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2004 XXII | seemed as though unwilling to jostle its precious burden.~Toward
2005 XXXIV | instant; and the water-tanks jostled and jarred with tremendous
2006 XXXI | flavor.~While the doctor was jotting down the result of this
2007 I | to look about him on his journeyings, and turned to such good
2008 XIII | the yellow fever.”~“Ah! by Jove, this balloon is a paradise!”
2009 XVII | herbage, and speed away with joyous cries. The anchors plunged
2010 XXIII | on which he had known no joys; in the midst of that night
2011 I | that hero on his isle of Juan Fernandez! Often he criticised
2012 XIX | different narratives, made up a jumble of notions, and deduced
2013 XXXVIII| two feet broad.~“Easy to jump over,” said Joe.~“How’s
2014 XIX | and therefore at those junctures we should never omit the
2015 XVI | impenetrable hedges of thorny jungle, separated the clearings
2016 XXVII | butt of his rifle, which jutted above the rim of the car.~“
2017 XXXIII | where a mass of shade or jutting rock could have afforded
2018 XLI | Senegal, and reappeared in the Kaarta, continuing their rapine
2019 XVIII | of the great river.~From Kafuro, the main district of the
2020 XXXVII | This was the country of the Kailouas, who veil their faces with
2021 XII | marked upon his chart as Kaole. Its entire population had
2022 XIV | masses, like the rocks of Karnak, studded the soil like so
2023 I | Hornemann, Houghton, Imbert, Kauffmann, Knoblecher, Krapf, Kummer,
2024 XXXV | although the adventure of Kazah did come back rather vividly
2025 XLII | more vivid, one’s emotions keener. The point of arrival seems
2026 XIX | with these reflections, the keenest reminiscences of home and
2027 XLII | which solitude makes more keenly felt, and during which vague
2028 XXV | I fear so; the cloud keeps at a great height.”~“Well,
2029 V | reconnoitred the mountains of Kenaia and Kilimandjaro, and is
2030 XIX | odors of the pendanus, the “kenda” of the Arabs, perfumed
2031 XXI | and ere long Joe seized Kenedy’s hand as he heard a sort
2032 IV | mountains of Kilimandjaro and Kenia, which Messrs. de Heuglin
2033 VI | in common with Moestlin, Kepler’s professor, the rare faculty
2034 XV | of the bottom of a copper kettle, and to the uproar of the “
2035 II | OEdipus is to give us the key to that enigma which the
2036 VI | who has charge of your keys and your secrets, and takes
2037 XXXVIII| intelligence the voice of the khabir, or guide of the caravan.
2038 XIV | in the world,” he said, kicking aside some fragments of
2039 XV | and to the uproar of the “kilindo,” a drum five feet high,
2040 XV | and carried a sort of “kilt” woven from the fibres of
2041 I | little success.~His fancy kindled early at the recitals he
2042 XXXIV | shaking hands!”~“Poor Joe! kindly and excellent disposition!
2043 XXIII | not understand.~“Do me the kindness to throw out some of that
2044 XIII | onward to flow into the Kingani, in the midst of gigantic
2045 XLIX | birds—pelicans, wild-duck, kingfishers, and the rest—were seen
2046 XXVIII | had conveyed his portable kitchen to the oasis, and proceeded
2047 IV | the Mandara, Barghimi, and Klanem countries, and reached his
2048 XXIII | accord, the three friends knelt together in silent prayer.~“
2049 XII | stopped to sharpen his knife, and fairly tore away the
2050 III | could he split a bullet on a knife-blade, but he could divide it
2051 XVII | could it yet be cut by the knives of our aeronauts, and the
2052 XIV | syenite of a fine polish, and knobbed with huge bowlders and angular
2053 I | Houghton, Imbert, Kauffmann, Knoblecher, Krapf, Kummer, Lafargue,
2054 XII | a caravan resting in a “kraal,” awaiting the freshness
2055 XII | resume its route. These kraals are wide patches of cleared
2056 I | Kauffmann, Knoblecher, Krapf, Kummer, Lafargue, Laing, Lafaille,
2057 V | use?—Would one have really labored for the welfare of humanity?—
2058 XLI | from rising above them. She lacked an elevation of more than
2059 XLIX | files of camels and asses laden with merchandise from Jenne
2060 XV | with them.~“Worship me, ladies! worship me!” he said to
2061 I | Kummer, Lafargue, Laing, Lafaille, Lambert, Lamiral, Lampriere,
2062 I | Knoblecher, Krapf, Kummer, Lafargue, Laing, Lafaille, Lambert,
2063 XXXV | the thorns with which the lake-reeds, the acacias, the mimosas,
2064 XIX | frolicked in the water, and lamantines, twelve feet long, with
2065 I | Laing, Lafaille, Lambert, Lamiral, Lampriere, John Lander,
2066 I | Lafaille, Lambert, Lamiral, Lampriere, John Lander, Richard Lander,
2067 X | strong as that of the large lamps used for lighting streets.
2068 XXXV | A poor country for the land-owners!” said Joe, once more vigorously
2069 XIX | there to manure all the lands in the United Kingdom.~At
2070 XXXI | midst of rich and verdant landscapes that our travellers passed
2071 IV | Timbuctoo, where he had to languish, during eight long months,
2072 XIII | fear, my boy!—I am securely lashed. I’ll spend the time getting
2073 XIII | he awoke, complained of lassitude and feverish chills. The
2074 XXII | bed, where a prostration, lasting for several hours, held
2075 XIX | through it under the name of Latif-Effendi. The tribes living near
2076 III | not understand a word of Latin.~But he made up his mind
2077 XII | maps, he found that his latitudinal route had been two degrees,
2078 VIII | dancing and breaking out in laughable remarks. The worthy fellow
2079 XLIV | them with open arms, and lavished upon them all the resources
2080 XVII | height, looked like a shaven lawn, but the growth of which,
2081 I | he had simply obeyed the laws of his nature, and we have
2082 IX | long—a good thing for the lazy fellows—and the years, would
2083 XLIX | gets fat and heavy. It’s a lazybones trip, this of ours, master,
2084 XXIV | remained immovable in the leaden atmosphere.~The doctor might
2085 Note | journeying “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas.”~
2086 XLIX | men sheltered under their leather tents, while their women
2087 XXV | with him some pieces of a leathern bottle that had grown hard
2088 XI | last the moment of final leave-taking arrived. The captain and
2089 XLIV | LOROIS, RASCAGNET, GUILLON, LEBEL, Privates.”~Here ended the
2090 VIII | held regular sittings, with lectures on geographical science,
2091 IX | his descriptive course of lecturing in the officers’ mess, Joe
2092 I | Lander, Richard Lander, Lefebvre, Lejean, Levaillant, Livingstone,
2093 XVIII | the Moon. So, the ancient legend which made these mountains
2094 XLIX | have fancied them to be the legendary ruins of some vast city
2095 XXX | judge what an account their legends will give of us some day.”~“
2096 XV | exclusion of the old man’s legitimate children. He prostrated
2097 XXX | the expedition sent from Leipsic, so that we shall soon be
2098 III | He lived in the town of Leith, which is near Edinburgh,
2099 XI | the imaum’s soldiers will lend us a hand, if we need it.
2100 I | intelligent, rather than bold, lent a peculiar charm to his
2101 XXIV | flint, with here and there a lentisk tree and brambles. In the
2102 XLIX | strike it between Sierra Leone and Portendick. There is
2103 XXXV | reflection. He feared greatly lest white flesh like his might
2104 I | Lander, Lefebvre, Lejean, Levaillant, Livingstone, MacCarthy,
2105 I | Bruces, the Caillies, the Levaillants, and to some extent, I verily
2106 XLIII | difficulty over the low levels and gentle declivities that
2107 VIII | was signalized by copious libations and numerous toasts. Healths
2108 XLIX | the sixteenth century, a library of sixteen hundred manuscripts,
2109 IX | which is its strength, its life-blood, its soul, if I may use
2110 XIV | up by the anchor-rope. A lifeless body fell from bough to
2111 VIII | guarantee all the guests a lifetime of centuries. Sir Francis
2112 XLII | sealed by means of a strong ligature.~The Victoria, relieved
2113 XVIII | myriads of mosquitoes of a light-brown hue. The country was evidently
2114 X | the large lamps used for lighting streets. On an average,
2115 IX | force, and almost impossible lightness of machinery. And, even
2116 VI | orders your dinner; who likes what you like; who packs
2117 XXVI | desperate in contemplating the limitless calm, and could see no reason
2118 XXVI | reign, up to the extreme limits of the breathing atmosphere.~
2119 XXVII | pond, full of clear and limpid water; and, more than once,
2120 XLIX | the last learned man still lingering in the place had hardly
2121 XXII | quickly prepared a little lint, which he spread over the
2122 XV | arrived. He noticed, at the lintels of the door, some rabbits’
2123 III | have been inscribed on the lists of African martyrdom! Because,
2124 XXXI | waters with the agility of lizards, and in their gambols they
2125 XLIII | And so saying, Kennedy loaded the pet piece with the greatest
2126 XIII | covered with a black, rich loam, on which there is a vigorous
2127 XXXV | precipitately; but judge of the loathing he felt when he saw what
2128 XXVIII | had to give him his exact location, and it was with the gravest
2129 XLIX | would do for the borders of Loch Lomond, and tourists would
2130 VIII | the secrets she has kept locked up in her bosom for six
2131 I | traversed the world like the locomotive, which does not direct itself,
2132 XXX | forests of acacias, its locust-trees covered with red flowers,
2133 VIII | would find no difficulty in lodging a bullet in the eye of a
2134 XX | Why, are there still loftier trees in existence?”~“Undoubtedly;
2135 XXXV | hollowing for himself; not a log of wood or a branch to buoy
2136 XXIV | carried beyond the bounds of logic and of reason. After having
2137 VI | sight every thing was easy, logical, natural, and, consequently,
2138 XLIX | for the borders of Loch Lomond, and tourists would rush
2139 XIII | perpendicularly upon those lonely summits. The doctor took
2140 XIII | the northernmost being the longest.~The Victoria soon descended
2141 XV | known all their wants and longings.~The sorcerer, in his turn,
2142 XIII | are separated by immense longitudinal plains. These elevated summits
2143 XXIV | attitude of a strong-minded looker-on, and turned the affair off
2144 IX | London, the Table Mountain loomed up on the horizon. Cape
2145 XLIII | becoming flaccid, and floated loosely in the air, and the folds
2146 XIV | Joe then found it easy to loosen the anchor and leaped lightly
2147 I | been promotion to the first lordship in the admiralty!~It may
2148 XLIV | FLIPPEAU, MAYOR, PELISSIER, LOROIS, RASCAGNET, GUILLON, LEBEL,
2149 XIX | rise. Poesy, undoubtedly, loses something thereby. People
2150 XLIX | inhabitants, carelessly lounging at full length in flowing
2151 XV | in this land so greatly loved by the god of day.~The doctor
2152 XLIX | long, an amphitheatre of low-built houses was discovered at
2153 XXXII | became less rapid, but the luckless aeronauts were still falling,
2154 XXX | request, and can be sold at lucrative rates.~At the sight of the
2155 XXXVII | During the night the wind lulled as though reposing after
2156 XI | the moon. Now, these two luminaries are objects of veneration
2157 XVI | things, and Joe examined the luminary of night from an entirely
2158 XII | his bearings, by means of lunar observations, and consulted
2159 III | Heaven!” he exclaimed, “the lunatic! the madman! Cross Africa
2160 XLII | and the trio partook of a luncheon of pemmican and cold punch,
2161 XXXV | took one of the heartiest luncheons he ever ate in his life,
2162 X | obstacles. The real danger lurks below, and not above.~“Besides,
2163 XVIII | Makado tribe, were howling lustily, and one of them waved his
2164 XV | pure Arabic origin, live in luxurious idleness.~They have, for
2165 XXIII | but stretched himself out luxuriously on his heap of quartz.~“
2166 I | Levaillant, Livingstone, MacCarthy, Maggiar, Maizan, Malzac,
2167 VIII | he had, in company with Mackenzie, ascended the river Rovoonia.
2168 XXVII | mouths, drinking more like maddened beasts than men.~“Take care,
2169 XXVII | on it!” he yelled, in his madness, “it’s nothing but salt
2170 XXXI | passed over the district of Maffatay, and about nine o’clock
2171 I | Livingstone, MacCarthy, Maggiar, Maizan, Malzac, Moffat,
2172 XV | noise stopped as though by magic. The balloon had just come
2173 XXIV | tranquil night and its starry magnificence succeeded the unchanging
2174 VI | being only of the ninth magnitude. He presumed none the more
2175 III | spoke.~When his confidential maid-of-all-work, the aged Elspeth, tried
2176 XXVIII | will, at least, no longer maintain that it is impossible.’”~“
2177 XXXVI | Meanwhile, Joe had still maintained the distance between himself
2178 XVIII | who were members of the Makado tribe, were howling lustily,
2179 XIX | Those are the cataracts of Makedo, in the third degree of
2180 XXVI | and gave him that kind of malady called the “desert-sickness.”
2181 XVI | undergrowth.~Ere long, the Malagazeri, the chief tributary of
2182 XII | fact, there is a perpetual malaria reigning throughout the
2183 I | exclaimed another voice, with a malicious twang.~“Why, then, we’d
2184 I | Travellers’ Club, in Pall Mall. A superb entertainment
2185 IV | second parallel— nor the Maltese trader, Andrea Debono, who
2186 XXII | object of every species of maltreatment. But still he went on teaching,
2187 I | MacCarthy, Maggiar, Maizan, Malzac, Moffat, Mollien, Monteiro,
2188 XXXI | call it, Joe, is really a mammiferous animal of the pachydermal
2189 IX | d be toddling after your mammy yet, and that old chap yonder,
2190 XIX | These tribes are considered man-eaters.”~“Is that really the case?”~“
2191 XIX | for barking, and even for man-eating!”~“But one thing that has
2192 XXXVI | is a pursuit—a hunt—but a man-hunt! That is not their chief
2193 XVIII | foaming river.~While busy managing the balloon, Dr. Ferguson
2194 XXXIII | rhinoceros, the lamantine (or manatee), and the hippopotamus,
2195 XXXVIII| visited the Foullah and Mandingo populations, and returned
2196 V | language and the various Mandingoe idioms, and, thanks to his
2197 II | knowing that he carried such a mane. On his part, he willingly
2198 XV | rabbits’ tails and zebras’ manes, suspended as talismans.
2199 XXXV | striking out straight ahead and manfully.~In about an hour and a
2200 XIX | Joe alone continued to manifest the same careless philosophy,
2201 XXII | even in its most terrible manifestations!”~This overflow of blazing
2202 XVIII | excited and hostile; they manifested more anger than adoration,
2203 XXXV | conducted to the shore without manifesting any alarm.~“Evidently,”
2204 XLII | time had gone by when he manoevred it boldly because he felt
2205 III | you have some idea of the manual exercise that Dick went
2206 VIII | apparatus to be employed in manufacturing the gas, including some
2207 XIX | of the deposit there to manure all the lands in the United
2208 XLIX | library of sixteen hundred manuscripts, is now nothing but a mere
2209 XXXVII | and the second that of Maradi; and you may remember that,
2210 I | patriotism:~“England has always marched at the head of nations” (
2211 XII | mango-trees protected its margin, and the ebb-tide disclosed
2212 I | of daring enterprise and maritime adventure, and he followed
2213 XV | wide, open spaces for the markets; fields of cannabis and
2214 VIII | Edinburgh. With such a weapon a marksman would find no difficulty
2215 XXIII | interspersed with whitish marl, all indicated the most
2216 XXXV | a sight that chilled the marrow in his bones. The branches
2217 IX | a jovial reception, and Mars, where the military get
2218 XL | The country became more marshy toward evening; the forests
2219 XIII | would send a patient at Martinique to the Pitons, a lofty mountain
2220 III | on the lists of African martyrdom! Because, to contend successfully
2221 XXIII | corpse.~The body of the martyred missionary was then solemnly
2222 III | few Names from the African Martyrology.—The Advantages of a Balloon.—
2223 XXII | missionary.~“But religion its martyrs!” rejoined the Scot.~“Are
2224 I | s constitution continued marvellously sound. He felt at ease in
2225 IV | in the east, the town of Masena, situated at seventeen degrees
2226 III | to Roscher, from Hamburg, massacred in the beginning of 1860,
2227 XIX | region that was the scene of massacres and burnings, and where
2228 XLI | hut in their pillaging, massacring career. He advanced in person
2229 XIX | seaman on lookout at the mast-head, he was ready to shout aloud:~“
2230 XIII | suffering, and the fever was mastering his vigorous constitution.~“
2231 XI | the soil is studded.~Two masts, eighty feet in height,
2232 VI | CHAPTER SIXTH.~A Servant—match him!—He can see the Satellites
2233 XXXV | save two others. That’s mathematics!”~Satisfied on this point,
2234 XII | maize, and barley, at full maturity, and here and there immense
2235 I | nay, even the cannibal maws of the South Sea Islanders.
2236 XXXVIII| the names of Dhiouleba, Mayo, Egghirreou, Quorra, and
2237 XLIV | DUFAYS, Sergeant,~“FLIPPEAU, MAYOR, PELISSIER, LOROIS, RASCAGNET,
2238 XIV | recognized the fruit of the “mbenbu”-tree which grows in profusion,
2239 I | in accompanying Captain McClure on the expedition that went
2240 XIV | vigor at some distance from Mdaburu. The wind fell with the
2241 XVII | he soliloquized; “your meals when you please; a swinging
2242 I | hydrography, physics, and mechanics, along with a slight tincture
2243 XX | vehemently; “no, let us not meddle with what don’t concern
2244 IV | the head of the Egyptian medical service, who, in a small
2245 XVIII | rushing on, to mingle with the Mediterranean! It is the Nile!”~“It is
2246 XXXVIII| country under the name of mehari.~Such were the details given
2247 IV | 1840, under the auspices of Mehemet Ali, stopped at Gondokoro,
2248 XXXV | pith of plants, such as the Mele, or the fruit of the doum
2249 XI | which were destitute of all melody, but were sung in excellent
2250 X | of platinum, so as not to melt by the action of the cylinder
2251 XXIV | rising ground gradually melting to the dead level, and the
2252 I | although he could not claim membership in either of the Royal Geographical
2253 XIX | quietly gliding. In that memorable day, the 23d of April, they
2254 XLIII | their weapons. Anger and menace could be read upon their
2255 XIII | adjacent hills were impotently menacing the Victoria with their
2256 XXVI | began to feel symptoms of mental disorder. Their eyes swelled
2257 XXIII | discovery!” said the doctor, mentally.~In the mean while, Kennedy
2258 XIII | emanations, which Captain Burton mentions, could be distinctly smelt.~“
2259 XLIX | camels and asses laden with merchandise from Jenne were winding
2260 IV | under the name of Yacoub the merchant, trading in gums and ivory,
2261 III | into the Daily Telegraph.~“Merciful Heaven!” he exclaimed, “
2262 XXVII | cloudless sky, the same merciless drought.~“Must we, then,
2263 XXXI | the north the two elements merged into one and the same horizon.~
2264 XVIII | measuring the terrestrial meridian.”~“Be easy on that score,
2265 XXVI | augmented it, and richly merited the name of “tiger’s milk”
2266 XV | they laughed and chattered merrily as they smoked their tobacco
2267 VIII | soon became the jester and merry-andrew of the boatswain’s mess,
2268 XIX | gifted French author— M. Mery—in a romance, it is true.
2269 VIII | science, in the officers’ mess-room. These young men felt an
2270 VIII | and Dick blushed again.~A message from the Queen arrived while
2271 XIX | Victoria sped past like a meteor. That evening the balloon
2272 XXIII | What! a philosopher of your mettle—”~“Ah, master, no philosophy
2273 X | balloon. A French aeronaut, M. Meunier, tried to accomplish this
2274 XVI | undulating and fertile plains of Mfuto were passing swiftly beneath
2275 XII | rising above the range of the miasma that exhales from this damp
2276 XXXVII | out of the reach of the mice and the huge ants of that
2277 XXXII | Precautions.—An Attack in Mid-air.—The Balloon Covering torn.—
2278 III | at London, and this the mid-season of the winter shooting?”~“
2279 VIII | Kennedy,” said a young midshipman, with envious eyes, “what
2280 XII | yours, sir,” said Joe. “It’s mighty easy to manage it; you turn
2281 XVII | that these animals have migrated to the equator, where they
2282 XVI | of events: consider the migrations of races, and you will arrive
2283 VI | remarkable for a sort of mild philosophy, a charming turn
2284 I | as he did, to the church militant and not to the church polemical.
2285 IX | reception, and Mars, where the military get the best of the sidewalk
2286 XLIX | the domestic toil outside, milking their camels and smoking
2287 XLIX | the polar seas sometimes mimic them in nights of gloom.~“
2288 XXXVII | pinnacles of mosques and minarets shot up here and there,
2289 XXIII | our car with the precious mineral, and what remains at the
2290 XVIII | question, rushing on, to mingle with the Mediterranean!
2291 XXX | he must have been a prime minister—at least, if the disturbance
2292 I | than the dies of the Royal Mint itself. So a subscription
2293 XXI | some moments they listened minutely and motionlessly among the
2294 XXXV | my worshippers here to a miracle when I go sailing up into
2295 XXIII | his spirit, as though in a miraculous assumption, he seemed already
2296 XXVII | that Providence who had so miraculously saved them.~
2297 XXV | merely the effect of the MIRAGE,” said the doctor, “and
2298 XII | respectful distance from yon miscreants. What must they think as
2299 XX | ground.~Upon this sudden mishap of their leader, his warriors
2300 | miss
2301 II | the Journal of Evangelical Missions to the Revue Algerienne
2302 XXXV | and he fell by a sudden misstep into a thick, clinging mire.
2303 XXIV | Vicinity of the Desert.—The Mistake in the Water-Supply.—The
2304 IX | oracle, and he made no more mistakes than the next one.~So, while
2305 XXXV | situation, there was no mistaking the agitation of which he
2306 V | Samuel made an intolerable misuse of the first person plural:~“‘
2307 II | But Herr Petermann, in his Mittheilungen, published at Gotha, reduced
2308 XIX | whom Petherick, Arnaud, Miuni, and the young traveller
2309 XII | the secret. It is just to mix equal quantities of Mocha,
2310 XV | made up of the cries of mixed-breed porters and carriers, the
2311 XLII | First, they took out the mixing reservoir, then the one
2312 XXI | sufficient quantity of gas in the mixing-tank to feed the cylinder, if
2313 XXVII | friend.~“Let go! hands off!” moaned the Scot, in a hoarse, grating
2314 XXXIV | its vivid hues, and the moaning and shrieking sounded over
2315 XII | mix equal quantities of Mocha, of Bourbon coffee, and
2316 XVI | the red and blue jays, the mocking-bird, the flycatcher, disappeared
2317 XXXIV | wind shows some symptoms of moderating; the sand-dust is less dense;
2318 III | the door of the doctor’s modest dwelling, in Soho Square,
2319 V | his balloon, with certain modifications; in regard to which he observed
2320 VI | enjoyed, in common with Moestlin, Kepler’s professor, the
2321 I | Maizan, Malzac, Moffat, Mollien, Monteiro, Morrison, Mungo
2322 XX | the balloon, there was a momentary pause; but their yells redoubled,
2323 XXVII | which had again lost its momentum, was floating in sight of
2324 XVII | are governed by absolute monarchs, whose control is an unlimited
2325 III | has depicted it in “The Monastery”; his stature was above
2326 XXXVI | climbing with the agility of a monkey, he sprang up to his companions,
2327 II | contemplate so much glory monopolized by England. It therefore
2328 XXXVIII| eighty miles of a long and monotonous day’s journey.~During the
2329 XIX | redoubled vigilance.~The monsoon blew with extreme violence
2330 XXXV | of the voracity of those monsters.~Now, no matter how much
2331 I | Malzac, Moffat, Mollien, Monteiro, Morrison, Mungo Park, Neimans,
2332 XLIX | look for either palaces or monuments: the sheik is a mere son
2333 XLIX | magnificent scene.~A mass of moonbeams forcing their way through
2334 VIII | of the make of Purdey, Moore & Dickson, at Edinburgh.
2335 XXXVIII| far as the country of the Moors, who assassinated Saugnier,
2336 XXV | master, too. Whew!” he added, mopping his face, “heat’s a good
2337 XVI | very severely felt. But the moral of all this is that honors
2338 I | some degree, physically or morally, undergone the sorest trials.
2339 XXXI | muddy and almost impassable morasses, in which Barth thought
2340 XXII | Aradon, in Brittany, in the Morbihan country. His earliest instincts
2341 XLIX | Touaregs, the Sonrayans, the Morocco men, and the Fouillanes;
2342 I | Moffat, Mollien, Monteiro, Morrison, Mungo Park, Neimans, Overweg,
2343 XVII | Joe, “that we’ll taste a morsel of this fellow. I’ll undertake
2344 XVII | fact, these are the finest morsels, like the hump of the bison,
2345 XVI | trees, arborescent bushes, mosses on the even surface—all
2346 XIV | soil was bestrewn.~Kennedy motioned to his companion to be silent
2347 IX | would have to discover a motive power of extraordinary force,
2348 X | nor any other mechanical motor. A calorifere to produce
2349 XIX | collision with some unexpected mountain-peak, the doctor, about five
2350 XIII | Ere long, the crests of a mountain-range assumed a more decided prominence.
2351 IV | Rebmann, discovered two mountain-ranges three hundred miles from
2352 XLI | especially when there was a mountain-top to pass. Things went on
2353 XLI | got above the line of the mountain-tops. The situation was terrifying.
2354 XIII | becoming more broken, and even mountainous. The Zungomoro district
2355 XXX | mass of fire was, indeed, mounting toward the Victoria. Joe
2356 X | with the air, and neither mounts nor descends.~“In order,
2357 XXIV | with a laugh.~Joe cast a mournful glance at him; but the doctor
2358 XII | disposing of some alarming mouthfuls.~The doctor took his bearings,
2359 XX | enemies, and with the other mowed large spaces in them with
2360 XVI | Victoria hung motionless over Msene, an extensive group of villages
2361 XVIII | pushed his survey as far as Muanza, on the eastern coast, where
2362 I | CHAPTER FIRST.~ The End of a much-applauded Speech.—The Presentation
2363 XXVIII | requisite quantity of his much-prized ore upon the sand.~“The
2364 XXXI | for it is surrounded by muddy and almost impassable morasses,
2365 XXIV | succeeded each other and multiplied in his mind, and, by an
2366 II | Clapperton; Dr. Livingstone, in multiplying his fearless explorations
2367 XLI | continuing their rapine and murder.—Well, here below us is
2368 XII | his power to capture the murderer, but in vain.”~“I move that
2369 XXXIII | by a gang of pirates and murderers. They certainly witnessed
2370 XX | were so intent upon their murderous work that they did not notice
2371 XXX | this was but a pretext for murders, raids, and pillage. The
2372 XXV | disappeared entirely behind the murky veil, and the lower belt
2373 XI | riveted on Dr. Ferguson, murmuring indistinguishable words.
2374 XXII | history from his broken murmurs.~“Speak in your native language,”
2375 XXXVIII| crossed the Aghades route at Murzouk—a route often pressed by
2376 XI | belongs to the Imaum of Muscat, an ally of France and England,
2377 XV | cucumbers, pumpkins, and mushrooms, of perfect flavor, growing
2378 XVII | he shouted in his most musical voice.~And the three travellers
2379 XXX | and accompanied by his musicians, who blew on hoarse buffalo-horns,
2380 XXX | with an accompaniment of musket-shots, yelling, and din of every
2381 XXXV | strongly impregnated with a musky odor reached him.~“There!”
2382 XV | trade in gums, ivory, fine muslin, and slaves. Their caravans
2383 XVI | nature of the beast, we mustn’t be too hard on them for
2384 XVI | starry firmament, tranquil, mute, impassible, with the moon
2385 XXXVIII| the kind that, for twelve mutkals of gold, or about twenty-five
2386 VIII | Resolute.—Kennedy’s Arsenal.—Mutual Amenities.—The Farewell
2387 XIV | upon, with their dog-like muzzles and savage expression. However,
2388 XV | one of the sorcerers, a “myanga,” made a sign, and all the
2389 XLIX | admirable landscape for the ‘Mysteries of Udolpho’!” exclaimed
2390 I | become the agent of any mystification, however harmless.~Hence,
2391 I | his is only intended to mystify us,” growled an apoplectic
2392 XXVIII | of it all!”~This idea of mystifying some learned sage tickled
2393 XV | deposited in the fetich huts or mzimu. These gifts consisted of
2394 XXXVII | I dug my heels into my nag; I thrashed him; I fairly
2395 XVIII | as though he’d tear his nails out.~“We could make the
2396 XIX | Those fellows are great narrators—too much so, probably. Some
2397 XXXV | his skill in the art of natation.~One of those phenomena,
2398 V | Petermann is its secretary; a national subscription has provided
2399 XXXIII | to the long pirogues that navigated the lake; and the wild fishermen,
2400 I | worthy captain in the English Navy, had associated his son
2401 XII | eight miles, very visibly neared the coast of the mainland.
2402 XII | In the west—those are the nearest ranges of the Ourizara—Mount
2403 XIX | Christopher Columbus, the nearness of the shore—green shoots
2404 XXXIII | in the midst of clean and neatly-kept enclosures. This collection
2405 XIX | it touched the soil, all needful precautions were taken to
2406 XXXII | now! Don’t exasperate them needlessly. That would only be exciting
2407 XXXVII | our legs could carry us. I needn’t tell you about the towns
2408 X | hydrogen passing into it by the negative pole.~“Stopcocks, of which
2409 XLIX | seemed abandoned to supreme neglect; it betrayed that indifference
2410 XV | familiar with the young negresses, who seemed never to tire
2411 XV | the twanging of horns, the neighing of mules, the braying of
2412 IX | he went on to talk about Neptune, where seafaring men get
2413 IV | times, the ambassadors of Nero reached the ninth degree
2414 XXVII | very ill, and a prey to nervous agitation. He was suffering
2415 XXI | Kennedy was getting over his nervousness and falling into his wandering
2416 XV | the whole immense ants’ nest of black heads was again
2417 XL | the millions of swallows’ nests accumulated in its walls.
2418 XXXVIII| kept in its place by scanty nettles, withered grass, and stunted
2419 XII | belonged to the Atlas of “Der Neuester Endeckungen in Afrika” (“
2420 XXX | Obeid by Mr. Muntzinger, the newly-appointed head of the expedition,
2421 I | Daily Telegraph, the penny newspaper whose circulation amounts
2422 XII | distant horizon, and Mount Nguru reared aloft its sharp summit
2423 XIV | Joe had cut some of the nicest steaks and the best parts
2424 IX | your master must be Old Nick himself.”~“Oh! no, he’s
2425 XIX | compound word is only a sort of nickname. It imitates the sound of
2426 XXVIII | punch were dealt out with no niggardly hand.~Kennedy had traversed
2427 XXXV | hands. He saw the moment nigh when all his strength would
2428 XXI | cry of an animal or of a night-bird, or did it come from human
2429 XXXI | THIRTY-FIRST.~Departure in the Night-time.—All Three.—Kennedy’s Instincts.—
2430 V | that, during these fearful nightmares, he once or twice fell out
2431 II | sources of the Nile—fontes Nili quoerere—was regarded as
2432 XII | with the History of the Nilotic Discovery, by Charles Beke,
2433 XIII | sycamore.~Joe, slipping nimbly down the tree, carefully
2434 XXI | gloom.~As usual, he took the nine-o’clock watch, and at midnight
2435 XXX | had become impossible. His noncompliance, therefore, exasperated
2436 III | myself on the ground in the normal conditions imposed upon
2437 XVII | began to sail off to the northeastward with medium speed.~“We are
2438 XIII | in a straight line, the northernmost being the longest.~The Victoria
2439 I | regular features, and a large nose—one of those noses that
2440 V | rejoined the doctor, without noticing the insinuation. “Doctor
2441 XVI | vigorous Europe, which has nourished them for the last two thousand
2442 II | article appeared in the Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, de
2443 XXXVII | Certainly,” said Joe; “nobody nowadays can think of making the
2444 XXI | weight, I shall have in nowise altered the equilibrium
2445 XXXII | be of a kind sufficiently noxious for the doctor to let me
2446 XX | those affluents of Lake Nu, or of the River of the
2447 XIII | the roads, intersected by “nullahs,” a sort of instantaneous
2448 XXII | thank you, but my days are numbered, nay, even my hours, and
2449 XVI | assuredly. Asia was the first nurse of the world, was she not?
2450 VII | preparation which comprises many nutritive elements in a small space.
2451 XIX | though he were eating; “Nyam-Nyam.”~“My good Joe, if you were
2452 XXII | the cruelest tribes of the Nyambarra, the object of every species
2453 XXIII | That priest, who took the oath of perpetual poverty, now
2454 XXX | howl to enforce immediate obedience on the part of the aerial
2455 XXX | letters written from El’Obeid by Mr. Muntzinger, the newly-appointed
2456 XI | grimaces and contortions. Their obi-men, or wizards, went up and
2457 III | breakfast, if you have no objections, my dear Dick.”~The two
2458 XVIII | region, was obtained by an obligatory diet of curdled milk.~At
2459 XXXI | any ferocious wild beast, oblige us by sending a ball through
2460 XXXVI | Victoria was then taking an oblique line to the westward. Driven
2461 XXIV | The wind, now scarcely observable, was rather a gasp than
2462 VII | inaccessible objects.~The Greenwich Observatory had placed itself at the
2463 XVI | hollowed in the clayey soil. To observers looking from a height, it
2464 XXXVII | Route.—Joe wakes up.—His Obstinacy.—End of Joe’s Narrative.—
2465 XXVIII | but kept provokingly and obstinately fair. The balloon remained
2466 X | By this excess of heat it obtains a larger distention, and
2467 XVIII | saw in the aeronauts only obtrusive strangers, and not condescending
2468 XXII | stupor, broken only by an occasional murmur of pain that continued
2469 XXXII | rapid, fantastic curves, occasionally precipitating themselves
2470 XXXV | drifting about, without occupants, and was soon aboard of
2471 III | must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred,
2472 XVII | passed without any untoward occurrence.~
2473 XXIV | and the incidents recently occurring, had not been without their
2474 XXXIV | tossed and uneven, like the ocean-billows after a storm; a long succession
2475 XLIV | and they alone, having had ocular proof of the accomplishment
2476 I | was placed in one of those odd vehicles in which the passengers
2477 XXX | aerial monster.~They were odd-looking fellows those courtiers,
2478 II | vast solitudes; a modern OEdipus is to give us the key to
2479 V | pounds from the foreign office; he is to equip a steamer
2480 VIII | Louis!”~“But,” rejoined the officer, “could any balloon withstand
2481 XLIV | asked them to give their official testimony of his arrival
2482 XII | volley of exclamations. The “ohs!” and the “ahs!” exploded
2483 XIX | various trees. The African oil-tree rose above the mass, with
2484 IV | miles, going as far as Lake Okeracua, which he came in sight
2485 XV | where some families of Omani, who are of very pure Arabic
2486 XI | sea was regarded as a good omen of the probable issue of
2487 I | of thorough instruction, omitted no opportunity to consolidate
2488 I | by side, as they do in an omnibus. Well, it so happened that
2489 XLIX | Fouillanes in 1826; the city was one-third larger then, for Timbuctoo,
2490 XV | carefully cultivated with onions, potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins,
2491 XII | s journey, made a heavy onslaught upon the provisions.~“What
2492 I | Bright’s or Cobden’s sudden onslaughts, never had one of Palmerston’
2493 XXXV | gradually in the swampy ooze, and in a few minutes he
2494 XIX | covered with a warm mist, that oozed from the soil; the brownish
2495 XI | has seen it carried on, openly, under the French flag.~
2496 X | scape-pipe, with a valve operating by means of a pressure of
2497 V | say, to knit together the operations of Captain Speke and those
2498 V | utility of the expedition—its opportuneness, etc. This discovery of
2499 XXV | and nothing else—a simple optical phenomenon due to the unequal
2500 VI | philosophy, a charming turn of optimism. In his sight every thing
2501 XVIII | doctor, who was less of an optimist, let out as much rope as
2502 IX | He was listened to as an oracle, and he made no more mistakes
2503 I | certainly was the finest oratorical success that the Royal Geographical
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