, which were always intelligently executed. In fine, he was
1931 XXXV | little strength from the intensity of his repugnance, he rushed
1932 XX | The combatants were so intent upon their murderous work
1933 XI | consul, informed of their intentions, conferred with Dr. Ferguson
1934 XIX | luxuriant flora of these inter-tropical regions.~“The country is
1935 XXXI | many green islands that intercept the current of the stream.~
1936 XII | two kept up a continual interchange of admiring interjections
1937 XXI | exclaimed Kennedy. “Our interference will have served no other
1938 XII | interchange of admiring interjections and exclamations.~“Out upon
1939 XVI | natural fortifications, interlacing their trunks with the coral-shaped
1940 XXXIII | centre of Africa, and the interminable deserts of that region.~“
1941 XXI | assistance, a providential interposition. We shall not disappoint
1942 XIX | brought from this region; interrogated them concerning it, and,
1943 I | address that was frequently interrupted by applause.~This rare specimen
1944 III | on, without heeding the interruption; “I have had so much to
1945 II | civilization. THEIR POINT OF INTERSECTION, which no traveller has
1946 XXIII | hither and thither, and, interspersed with whitish marl, all indicated
1947 I | discovery, he spent the intervening time, until 1853, in accompanying
1948 XX | in Battle.—A Massacre.—An Intervention from above.~The wind had
1949 XXXVII | constructed of long reeds interwoven with branches of the asclepia.
1950 XXX | time.~To these means of intimidation, which were presently deemed
1951 XIX | their way. There are those intractable tribes, of whom Petherick,
1952 XI | the pipes that served to introduce the hydrogen gas.~The whole
1953 XXXI | right again, Samuel! Let us intrust to Providence the care of
1954 XXIV | still contended against the invasion of the sand, and the huge
1955 XVI | its own profit. By dint of inventing machinery, men will end
1956 II | rejecting them.~Numerous inventors of mechanism applicable
1957 XLI | farther to the northward, and invested the fortification of Medina,
1958 I | keen and active mind, an investigating intelligence, and a remarkable
1959 XLII | and gently rocked the car, inviting the hunter to taste the
1960 XI | control over the clouds, invoked the storms and the “stone-showers,”
1961 XIII | dilation of the hydrogen involved no danger, and only three-fourths
1962 III | them? Every thing in life involves danger; it may even be dangerous
1963 XV | for the balloon is not iron-clad, and is, therefore, not
1964 XI | was effected by means of iron-filings and sulphuric acid placed
1965 XVIII | We shall have certain, irrefutable, convincing, and infallible
1966 XX | wind had become violent and irregular; the balloon was running
1967 XXXVI | efforts they make, and the irregularity of their line, I should
1968 XI | blow to do the balloon an irreparable injury, so that the trip
1969 XXIV | in his mind, and, by an irresistible association of ideas, the
1970 XL | the swarm would then pass irresistibly onward. Fortunately, in
1971 V | and to look upon him as irrevocably destined to become his aerial
1972 XXXII | toward the Victoria, more irritated than frightened by her presence.~“
1973 I | cannibal maws of the South Sea Islanders. But still their hearts
1974 I | passed with that hero on his isle of Juan Fernandez! Often
1975 II | proposed to “do” the British Isles.~A humorous reply appeared
1976 XXVII | sight of an oasis, a sort of islet studded with green trees,
1977 XVII | said Kennedy, whose rifle itched in his grasp.~“He’s taking
1978 XII | journey; for it contained the itinerary of Burton and Speke to the
1979 XV | of square edifice called ititenya, and situated on the slope
1980 XXVII | Joe, taking off his linen jacket, hung it on the end of the
1981 XIII | would do well to double its jagged pinnacles at a certain height.
1982 XI | brawling, good-for-nothing Janizaries.~But, when about to land
1983 XIII | speed. They observed no jar, and had scarcely any sense
1984 XXXIV | water-tanks jostled and jarred with tremendous din. Although
1985 XXXV | the sound of those huge jaws ready to snap him up forever.
1986 XVI | crane, the red and blue jays, the mocking-bird, the flycatcher,
1987 III | the air! There, now, he’s jealous of the eagles, next! No!
1988 IV | Richardson, Barth, and Overweg, jealously anxious to push their investigations
1989 XV | huge rattan, wielded by the jemadar or leader of the caravans,
1990 XXXVII | took leave to make another jerk, and, by hook or by crook,
1991 XV | and the latter, violently jerked, at that moment, by the
1992 VIII | worthy fellow soon became the jester and merry-andrew of the
1993 III | The moment you give up jesting about it, we can discuss
1994 XV | ponderous, horny fists of two jet-black virtuosi.~Most of the women
1995 XVIII | make the tour of it in a jiffy,” added Kennedy, “and, excepting
1996 XV | went, in one of the wildest jigs that ever was seen, twisting,
1997 VI | horse-jockeys?”~“Yes, like jockeys. Only, never fear, you won’
1998 XXXV | through the frail wall with a jog of his powerful shoulder,
1999 XXII | he was also desirous of joining a life of danger, by entering
2000 XII | black then severed all his joints while the war-song of his
2001 XII | additionally seasoned by the jokes and repartees of the guests.
2002 XVI | aeronauts got some very alarming jolts, indeed, as their machine
2003 XIV | went to work to prepare a jorum of that fragrant beverage,
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