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2504 VI | of wisdom; every thing he ordered to be done, quite feasible;
2505 III | the natural obstacles that ordinarily attend such an expedition:
2506 XX | in the delirium of their orgy, pursued them for a few
2507 XXXVIII| caravan, and, protected by his Oriental dress, reached the Niger
2508 XXV | invariably retained their original formation, and from this
2509 XIII | and complete note of the orographic conformation of the country.
2510 I | extent, a fatalist, but of an orthodox school of fatalism withal,
2511 XVII | partridges and the haunch of an oryx, a sort of gemsbok belonging
2512 XXXIV | heads reel, while the car oscillated and swung to and fro violently
2513 XII | pick up the game.~* U and Ou signify country in the language
2514 XXXVIII| strangling, at the hands of the Ouelad-shiman, who wanted to compel him
2515 XII | the nearest ranges of the Ourizara—Mount Duthumi, no doubt,
2516 XVIII | abrupt as the summits of the Ousagara, and, farther on, at Tenga,
2517 XXX | again. At first there were outcries, and then followed general
2518 XVIII | wish to determine its lower outlines. Its shores seemed to be
2519 XIV | speed. When they reached the outskirts of the forest, they, at
2520 XII | magnificent spectacle was then outspread beneath the gaze of the
2521 XII | paths plunged in beneath the overarching verdure. They swept along
2522 XXVIII | suddenly fell; the sky became overcast with clouds, and the darkness
2523 XXII | Africa. From the sea-coast, overcoming obstacles, little by little,
2524 XXVII | Joe at last; “let us not overdo the thing!” and he panted
2525 XXII | terrible manifestations!”~This overflow of blazing lava wrapped
2526 IX | not want to have myself overhauled in public. I saw no use
2527 XXI | then, in throwing out this overplus of ballast at a given moment,
2528 I | s address was completely overshadowed. The doctor had shown himself
2529 XXIII | Despair.~A magnificent night overspread the earth, and the missionary
2530 XXXIV | disorganized, broken, and overthrown, was disappearing beneath
2531 XX | feet in height. It would overtop the Houses of Parliament,
2532 XLI | feet! The mountain still overtopped the balloon by sixty feet.~
2533 XXVII | rolled down the steps, overturning Joe in her fall. The poor
2534 V | having admitted that, with an overwhelming run of good-luck, there
2535 XXIII | debt of gratitude that I owe to you!”~“You must still
2536 XLI | save Mr. Kennedy’s rifle. I owed him that good turn for the
2537 V | ascertained that M. de Heuglin, owing to some disagreement, took
2538 XLIX | where a sage like Ahmed-Baba owned, in the sixteenth century,
2539 XXXVI | troop of gazelles or of wild oxen.”~“Perhaps so, Dick; but
2540 XXXI | mammiferous animal of the pachydermal species. Its flesh is said
2541 VIII | but had performed the most pacific duty in the world.~The hold
2542 XXVII | the day he was delirious, pacing up and down, uttering hoarse
2543 XXXVIII| rival of the Nile, to which pagan superstition ascribed a
2544 XXVIII | similar manners and customs.”~“Pah!” said Joe, “but, after
2545 III | won as the conquest of a pair of ivory tusks, became the
2546 XLIX | But do not look for either palaces or monuments: the sheik
2547 XV | of strong beer, but his palate, although accustomed to
2548 XIV | blauwbok, a superb animal of a pale-bluish color shading upon the gray,
2549 I | the Travellers’ Club, in Pall Mall. A superb entertainment
2550 XXXIV | The doctor and Kennedy, pallid with emotion, sat transfixed
2551 XX | wind left the seed of a palm on it, and the seed has
2552 XIX | the papaw-tree, with its palm-shaped leaves; the sterculier,
2553 I | onslaughts, never had one of Palmerston’s abrupt demands for funds
2554 XIII | tamarind, calabash, and palmyra trees.~“Attention!” said
2555 XV | and the result was, such a pandemonium of movement, noise, and
2556 I | Park, Neimans, Overweg, Panet, Partarrieau, Pascal, Pearse,
2557 XXVII | he still felt a fleeting pang of regret. The balloon at
2558 II | Ferguson, and the heart, thrice panoplied in bronze, that could conceive
2559 XLIII | mounted men clad in broad pantaloons and the floating bournouses.
2560 XXXVI | upon him, bounded like a panther, avoided his assailant by
2561 XII | studded with cocoa-nut, papaw, and cotton-wood trees,
2562 XIX | Victoria was sailing; the papaw-tree, with its palm-shaped leaves;
2563 XXXI | covered with reeds and papyrus fifteen feet high, become
2564 IV | between the fourth and fifth parallels of north latitude.~In 1855,
2565 XXXII | fact that these immense parasols were in proper accordance
2566 XV | Then you expect to hold a parley with these blacks?”~“If
2567 XX | would overtop the Houses of Parliament, and even the Great Pyramid
2568 XXVIII | go and see! One day, in a parlor at Edinburgh, a Scotch gentleman
2569 I | Neimans, Overweg, Panet, Partarrieau, Pascal, Pearse, Peddie,
2570 XXXIV | and, from time to time, a parti-colored garment cut the chaos of
2571 I | to Australia, and in 1845 participating in Captain Sturt’s expedition,
2572 III | answer—I shall not lose one particle of gas.”~“And yet you can
2573 XXVII | the supple ease of liquid particles, and the rising dust-tide
2574 Note | accurate. It gives, in some particulars, a survey of nearly the
2575 XX | of one of the contending parties was remarkable for his athletic
2576 IV | Heuglin and Thornton have partly scaled so recently.~In 1845,
2577 XXXI | Africa, to feed on snipe and partridge, just as if we were in England.”~
2578 XVII | returned with a string of fat partridges and the haunch of an oryx,
2579 XXII | account the weight of the new passenger, had been lightened of one
2580 XI | is so blind as fanatical passion. The news of the arrival
2581 XXIII | cleverest lad in the world! What passions, what greed, what crimes,
2582 XV | who beats time to this pastoral symphony.~There, spread
2583 XIX | stretched away between broad pasture-fields whose dense herbage was
2584 XII | route. These kraals are wide patches of cleared land, surrounded
2585 XV | was the sole heir of the paternal goods, to the exclusion
2586 V | and wasted his breath in pathetic entreaties, by which the
2587 I | phrases bubbling over with patriotism:~“England has always marched
2588 XI | the boats of the Resolute patrolled the channel.~The blacks
2589 VI | growling, and a perfect pattern of constant good-humor.
2590 XII | fields had the appearance of patterns of different colors, and
2591 IV | perseverance, and after paying considerable tribute.~In
2592 XLIII | soon a volley of musketry pealed out on the air.~“Too far,
2593 I | Panet, Partarrieau, Pascal, Pearse, Peddie, Penney, Petherick,
2594 XX | the doctor. “The French peasants, when they first saw a balloon,
2595 I | Partarrieau, Pascal, Pearse, Peddie, Penney, Petherick, Poncet,
2596 I | which indicates a great pedestrian.~A calm gravity seemed to
2597 XL | mimosas, and date-trees peeped up between the houses; and,
2598 XIX | of the shore—green shoots peeping up timidly between pebbles
2599 XXXII | for the doctor to let me peg away at them!”~“I should
2600 XLIX | All kinds of aquatic birds—pelicans, wild-duck, kingfishers,
2601 XLIV | Sergeant,~“FLIPPEAU, MAYOR, PELISSIER, LOROIS, RASCAGNET, GUILLON,
2602 XXXIV | sand. The camels, flung pell-mell together, were uttering
2603 XXVII | upon it, and it was already pelted with showers of sand driven
2604 XIX | the pungent odors of the pendanus, the “kenda” of the Arabs,
2605 X | through the lower plate; it penetrates the latter and then takes
2606 I | the north of the Indian Peninsula, and crossed it from Calcutta
2607 I | the Daily Telegraph, the penny newspaper whose circulation
2608 XXIII | slaty schist without finding peptites of considerable value.”~
2609 XXX | be to London, if he were perched in the cupola of St. Paul’
2610 VI | every thing he said, the perfection of wisdom; every thing he
2611 XXI | He then took out the two perfectly-isolated conducting-wires, which
2612 XXVIII | Delight.—Joe’s Culinary Performance.—A Dissertation on Raw Meat.—
2613 VIII | body, to be sure, but had performed the most pacific duty in
2614 XIX | himself very skilfully in performing that operation.~He had occasion
2615 XVI | bloom redolent of spicy perfumes presented themselves to
2616 XXVI | forced inactivity gave them periods of leisure far from pleasant.
2617 XXVIII | would give out. After nearly perishing for want of water, they
2618 XXV | wasn’t it fine? Barclay and Perkins never turned out ale equal
2619 XXXI | still, Samuel, you will permit me to indulge that fancy
2620 XVIII | we shall alight, if God permits.”~“But, it seems to be inhabited,
2621 I | difficulty; he was never perplexed, not even in handling his
2622 XXXV | notwithstanding this rather perplexing prospect, after some hours
2623 IV | where he arrived by dint of perseverance, and after paying considerable
2624 XXIV | opinion is, that we should persevere—go clear to the end. Besides,
2625 XXX | comprehend you, but would persist in ascribing it to supernatural
2626 XL | feel very anxious. This persistence of the wind to head him
2627 XI | demonstration against the personal safety of the doctor and
2628 V | completely to lose sight of his personality— of his—Kennedy’s—and to
2629 II | Petermann knew Dr. Ferguson personally, and guaranteed the intrepidity
2630 III | Hence, a restless spirit personified in Ferguson; perfect calmness
2631 V | which, however, did NOT persuade Samuel Ferguson, and wasted
2632 IX | harangues.~Our dazzling narrator persuaded his hearers that, after
2633 V | regaled him with the most persuasive arguments, which, however,
2634 I | Berlin, Vienna, or St. Petersburg, or yet with the Travellers’
2635 XLIII | huge ante-diluvian animals, petrified there amid the waters.~The
2636 XXXVIII| Victoria was passing over a petty town, a mere assemblage
2637 XI | remained with the numerous phalanx of the incredulous.~“I doubted,”
2638 II | about the affair in all its phases.~Many large bets were made
2639 II | Society of London and their phenomenal sturgeon.~But Herr Petermann,
2640 XXVIII | to succumb to so little,” philosophized Dr. Ferguson.~“So little
2641 XXXVI | who had recovered all his phlegmatic coolness.~Joe was almost
2642 XVI | watching the phenomena of phosphorescence produced by the fires of
2643 I | All had, in some degree, physically or morally, undergone the
2644 I | a peculiar charm to his physiognomy. His arms were long, and
2645 I | age, of medium height and physique. His sanguine temperament
2646 XXIII | said Kennedy.~And Joe, picking up one more block, desperately
2647 XLI | dropping off this way by piecemeal.”~“Now, for your part, Joe,
2648 XXXVI | on Joe, and was about to pierce him with his lance, when
2649 XIII | a kind of fly whose bite pierces the thickest cloth, and
2650 IV | their baggage having been pillaged, and their attendants beaten
2651 XLI | village nor a hut in their pillaging, massacring career. He advanced
2652 XXVII | clouds of dust; an immense pillar was seen whirling toward
2653 XV | outside, supported upon wooden pillars, which had some pretensions
2654 XLIX | find others for it, on a pinch?”~“Not exactly, Joe; but
2655 XXVI | Samuel! for here we are pinned to the ground, like a bird
2656 XXXVIII| ravines and pools where the pintadoes and snipes went sailing
2657 II | The labors of these hardy pioneers of science are now about
2658 XXXII | sun, and made thereon some pious reflections which it were
2659 XXXIII | swooped down close to the long pirogues that navigated the lake;
2660 XVI | stuff fairly cracked like a pistol as it flew back from the
2661 VIII | was excited to the highest pitch when he made known to them,
2662 XXXII | you hear me, Joe? We are pitching into the lake!”~Joe obeyed.
2663 XXXV | by a diet of roots, the pith of plants, such as the Mele,
2664 XXXIV | were uttering dull and pitiful groans; cries and howls
2665 XVIII | could, so as to escape these pitiless insects, that began to rise
2666 XIII | patient at Martinique to the Pitons, a lofty mountain on that
2667 VIII | Napoleon by his Holiness, Pius VII.’ On the next morning,
2668 XXXI | dazzling rays over this placid sheet of water, and toward
2669 XIII | slopes are merely inclined planes. The depressions in the
2670 IX | the stars—and the splendid planets that my old man so often
2671 XII | deeper color upon a vast planisphere; the fields had the appearance
2672 V | supplies to some extent.”~“Well planned,” said Kennedy.~“You can
2673 XVIII | drawn, and mwani, the wild plant which supplies a substitute
2674 XVIII | seen growing the species of plantain from which the wine of the
2675 XL | the river could be seen plantations of tobacco, and swampy meadow-lands
2676 I | long, and his feet were planted with that solidity which
2677 XXXVII | upon small scaffoldings or platforms, to keep them out of the
2678 XXXII | of houses that look like playing-dice, which form most Arab towns.
2679 XXXI | get down nearer to them?” pleaded Kennedy.~“We can get closer
2680 XIX | next morning, they all had pleasanter feelings. The weather was
2681 XXVIII | become the topic of daily pleasantry, and, in reference to the
2682 XV | no means proud, nay, even pleasingly familiar with the young
2683 XXXVII | sets a man up like a little pleasure-trip with a bath in Lake Tchad
2684 XIX | brave captains, the steamer Pleiad has already ascended as
2685 VI | the stars in the group of Pleiades, the remotest of them being
2686 VIII | driven by her screw, began to plough the water toward the mouth
2687 XXXIII | wild-duck, snipe, teal, and plover. He went to work at once
2688 XXXV | this soon enabled him to pluck up courage, although the
2689 XI | compel them to do so, they plucked leaves of all the different
2690 XXXVII | about three hours, I go plump, like a fool, into a camp
2691 XXX | The major was completely plundered and stripped, and had it
2692 XXIII | ravine, in the midst of some plutonic rocks of primitive formation.
2693 VIII | subjected to a powerful pneumatic pressure in all parts, and
2694 XXXII | don’t like to see anybody poaching in their country up in the
2695 XIX | that it takes its rise. Poesy, undoubtedly, loses something
2696 XIX | but there always will be poets.”~“We can still see cataracts,”
2697 XXXVII | intelligence and skill.”~“Poh! doctor, one has only just
2698 XXVI | over him; he seemed to be poised on the edge of an abyss;
2699 XV | bow and arrows barbed and poisoned with the juice of the euphorbium,
2700 XXXV | them. The negroes were busy poisoning arrows with the juice of
2701 XII | rays of the sun pump up its poisonous vapors. Once in a while
2702 XXXV | where we are,” he said. “The polar-star there, that does its work
2703 I | militant and not to the church polemical. He found his time better
2704 XIV | blocks of syenite of a fine polish, and knobbed with huge bowlders
2705 XXX | he was receiving a very polite invitation to depart. Indeed,
2706 XV | I won’t be behind you in politeness, and so I’ll give you one
2707 V | thanks to his talents as a polyglot, he had made rapid progress.~
2708 I | Club, or even the Royal Polytechnic Institute, where his friend
2709 XV | stalks of barley and of “pombe.” Joe considered himself
2710 I | Peddie, Penney, Petherick, Poncet, Prax, Raffenel, Rabh, Rebmann,
2711 VII | ascensional force.~After having pondered the matter carefully, Dr.
2712 IX | exclaimed Joe, “To the moon! pooh! that’s too common. Every
2713 XXIV | of passing some stream or pool, we have but three days
2714 XLIII | was escaping through the pores of the covering.~Ere long
2715 XXIII | bestrewn with quartz and porphyritic rocks.~“This is a singular
2716 XXVIII | wind.~Joe had conveyed his portable kitchen to the oasis, and
2717 XLIX | between Sierra Leone and Portendick. There is a stretch of country
2718 I | Excelsior.—Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.—A Fatalist
2719 XLIV | of June they arrived at Portsmouth, and on the next day at
2720 X | the battery, passes at its positive pole into the second receptacle.
2721 XV | the desire it excites to possess it.~All at once this agitation,
2722 XXXVIII| Africa near to the British possessions; and he it was who got so
2723 V | then there was the singular possessive adjective:~“‘Our’ balloon; ‘
2724 XXX | indicated the ambition of its possessor. These corpulent gentry
2725 XXXIII | discussing this terrible possibility.~The doctor made out the
2726 XV | cultivated with onions, potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, and
2727 VII | time. It weighed half a pound per nine square feet. Hence
2728 XXXV | consisting of sour milk and rice pounded in honey. The worthy fellow,
2729 XL | There! the rain’s going to pour down harder than ever; and
2730 XXIII | took the oath of perpetual poverty, now reposes in a gold-mine!”~“
2731 XXXII | conical shape, in which a poverty-stricken multitude vegetate rather
2732 VIII | unforeseen emergencies. His powder-case, his cartridge-pouch, his
2733 XII | Kennedy. “It’s the same as a powder-magazine suspended over our heads.”~“
2734 XXV | down into a parched and powdery sand—the very dryest of
2735 XII | majestically away above all their powerless fury.~The wind was setting
2736 XIX | seasoned with Joe’s merry pranks, put them in high good-humor.~
2737 XL | eat them.”~“They are the prawns of the air,” said Joe, who
2738 I | Penney, Petherick, Poncet, Prax, Raffenel, Rabh, Rebmann,
2739 XXIII | knelt together in silent prayer.~“To-morrow,” resumed the
2740 XXII | be forgotten in my dying prayers?”~“We are English travellers,”
2741 XIII | undulations of the country which precede Rubeho. These form the last
2742 II | enterprise, which has no precedent in the annals of exploration.”~
2743 III | mountain, I can pass over it; a precipice, I can sweep across it;
2744 XIX | dashed against a chimney and precipitated her to the ground.”~“Let
2745 XLIII | thousand feet, the Senegal precipitates itself for a height of one
2746 I | and stamp the faces of men predestined to accomplish great discoveries.
2747 XIII | hours later, the doctor’s prediction was fully verified. Kennedy
2748 XXXIII | doctor said, without further preface:~“Crocodiles are found only
2749 XVI | she travailed, she grew pregnant, she produced, and then,
2750 IX | no use in that. I made my preparatory experiments in secret and
2751 VIII | exceed a certain weight prescribed by the doctor.~The three
2752 XXXIV | forward without sending many presents in advance of them to the
2753 XX | rapid as ours.”~“Heaven preserve us from their attacks!”
2754 XIX | we’ll have to put up with preserved meat and coffee until Mr.
2755 XL | case that had contained preserved-meat—and thereby managed to keep
2756 XXXVII | s our gallant friend—our preserver!” exclaimed Kennedy, cordially.—“
2757 VIII | centuries. Sir Francis M—— presided, with restrained but dignified
2758 V | been organized under the presidency of the Regent of Saxe-Cogurg-Gotha;
2759 XI | the “rain-makers,” who pretend to have control over the
2760 XV | pillars, which had some pretensions to being carved. Long lines
2761 XXX | flight. All this was but a pretext for murders, raids, and
2762 XXVIII | as he had done for the previous night; and during the watches
2763 XV | eyes each article has a price only in proportion to the
2764 XXXV | promontory covered with prickly reeds, that proved very
2765 I | such trifles, having no pride, and less vanity. He looked
2766 XXII | mission of the order of priesthood of which St. Vincent de
2767 XXX | that he must have been a prime minister—at least, if the
2768 XXIII | of some plutonic rocks of primitive formation. The surrounding
2769 XI | as proud and happy as a prince. Every one in the party
2770 XXXII | In the court-yards of the private dwellings, and on the public
2771 XLIV | RASCAGNET, GUILLON, LEBEL, Privates.”~Here ended the astonishing
2772 II | and fourthly, upon the probabilities of Dr. Ferguson’s return.
2773 XI | regarded as a good omen of the probable issue of the trip through
2774 IX | suit himself—a style of procedure pursued, by the way, by
2775 I | Ferguson’s speech in “The Proceedings of the Royal Geographical
2776 IX | letting off gas, and by these processes your ballast and your gas
2777 XV | vegetation, this enthusiastic procession arrived at the sultan’s
2778 XXX | surrounded by his court, proclaimed silence, and pronounced
2779 XVIII | the lake, but he could not procure a boat, either to cross
2780 XII | wild profuseness over this prodigal soil.~Village after village
2781 XIX | in the sunshine.~By this prodigality of Nature, the doctor recognized
2782 XI | of the balloon increased prodigiously, and Ferguson, Kennedy,
2783 XXX | many monkeys, and thereby producing a single and instantaneous
2784 XIV | having gathered up the product of their expedition, rapidly
2785 XVI | beginning to die out; her productive powers are diminishing every
2786 I | perils and adventures of his profession. The fine little fellow,
2787 XV | of them, by-the-way, most professionally filthy.~Little by little
2788 XLIX | of learned men, and her professorships of philosophy, stretched
2789 XI | and beautiful, and they profited nothing by their slaughtered
2790 XXI | with determined daring, and profiting by their alarm at our fire-arms,
2791 XIV | glittering with stars, and profoundly silent in the upper air.~
2792 XXVIII | all the time with the most profuse extravagance.~“What a strange
2793 XII | vegetation spread in wild profuseness over this prodigal soil.~
2794 XIV | mbenbu”-tree which grows in profusion, on the western part of
2795 XVI | impassible, with the moon projecting her peaceful rays over these
2796 XXXII | then breaking their line of projection by an abrupt and daring
2797 XVIII | Tenga, encountered the first projections of the Karagwah chains,
2798 XL | not that to do so would prolong our journey,” said the doctor, “
2799 V | Dick’s Insinuations. —A Promenade over the Map of Africa.—
2800 XIII | mountain-range assumed a more decided prominence. A few peaks rose here and
2801 I | inducement held out had been promotion to the first lordship in
2802 XLII | go, then!” said Kennedy, promptly.~“To work!” said Joe.~It
2803 XXXVI | and it was needless to pronounce the name.~“Yes! it is he!
2804 V | Kennedy’s Dreams.—Articles and Pronouns in the Plural.—Dick’s Insinuations. —
2805 II | from the Annales de la Propagation de la Foi to the Church
2806 XXIV | thousand years to invent propellers and screws; so we have time
2807 XV | goddess.”~They brought him propitiatory gifts, such as are usually
2808 XX | remarkable for his athletic proportions, his great height, and herculean
2809 II | Koner. —Bets made.—Sundry Propositions offered to the Doctor.~On
2810 XXXIV | rather give up the idea of prosecuting this journey than not return.
2811 XXVI | Solitude.—Debility.—Joe’s Prospects.—He gives himself One Day
2812 XVI | midst of the fire.~“God protect us!” said Dr. Ferguson,
2813 XV | and their superstition protects me; so have no fear, and
2814 XXX | long musket, cocked it, and proudly waited in silence. The doctor
2815 XIX | has been, unfortunately, proven true, is, the ferocity of
2816 X | themselves, sufficient to provide for all these ascending
2817 XV | that the moon made her provincial tour every thousand years,
2818 XLIV | Englishmen were escorted to a provisional post established on the
2819 XXXV | reeds, that proved very provoking and inconvenient even to
2820 XXVIII | sign of change, but kept provokingly and obstinately fair. The
2821 I | noses that resemble the prow of a ship, and stamp the
2822 XVII | the dead elephant, were prowling about in the neighborhood.
2823 XXXII | to escape this dangerous proximity. He therefore dilated the
2824 II | there was not a scientific publication, from the Journal of Evangelical
2825 Note | PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.~“Five Weeks in a
2826 XXXV | with green trees, when a puff of air strongly impregnated
2827 XXX | That is Kernak. The last puffs of the breeze are wafting
2828 XXV | spring, but these stones, pulverized by the baking heat of the
2829 XII | blazing rays of the sun pump up its poisonous vapors.
2830 XV | onions, potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, and mushrooms, of perfect
2831 XIX | fine down of its seeds; the pungent odors of the pendanus, the “
2832 XV | of these regions, to be purchased at the strangest of bargains
2833 VIII | every test, of the make of Purdey, Moore & Dickson, at Edinburgh.
2834 XIX | grasped the butt of his Purdy.~The fauna of the region
2835 XXXII | if they were armed with Purdy-Moore rifles,” admitted Kennedy.~“
2836 XVI | fatal to strangers will be purified by cultivation and by drainage
2837 XII | full of straight stalks and purple blossoms. They could distinguish
2838 XL | clay-built mosque, and the putrid odor of the millions of
2839 XXX | said the doctor, somewhat puzzled to make out what it meant.~“
2840 XX | Parliament, and even the Great Pyramid of Egypt. The trunk at the
2841 XIX | natives had tails, like mere quadrupeds; but it was soon discovered
2842 I | toasts were offered and quaffed, in the wines of France,
2843 XII | descried some hares and quails that asked nothing better
2844 III | they possessed different qualities, aptitudes, and temperaments,
2845 XII | It is just to mix equal quantities of Mocha, of Bourbon coffee,
2846 XIX | been fatal to them.~About a quarter-past nine in the morning, they
2847 II | came pouring in from all quarters. The details of the undertaking
2848 XXIII | found it burdened with the quartz-blocks that Joe’s greed had heaped
2849 XXVIII | burst out laughing at Joe’s queer notions, and thus the day
2850 XXXI | to taste the meat of that queer-looking beast. It doesn’t look exactly
2851 XIV | of a dozen antelopes were quenching their thirst in the bed
2852 XVII | direction. For a long while his quest was fruitless; the wind
2853 V | threw himself back upon questioning the utility of the expedition—
2854 XXIV | passed the night in perfect quietness; and the travellers were
2855 XIII | That beats sulphate of quinine!” said the energetic Scot,
2856 XXXV | the blacks; then he could quit his hiding-place and run
2857 XLII | at the balloon, already quivered on its illuminated sides;
2858 II | of the Nile—fontes Nili quoerere—was regarded as a mad endeavor,
2859 XXXVIII| Dhiouleba, Mayo, Egghirreou, Quorra, and other titles besides,
2860 XV | lintels of the door, some rabbits’ tails and zebras’ manes,
2861 XXX | of his rank. The common rabble of dusky denizens united
2862 I | Poncet, Prax, Raffenel, Rabh, Rebmann, Richardson, Riley,
2863 XLIX | exclaimed the doctor. “Ann Radcliffe could not have depicted
2864 I | different lengths of the radii?—or, the number of miles
2865 I | Petherick, Poncet, Prax, Raffenel, Rabh, Rebmann, Richardson,
2866 XXXV | two hours, Joe had not a rag remaining of the garments
2867 XXXIV | the morning the wind was raging. It beat down with such
2868 XXX | but a pretext for murders, raids, and pillage. The major
2869 VIII | near the rapidity of our railroad trains, by travelling day
2870 XII | indeed!” said the other.~“Railroads! eh? rubbish!” put in Kennedy, “
2871 XIII | travellers were beyond the rainy belt of country.~“Wait a
2872 XIII | and with that you must rally home.”~“Agreed!” said Kennedy;
2873 XIV | The Blue Antelope.—The Rallying-Signal. —An Unexpected Attack.—
2874 XIII | of the country. The three ramifications mentioned, of which the
2875 XLIX | that I can see half-ruined ramparts,” said Kennedy.~“They were
2876 XXI | the horrible odors of the rancid grease with which they bedaub
2877 XXXII | resemblance to those ferocious rangers of the deep.~“They are following
2878 XXX | was any criterion of his rank. The common rabble of dusky
2879 XXVIII | in all directions. He had ransacked every thicket and satisfied
2880 XXX | hope of obtaining a good ransom for him.~“Baron de Neimans
2881 XVIII | water foamed as it fell in rapids and cataracts, which confirmed
2882 XLI | Kaarta, continuing their rapine and murder.—Well, here below
2883 III | five good, hearty, sounding raps at the door.~Ferguson opened,
2884 XXIII | back, and he inhaled with rapture the light breezes of that
2885 XLIII | the extent of one-half, by rarefying it. Thus, the Victoria quickly
2886 XLIV | MAYOR, PELISSIER, LOROIS, RASCAGNET, GUILLON, LEBEL, Privates.”~
2887 XV | the balloon, caught the rascal between the limbs, and carried
2888 XXX | can be sold at lucrative rates.~At the sight of the Victoria,
2889 XXXVI | out the ladder, the lowest ratlines of which tossed up the dust
2890 XV | the banging of the huge rattan, wielded by the jemadar
2891 XVI | hissed through the air and rattled on the covering of the Victoria.
2892 XL | of compensation for their ravages, since the natives gather
2893 XX | leave, doctor, and if it reaches them safe and sound, they’
2894 XXIV | would cease.~The doctor reacted against the gloominess of
2895 XIII | continued Ferguson, “for, upon reading the narratives of such travellers
2896 II | chimera that could not be realized.~“Dr. Barth, in following
2897 XXXI | so long consigned to the realms of fable—that interior expanse
2898 XXVI | difference did sixty miles to the rear make in this region, when
2899 XII | horizon, and Mount Nguru reared aloft its sharp summit in
2900 XXXIII | this difference in order to rearrange his equilibrium. The new
2901 XIII | was disengaged, and Joe reascended to the car by means of the
2902 III | resemblance to anything reasonable or practicable!”~“That’s
2903 XXXIII | mainland. The doctor was reasoning thus to himself, when he
2904 II | all, without giving his reasons for rejecting them.~Numerous
2905 XXI | heard nothing!”~“We can reassure him, on that score,” said
2906 XVII | good Joe,” said the doctor, reassuring him; “we have to economize
2907 XXXV | less resigned than he was, rebelled, and he was obliged to fasten
2908 IX | some trouble in getting the rebellious spirits to believe in it;
2909 XLIII | and rose again, but her rebound was diminishing in height
2910 XLIII | touched the surface ere it rebounded, and only came down again
2911 XLIII | gum-elastic ball, bounding and rebounding through the air. A strange
2912 XIX | of Yola, which recently rebuilt by the Fouillans, excited
2913 XXII | I can, indeed, scarcely recall what has occurred. Who are
2914 XXXV | thirst at any moment, and, in recalling the sufferings he had undergone
2915 XIX | complain.”~The balloon was now receding gradually from the Nile.~“
2916 X | of double its capacity, receives the hydrogen passing into
2917 XXX | to be aware that he was receiving a very polite invitation
2918 XVII | myself of the two hours’ recess that Joe has condescended
2919 XII | and Joe’s Proposition.—A Recipe for Coffee-making.—The Uzaramo.—
2920 XLIV | our travellers were the recipients may be imagined. The Frenchmen,
2921 III | lives, or to render any reciprocal service. Hence, an unalterable
2922 XXVI | doctor, cool, impassible, reckless explorer that he was, felt
2923 XXII | spurned, his zeal denied recognition, his charities taken in
2924 XV | first. Several “waganga,” recognizable by their badges of conical
2925 V | untrue to my past history; recoil before obstacles that are
2926 XXVII | close upon Kennedy’s heels, recoiled with him.~“We are blocked
2927 XXXIII | from an island.”~“Yes, I recollect it,” said the doctor, “but
2928 XLI | administration of Colonel Faidherbe, reconnoissances have been pushed far up
2929 I | will, at least, remain on record as one of the most daring
2930 XXV | whom the incident just recorded had, for a few moments,
2931 XXXVIII| objects in view: namely, to recover the lost man’s papers, as
2932 XXVIII | swept away, and all hope of recovering it have been forever lost.~
2933 XVIII | natives getting ready to recross the river.”~“That matters
2934 XVIII | directions, crossing and recrossing each other, mingling, contending
2935 XIX | our route by one of them, rectifying it when need be.”~“Is all
2936 XXII | amazement.~“They are souls to redeem! ignorant and barbarous
2937 XLIII | should have been lost beyond redemption,” said the doctor, after
2938 XXXVIII| between 1829 and 1831, redescended the river from Boussa to
2939 XXII | half of the balloon glowed redly in the upper night; a torrid
2940 XXIV | in the meanwhile, let us redouble our vigilance!”~At their
2941 XXV | swallowed then and there, reducing the total remaining supply
2942 XXXV | branch to buoy him up; not a reed to which he might cling!
2943 XVIII | Nile!”~“It is the Nile!” reeechoed Kennedy, carried away by
2944 III | is a mere suburb of Auld Reekie. Sometimes he was a fisherman,
2945 XX | disputing for the still warm and reeking flesh, and eagerly devouring
2946 XV | give you one of my country reels.”~So at it he went, in one
2947 IV | two daring explorers then reembarked for England; and the Geographical
2948 XXXV | wild-boars and native buffaloes, reenforced by the ajoub—a very dangerous
2949 XXXIII | THIRTY-THIRD.~Conjectures.—Reestablishment of the Victoria’s Equilibrium.—
2950 XXV | phenomenon due to the unequal refraction of light by different layers
2951 XIX | passed in undisturbed and refreshing slumber.~
2952 XXV | of this cloud, since it refuses to burst upon us?”~“I fancy
2953 V | under the presidency of the Regent of Saxe-Cogurg-Gotha; my
2954 XVI | a succession of ditches regularly arranged, and, by one last
2955 XXVI | absolute calm seemed to reign, up to the extreme limits
2956 XII | there is a perpetual malaria reigning throughout the country in
2957 XV | in the market-place there reigns perpetual excitement, a
2958 XXXVI | report. Some of the horsemen reined in their barbs, and fell
2959 XVIII | Here is, indeed, the Nile!” reiterated the doctor, with the tone
2960 II | without giving his reasons for rejecting them.~Numerous inventors
2961 XXXIII | to give him the chance of rejoining us.”~“May God grant it as
2962 XXIII | in the ravine.~The doctor rekindled the light in the cylinder;
2963 XXV | from his manoeuvre, and was relapsing into deep meditation, when
2964 VIII | in Africa; and the doctor related to them the explorations
2965 XXXVII | than of his own, and, in relation to the sinking of the island
2966 XXII | You will again behold your relatives, your friends, your country—
2967 XXIII | him to descend, except by releasing a quantity of gas proportionate
2968 XXXV | foot-travel, his confident reliance on his master remained undiminished.
2969 XXXVI | direction as the balloon. He relies upon our intelligence. Ah!
2970 XV | instruments, and with wild religious dances, slowly proceeded
2971 XXVII | moment more!” and swiftly reloaded his rifle.~In another instant
2972 XVII | shoulder-joint,” said Kennedy, reloading his rifle with care. In
2973 XXX | absolutely deserted for the remainder of that day.~Night came,
2974 VIII | breaking out in laughable remarks. The worthy fellow soon
2975 XIX | hill-sides and hollows frequently reminded the beholder of the glens
2976 XL | therefore a disagreeable reminder of the actual situation
2977 XXXVIII| By-the-way,” put in Joe, “that reminds me of what was said by an
2978 XLIII | careful to expel the last remnant of hydrogen through the
2979 XIX | stopped in a wide clearing remote from any habitation. The
2980 VI | the group of Pleiades, the remotest of them being only of the
2981 XII | then lowered to him and he remounted to the car with agility.
2982 XIII | are now deluging us, and remove you from this pestilential
2983 XXXII | beak and claws, ready to rend it with either or both.~“
2984 XXXI | little. There is no harm in renewing our stock of provisions.
2985 IX | considerable share of his master’s renown was reflected upon him.
2986 XVIII | are to the sources of the renowned river, I could not sleep.”~
2987 XVI | races of the future may repair hither, when Europe shall
2988 VI | And Kennedy went.~They repaired in company to the workshop
2989 XLI | that we have no means of repairing it.”~“Then what shall we
2990 XII | seasoned by the jokes and repartees of the guests. Each one
2991 XXXIV | many caravans that pass and repass there. The last line of
2992 XLI | Al-Hadji and his bands then repassed the Senegal, and reappeared
2993 XV | received with a tremendous repetition of shouts and cries in the
2994 XXIII | to lose no opportunity of replenishing his supply.~Upon getting
2995 XXIV | flatly stated.—Energetic Replies of Kennedy and Joe. —One
2996 XI | latitudes. Mr. G. Lejean even reports that he has seen it carried
2997 XXIII | body of the poor Frenchman reposed, he went back to his car.~
2998 XXIII | of perpetual poverty, now reposes in a gold-mine!”~“A gold-mine!”
2999 X | twenty-five gallons of water represent six hundred and thirty-six
3000 VII | four thousand pounds is represented by a displacement of the
3001 X | pounds of hydrogen. This represents, at atmospheric tension,
3002 XXIII | said the hunter, unable to repress a smile. “We did not come
3003 XV | characters that strove to reproduce the forms of men and serpents,
3004 XV | imitative as monkeys, at once reproduced all his airs and graces,
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