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3005 XXXVIII| water from it, feels himself repulsed by an invisible hand.”~“
3006 XXXV | in length, a monstrous, repulsive specimen of vermin that
3007 XXXV | enjoy the well-deserved reputation of being quite inoffensive.~
3008 XXI | The sacks were placed as requested, and the arms were put in
3009 XXIII | at the time when he had rescued the missionary. He therefore
3010 XXXVI | two hundred miles since rescuing Joe, it passed the tenth
3011 XXXIII | comprehend the object of our researches.”~“But, at last,” put in
3012 I | one of those noses that resemble the prow of a ship, and
3013 XLIX | thick growth of herbage, resembled luxuriant meadow-lands.
3014 XI | winds. This huge tower, resembling a tun standing on one end,
3015 XXVII | water that had been kept in reserve. The natural instinct proved
3016 XLII | required to detach these reservoirs from the bottom of the car
3017 VII | gutta percha. This gummy, resinous substance is absolutely
3018 XXXV | few leaves, he set forth resolutely, again feeling an obstinate
3019 XXXIV | ourselves for his!”~This resolve revived some hope in the
3020 XXXVIII| A Rapid Passage.—Prudent Resolves.—Caravans in Sight.—Incessant
3021 XIX | that he left it; but he respected the silent mood of his friends,
3022 XXXV | sorcerers of the island took him respectfully by the hand, and conducted
3023 I | the doctor’s head and feet respectively being given, required the
3024 XIII | from their mouths and ears. Respirable air was wanting. Some years
3025 XXIV | immensity of the desert.~The responsibility resting upon him pressed
3026 I | shorter according to the resting-place that each stage of a journey
3027 XX | with creatures naturally so restive.”~“Oh! we’d tame them,”
3028 III | other forward. Hence, a restless spirit personified in Ferguson;
3029 XV | Unyamwezy, has charged us to restore him to health. Let him prepare
3030 VIII | Francis M—— presided, with restrained but dignified feeling.~To
3031 XXXIII | doctor had much difficulty in restraining the balloon; but at length
3032 XXVI | days! Perhaps, too, while retaining the water, he might have
3033 X | safety-valve. The balloon always retains the same quantity of hydrogen,
3034 XI | from any idea of violent retaliation.~“We shall certainly come
3035 IV | embarked upon the Nile with a retinue of twenty-one hired men
3036 XIII | this is where I’ll have to retire to when I get old!”~About
3037 XXII | between the tribes, instead of retracing his steps, he persisted
3038 X | from the balloon and then returns to it, and is heated over
3039 IV | and, in company with the Rev. Dr. Rebmann, discovered
3040 XII | origin, but he never would reveal to me the ingredients.”~“
3041 XXXV | carried on their ferocious revels in the bushes and under
3042 XXVIII | but you can take your revenge some time, Mr. Kennedy,
3043 XXXV | heard festive chantings, the reverberations of a kind of drum, and a
3044 III | trouble. In fact, quite the reverse.~Dick Kennedy was a Scotchman,
3045 VIII | to the polar regions, to revictual the last expedition of Sir
3046 II | enterprise.~The North American Review could not, without some
3047 XXI | muskets; twelve in the two revolvers; or seventeen in all, which
3048 II | Evangelical Missions to the Revue Algerienne et Coloniale,
3049 XXIII | in the lot, weighed and reweighed it, and tossed it up and
3050 XII | and here and there immense rice-fields, full of straight stalks
3051 XVIII | barley-fields took the place of rice-plantations, and there, too, could be
3052 XVI | now passing, more fertile, richer, and fuller of vitality
3053 XXX | with the skill of an Indian rider, and was borne with a headlong
3054 XLIII | soil, and Al-Hadji’s black riders rushed toward it; but, as
3055 XXXIV | eye could see, rose now a ridgy line of hillocks, still
3056 II | England. It therefore rather ridiculed the doctor’s scheme, and
3057 XXXVI | That is not their chief riding ahead of them, but a fugitive.”~“
3058 XX | full in the forehead with a rifle-ball, fell headlong to the ground.~
3059 XVII | Kennedy, discharging one last rifle-shot.~The elephant uttered a
3060 XX | drive them off with a few rifle-shots.”~“Nevertheless, I would
3061 XIV | encounter. Without being a rifleman, Joe could handle fire-arms
3062 VIII | travellers got themselves to rights on board during the working-hours
3063 X | screw-shaped spiral, the rings of which, rising one over
3064 IX | otherwise I should not have risked this expedition across Africa
3065 I | Rebmann, Richardson, Riley, Ritchey, Rochet d’Hericourt, Rongawi,
3066 XLII | insisted Joe.~“Your generous rivalry is useless, my brave friends,”
3067 XLIII | river sent forth a prolonged roaring; and when Ferguson reached
3068 XXXVII | stomach!”~The goose was soon roasted by the flame of the blow-pipe,
3069 XVIII | Nile, these men came to rob them of something, and so
3070 XXVI | risks. You might have been robbed,” he added, laughing. “But,
3071 XII | wild beasts, but also the robber tribes of the country. They
3072 XXXVIII| in 1810, an Englishman, Robert Adams, had seen this curious
3073 XV | made, too, under the long robes that they wore gracefully
3074 XV | African populations, strong, robust, well-made, and in splendid
3075 I | Richardson, Riley, Ritchey, Rochet d’Hericourt, Rongawi, Roscher,
3076 XLII | the tree-tops and gently rocked the car, inviting the hunter
3077 XXX | and fro in the air like rockets, forming a regular network
3078 XXX | boughs of the trees as he rode up, was making his grand
3079 XXV | alone, up here! There are rogues about! They’ve stolen our
3080 VI | one of those so-called “Roman” scales was in readiness.
3081 XIX | French author— M. Mery—in a romance, it is true. He has his
3082 I | Ritchey, Rochet d’Hericourt, Rongawi, Roscher, Ruppel, Saugnier,
3083 XV | formed by the thatched roof, adorned the outside, supported
3084 XV | course, than the former. The roofing of this abode did not rest
3085 XVI | appeared MUFFLED, and, like a room hung with tapestry, lost
3086 XX | and the seed has taken root and grown as though it were
3087 VIII | expedition of Sir James Ross. Her commander, Captain
3088 XXXIV | reeds chafed the silk so roughly that it seemed as though
3089 XXX | him, and then, with his roundest and fullest voice, saluted
3090 XVI | shelter, and lie down; I will rouse you, if it becomes necessary.”~“
3091 XXXI | just big enough for such a rousing beast as that!”~“Humph!”
3092 XXX | blow there was a general rout. Every mother’s son of them
3093 XVI | sonorous reverberation. The “rover bird” so-called, the coroneted
3094 VIII | Mackenzie, ascended the river Rovoonia. The nineteenth century
3095 VIII | aiding the strong arms of the rowers, bore them swiftly to Greenwich.
3096 XXX | really a city with straight rows of houses and quite wide
3097 III | air, doctor, there’s the rub!”~“Come, then,” said the
3098 XLII | unexpected crackling sound.~He rubbed his eyes and sprang to his
3099 XVIII | passed the slopes of the Rubemhe, which are nearly as abrupt
3100 VII | careful attention, as the rudder of a ship would be.~The
3101 XXXV | but the trunk of a tree rudely hollowed out; but there
3102 XXXII | of white clay, and a few rudely-constructed mosques rising clumsily
3103 XXIV | midst of this sterility, the rudimental carcass of the Globe appeared
3104 XXXVII | was already falling into ruin when Dr. Barth visited it.~
3105 XII | thought their expedition ruined. And yet they were only
3106 I | the statistician Cockburn ruled in state.~The latter savant
3107 XL | and into the power of a ruler who was in the habit of
3108 XVI | sort of hail, preceded by a rumbling noise, hissed through the
3109 XVIII | for some time, he began to rummage among the brambles, and,
3110 I | Hericourt, Rongawi, Roscher, Ruppel, Saugnier, Speke, Steidner,
3111 XLIX | Lomond, and tourists would rush there in crowds.”~“Our balloon
3112 XLIII | and the folds of the silk rustled and grated on each other.~“
3113 XXXI | for my legs begin to feel rusty, and I wouldn’t be vexed
3114 XLIX | thimbles—such is the bird’s-eye view! The streets, which
3115 XI | the car, but within arm’s-reach.~These preparations were
3116 XV | rhinoceros’-teeth, the shark’s-teeth, the honey, the tobacco,
3117 XV | cutlass, the “sima,” a long sabre (also with saw-like teeth),
3118 III | and Clapperton, lost at Sackatou, to the Frenchman Maizan,
3119 XL | who was in the habit of sacrificing thousands of human victims
3120 XI | determined to oppose so sacrilegious an enterprise.~The consul,
3121 XXXVII | way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take
3122 X | nothing more nor less than a safety-valve. The balloon always retains
3123 XXXVIII| on the 28th of September sailed for Toulon. In nineteen
3124 VIII | eight hundred tons, a fast sailer, and the very vessel that
3125 XIII | and there, bestrewn with saline plants and brambly thickets.~
3126 XIX | fowling-piece in hand, sallied out upon the sloping plain.
3127 VII | of tea, coffee, biscuit, salted meat, and pemmican, a preparation
3128 XIII | others that are perfectly salubrious.~Kennedy was visibly suffering,
3129 XXXV | lay scattered around this sanctuary. But he had still more time
3130 XI | the morning breeze; the sand-bags that had held it down were
3131 XXXIV | symptoms of moderating; the sand-dust is less dense; the undulations
3132 XXXIV | Resolution adopted.—The Sand-Storm.—The Buried Caravan.—A Contrary
3133 XLIX | Farther on, and near to the Sane-Gungu quarter, is the Mosque of
3134 I | height and physique. His sanguine temperament was disclosed
3135 XLIX | triangle rises the Mosque of Sankore, with its ranges of galleries
3136 XVIII | the Greek, the Coptic, the Sanscrit; but all that matters little
3137 XL | that compose it, by its Saracenic mosques, and by the incessant
3138 IV | Savoy, appointed consul for Sardinia in Eastern Soudan, to take
3139 Note | Balloon” is, in a measure, a satire on modern books of African
3140 XII | but this direction was satisfactory to the doctor, who desired
3141 XIX | meanwhile he had time to satisfy himself of the volcanic
3142 XXX | mechanism of a balloon to the savants of this country, and yet
3143 IV | Brun-Rollet, a native of Savoy, appointed consul for Sardinia
3144 XV | a long sabre (also with saw-like teeth), and some small battle-axes.~
3145 XV | soldiers were armed with the saw-toothed war-club, the bow and arrows
3146 V | presidency of the Regent of Saxe-Cogurg-Gotha; my friend Petermann is
3147 XXXVII | cultivated fields, upon small scaffoldings or platforms, to keep them
3148 XXVI | the party. A mouthful of scalding water from their little
3149 XX | Indians merely carry off the scalp, but these negroes take
3150 XXXV | with an enormous body, the scaly surface of which scratched
3151 VIII | the streets, the clever scamp earned a few half-crowns,
3152 XVIII | Thereupon there was a general scamper. The natives plunged headlong
3153 XXXV | had he to blush for the scantiness of his costume, for he saw
3154 X | cylindrical iron box with a scape-pipe, with a valve operating
3155 XIX | not many camels; they are scarce, if not altogether unknown,
3156 XXII | savages have got a fine scare, and we shall save him!
3157 XV | these natives are a little scared at first; but they won’t
3158 XXII | wasted body, covered with scars and wounds, still bleeding
3159 XXIV | of coming so far to find scenery just like England? Here’
3160 XXIII | those fissures of slaty schist without finding peptites
3161 I | company with the brothers Schlagintweit, and bringing back some
3162 XLIX | Athens and Rome, had her schools of learned men, and her
3163 XLIII | bushes and some coarse grass, scorched by the sun.~The Victoria
3164 XXVI | forty degrees!”~“The sand scorches me,” said the hunter, “as
3165 XXXV | westward.~His body bore in scores of places the marks of the
3166 XXIII | despairingly.~“The infamous scoundrels!” exclaimed Joe, grinding
3167 XLI | of fanatics led on by him scoured the country, sparing neither
3168 XXXVII | I leaped the hedges; I scrambled over the fences; I dug my
3169 XLIII | replied Joe. “One gets out of scrapes then, and nothing is more
3170 XLII | naked feet, so as not to scratch the covering, he succeeded
3171 XVIII | on an island!” said Joe, scratching as though he’d tear his
3172 XXVII | rim of the car.~“Ah!” he screamed, raising himself with a
3173 X | form of a helicoidal or screw-shaped spiral, the rings of which,
3174 XXXIV | no other choice than to scud before the storm. He folded
3175 XIX | cutting the anchor-rope and scudding away before the gale. At
3176 XL | had been swept with the scythe. One would have thought
3177 IX | This was not Joe’s first sea-voyage, and so, for his part, he
3178 IX | talk about Neptune, where seafaring men get a jovial reception,
3179 XVI | the torrents formed in the season of freshets, or from ponds
3180 III | The two friends took their seats opposite to each other,
3181 II | existence of Dr. Ferguson; secondly, as to the trip itself,
3182 V | friend Petermann is its secretary; a national subscription
3183 XV | the cylinder warm so as to secure a sufficient ascensional
3184 XVIII | Joe even came back, from securing the anchor in the tree,
3185 XIX | with the fine down of its seeds; the pungent odors of the
3186 | seeming
3187 XLIX | the appearance of these seemingly basaltic summits; they stood
3188 XVIII | torrents came plunging and seething down, and the eye could
3189 XV | into the tree, intending to seize the rope and bring the machine
3190 XIII | of the atmosphere?”~“Very seldom: the height of the African
3191 V | Edinburgh for a certain selection of heavy clothing, and his
3192 III | had a friend—not another self, indeed, an alter ego, for
3193 I | himself moderate, sublime, and self-contained, in one; he had uttered
3194 XLIII | of crossing this gulf was self-evident, and Kennedy could not restrain
3195 XXXVII | Kennedy.~“Your devotion and self-forgetfulness were sublime, my brave lad,
3196 XXIV | retained all the coolness and self-possession of a disciplined heart.
3197 I | extent, I verily believe, of Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe), whom
3198 XIV | there are less addicted to selling members of their own families,
3199 XVII | grouped themselves in a semicircle around the extremity of
3200 XXVI | the mean time, if Heaven sends you a good wind, you need
3201 XLI | In 1854 a Marabout of the Senegalese Fouta, Al-Hadji by name,
3202 XXXVIII| travelled across the deserts of Senegambia, and ascended as far as
3203 XXI | He must think that his senses deceived him; that he heard
3204 VII | atmosphere is extremely sensitive. The loss of an almost insignificant
3205 XV | understood them, shouted some sentences in Arabic, at a venture,
3206 XI | clock in the evening, while sentinels kept close watch around
3207 VII | future moment, was packed up, separately, along with a very strong
3208 XLI | to cross the chain which separates the basin of the Niger from
3209 XLII | besides, if we did, instead of separating, we should keep together,
3210 XVI | it on the spirals of the serpentine siphon.~The tempests of
3211 XVI | her leave! She came near serving us an ugly trick. But say,
3212 VIII | The Doctor’s Scientific Sessions.— Duveyrier.—Livingstone.—
3213 XIV | expected to have the scent of a setter or a greyhound.~A herd of
3214 XLI | before us. Then the French settlers, who occupy the colony of
3215 VII | CHAPTER SEVENTH.~Geometrical Details.—Calculation
3216 XXXIII | with him one hundred and seventy pounds of ballast, for unforeseen
3217 VII | and the vertical diameter seventy-five feet. He thus obtained a
3218 XLIV | edition of three hundred and seventy-seven thousand copies on the day
3219 VII | therefore only two hundred and seventy-six pounds—a difference of three
3220 XXXV | a yelling crowd of both sexes, and all ages and sizes,
3221 VII | thermometers, two compasses, a sextant, two chronometers, an artificial
3222 XIV | animal of a pale-bluish color shading upon the gray, but with
3223 XV | of an hour later, through shady paths, surrounded by all
3224 XXVII | was agitated like the sea shaken by the fury of a tempest;
3225 XV | and graces, his leaps and shakes and contortions; they did
3226 XIX | fellows—gracious! I’d die of shame!”~“Well, then, Joe,” said
3227 XVII | length; and in these the shanks of the anchor had firmly
3228 XV | the rhinoceros’-teeth, the shark’s-teeth, the honey, the
3229 XXIV | their fall, had scattered in sharp-edged pebbles which soon again
3230 XII | prisoner’s neck, stopped to sharpen his knife, and fairly tore
3231 XII | keen, open air had mightily sharpened his appetite.~“Good idea,
3232 XLII | between the trees. He looked sharply and turned his night-glass
3233 XIV | sinuosities of a pretty sharply-inclined plane, and swept very close
3234 XXIV | Globe appeared in ridges of sharply-jutting rock. These symptoms of
3235 XXX | Kennedy, who was watching him, shattered the uplifted weapon in the
3236 XVII | certain height, looked like a shaven lawn, but the growth of
3237 IX | would only be a little shaver of four and a half.”~“Blazes!
3238 XV | their badges of conical shellwork, came boldly forward. They
3239 XL | one among them stood some shepherds’ huts, but it had become
3240 VI | superb in it, without the shield.~“One hundred and twenty
3241 XXXVII | moreover capricious gusts. It shifted abruptly from south to north,
3242 IX | the Southern Cross that shines up there in the Creator’
3243 IX | as that?” said one of the ship-boys, gaping with wonder. “Why,
3244 VIII | balloon. The latter was shipped with the greatest precaution
3245 XXIV | still at that point where ships were before the invention
3246 I | trials. They had escaped shipwreck; conflagration; Indian tomahawks
3247 I | criticised the ideas of the shipwrecked sailor, and sometimes discussed
3248 XXX | with their five or six shirts swathed around their bodies!
3249 XIII | no longer felt a single shiver of the fever, but partook
3250 XXXIV | Victoria sped by like a shooting-star, and in this way traversed
3251 XIX | nearness of the shore—green shoots peeping up timidly between
3252 XXIV | to put ourselves on the shortest allowance.”~“Put us on short
3253 XVII | and, so saying, Dick, shouldering his gun, plunged into the
3254 XII | insects. The huzzaing and shouting were little by little lost
3255 XXXIV | privations.”~“I think the wind shows some symptoms of moderating;
3256 XV | charming disorder—are the showy stuffs, the glass beads,
3257 XXV | moisture. The doctor’s heart shrank within him, and he was about
3258 XXXIII | great confidence in his shrewdness and skill.”~“I hope so.
3259 XXVII | a voice no longer human shrieked:~“There! there—off there!”~
3260 XXXIV | hues, and the moaning and shrieking sounded over all, a terrible
3261 XXVI | to work, and the balloon, shrinking together, gently descended
3262 XXV | palm-trees.~They were two shrivelled, stunted, dried-up specimens
3263 V | our’ ascensions.”~Dick shuddered at them, although he was
3264 X | produce in the midst of this shut-up gas are, of themselves,
3265 XX | resumed the doctor, “with shutting up the criminal in his own
3266 XX | Faugh!” uttered Joe, “it’s sickening.”~The balloon rose as it
3267 IX | military get the best of the sidewalk to such an extent that folks
3268 XLIX | quarter, is the Mosque of Sidi-Yahia and some two-story houses.
3269 XLIX | we to strike it between Sierra Leone and Portendick. There
3270 XVII | anchor-rope.~“What’s the use of sighing over it, Dick?” said the
3271 XXIII | brave fellow, heaving deep sighs, began at last to lighten
3272 XXX | toward nine o’clock, they sighted the larger city of Mosfeia,
3273 XI | convenient spot, near the signal-mast, close by an immense building,
3274 XIII | thing I notice, I’ll fire a signal-shot, and with that you must
3275 XXV | remains for us but to make signals; take the flag, Kennedy,
3276 XLIV | the 24th of May, 1862.~“(Signed), “SAMUEL FERGUSON~“RICHARD
3277 V | contented himself with a significant shrug of the shoulders.~
3278 XIII | Rubeho, the name of which signifies, in the language of the
3279 XLIV | would have no objection to signing a certificate of the fact,
3280 VIII | the Aerial Voyage.—Kennedy silenced.~About the 10th of February,
3281 XIX | sharp thorns; the bombax, or silk-cotton-tree, filled the wind, as it
3282 XLI | hollowed large cavities in the silken surface.~Kennedy could not
3283 XXXVII | there, glistening in the silvery rays. The doctor took a
3284 XV | euphorbium, the cutlass, the “sima,” a long sabre (also with
3285 IX | there is little or no similarity between the two cases. Air
3286 XXXVI | strangling him with his sinewy hands and fingers of steel,
3287 XV | braying of donkeys, the singing of women, the squalling
3288 XVI | lowering masses assumed a most sinister and threatening look. Quite
3289 XIV | so adroitly followed the sinuosities of a pretty sharply-inclined
3290 XVI | spirals of the serpentine siphon.~The tempests of the tropics
3291 XLI | balloon, like another rock of Sisyphus, kept continually sinking
3292 XXVIII | for Joe, you would not be sitting here, to-day, discoursing
3293 VIII | the doctor held regular sittings, with lectures on geographical
3294 VIII | implements, he had two of Colt’s six-shooters, for unforeseen emergencies.
3295 VII | feet in horizontal, and sixty-eight feet in vertical diameter.
3296 XXVI | afloat, one hundred and sixty-two cubic feet of gas had been
3297 XXXIII | suspended on a small, thin skewer, was hung over a fire of
3298 XIX | acquitting himself very skilfully in performing that operation.~
3299 III | above it; a torrent, I can skim it like a bird! I can advance
3300 XIX | appendages belonged to the skins of animals that they wore
3301 IX | moon. But we’re going to skip round among those little
3302 XIII | opposite to the Rubeho, skirting an acclivity covered with
3303 XI | so that the seamen had to slacken the ropes they held it by.
3304 IV | their attendants beaten and slain, they arrived at Kazeh,
3305 XXXII | clock, the Victoria, having slanted across this part of the
3306 XIX | necessary to seek a more slanting current.~“My friends,” said
3307 XXIII | among those fissures of slaty schist without finding peptites
3308 XI | profited nothing by their slaughtered sheep and their ugly grimaces.~
3309 XV | enclosed a few houses and slave-huts, with little courtyards
3310 XXXVIII| five hundred miles with a slave-merchant, reconnoitred the Gambia
3311 XXXV | of dampness awakened the sleeper. Ere long this dampness
3312 XVI | shouted Ferguson.~The two sleepers, aroused by the terrible
3313 XXV | wind is afraid to blow; it sleeps.”~“That will not last forever,”
3314 XIX | chance to get us a good slice of venison.”~
3315 XXVII | rushed toward the well, slid down the dampened steps,
3316 XVIII | could be seen a low and but slightly-diversified coast, and, farther away
3317 XLII | on with one hand to that slippery surface, while he detached
3318 XXXVIII| above the level of the sea, sloped down toward the south. Our
3319 XIX | hand, sallied out upon the sloping plain. Ere long, he returned
3320 XLII | fatigue, he sank back and slumbered.~How long he had been buried
3321 XXXVIII| sixty miles, the gentle slumbers of an infant would not have
3322 XXIII | up a piece of quartz, the smallest in the lot, weighed and
3323 VI | several journeys, and had a smattering of science appropriate to
3324 XVII | jackals, attracted by the smell of the dead elephant, were
3325 XIII | mentions, could be distinctly smelt.~“According to his statement,
3326 XXII | himself up a little, and smiled with pleasure at seeing
3327 XV | chattered merrily as they smoked their tobacco and “thang”
3328 XXX | quiet might conceal some snare.~And he had reason to be
3329 XIV | flavor that’s not to be sneezed at, I tell you.”~“Good!”
3330 XIV | and sudden motion as they sniffed the wind in the direction
3331 XXXVIII| where the pintadoes and snipes went sailing and diving
3332 XIX | huge forms, splashing and snorting as they frolicked in the
3333 XVII | the mark of the eternal snows.~“Here we are at last,”
3334 VI | shape! What a nice car! How snug we’ll feel in it!”~“Then
3335 XVIII | it rested with its anchor snugly secured in the fissure of
3336 II | number of the Bulletins de la Societe Geographique of Geneva,
3337 I | of the Royal Geographical Societies of London, Paris, Berlin,
3338 XXVI | Their eyes swelled in their sockets, and their gaze became confused.~
3339 IV | plunged into the west, visited Sockoto, crossed the Niger, and
3340 VI | without forgetting your socks or your linen; who has charge
3341 XLI | gutta percha has evidently softened or melted in the heat, and
3342 XXIII | night which sent to him its softest radiance; on the way to
3343 III | doctor’s modest dwelling, in Soho Square, Greek Street. Forthwith
3344 XXX | excellent request, and can be sold at lucrative rates.~At the
3345 I | several affairs; but this soldier’s life had not exactly suited
3346 X | of the cylinder produces solely the vapor or steam of water.
3347 VII | the constant object of his solicitude.~At the outset, in order
3348 XVII | without danger or fatigue,” he soliloquized; “your meals when you please;
3349 IX | I have not been able to solve the problem with the appliances
3350 IX | this problem is not yet solved; this means has not yet
3351 | somewhere
3352 XV | receive us!”~The clamor, the songs and demonstrations of all
3353 XXXVIII| tamarind-trees.~Such was the Sonray country, with its villages
3354 XLIX | succession to the Touaregs, the Sonrayans, the Morocco men, and the
3355 XXVII | constitution yielded the soonest to these unnatural privations.~
3356 XIV | struck in their guttural soprano, redoubled by the yelping
3357 XI | driven off.~Thereupon the sorceries and incantations commenced;
3358 XXXV | that long, fatiguing day of sore foot-travel, his confident
3359 XXIV | resting upon him pressed sorely, but he did not allow his
3360 I | or morally, undergone the sorest trials. They had escaped
3361 XIX | of the field, cultivating sorgho, a kind of millet which
3362 XXVI | That would only be adding sorrow to trouble. It was written
3363 XXXVII | forests of acacias, mimosas, souahs, and date-trees. After the
3364 XIX | sterculier, which produces the Soudan-nut; the baobab, and the banana-tree,
3365 IX | strength, its life-blood, its soul, if I may use the expression.”~“
3366 XXII | with amazement.~“They are souls to redeem! ignorant and
3367 XXXIV | the moaning and shrieking sounded over all, a terrible accompaniment
3368 XXVIII | turn, dropped off into the soundest slumber.~On the next day
3369 III | with five good, hearty, sounding raps at the door.~Ferguson
3370 XXXV | superb banquet consisting of sour milk and rice pounded in
3371 XIV | Africa, where, thanks to a south-southeasterly current, the travellers
3372 IX | ard, so as to double the southernmost point of Africa, and enter
3373 XVIII | savant among the mountains of Spain, when he was measuring the
3374 XIII | flight, driven along by a spanking breeze.~Only a few scattered
3375 XLI | him scoured the country, sparing neither a village nor a
3376 XVI | zebra’s hide, with electric sparks, which danced and flickered
3377 XV | answered in that language.~The speaker below then delivered himself
3378 XXI | standing erect, making a speaking-trumpet of his hands, he shouted
3379 XX | one hand he plunged his spear into the compact ranks of
3380 X | a provision for cases of special emergency, such as the breakage
3381 XVIII | the anchor in the tree, speckled with bites, but he kept
3382 XVI | enjoyed one of the grandest spectacles that Nature can offer to
3383 XLIX | our aeronauts became the spectators of a magnificent scene.~
3384 XXVII | doctor rose up erect, like a spectre, and glared around him.~
3385 VIII | right as anybody else to speculate upon the admiration and
3386 XXXIV | last line of vegetation was speedily lost in the dim southern
3387 XXXVI | the Victoria was rapidly speeding far beyond their reach.~“
3388 VII | feet. He thus obtained a spheroid, the capacity of which amounted,
3389 XXXI | twenty miles.”~“It will spice our trip with a little variety
3390 XVI | forests in bloom redolent of spicy perfumes presented themselves
3391 XXXIII | hesitate at first, and went spinning around, like a top; but
3392 XVI | cylinder, and turned it on the spirals of the serpentine siphon.~
3393 XIX | bathed their huge forms, splashing and snorting as they frolicked
3394 VI | Ferguson?”~“I don’t want to spoil your illusions, my good
3395 XX | fought for these hideous spoils.~“What a frightful scene!”
3396 XVII | with it one of the animal’s spongy feet. In fact, these are
3397 XXXI | and in their gambols they sported about among the many green
3398 XVI | them in his way.~“What a sporting country!” exclaimed Dick,
3399 XVI | sometimes, in the tall grass; spreading forests in bloom redolent
3400 XXXVI | Joe, who had immediately sprung up after his fall, just
3401 XXXVII | my strength back with my spunk, and I walked on part of
3402 XXII | two years his faith was spurned, his zeal denied recognition,
3403 XLIII | hundred feet.~The Talabas spurred their horses, which now
3404 XLIII | be much excited, and were spurring their horses.~The doctor
3405 XVIII | his opinion, are direct spurs of the Mountains of the
3406 XLII | mingled with the hissing and sputtering of the green branches; the
3407 XXXII | the doctor, snatching his spyglass.~“I see them,” replied Kennedy; “
3408 XXXVII | Consequently we have nothing to squabble about in the whole affair.”~“
3409 XIII | We should be in continual squabbles with our guides and porters,
3410 XXXVI | mistaken. It is, indeed, a squadron of horsemen. Look—look there!”~
3411 XV | the singing of women, the squalling of children, and the banging
3412 XXXII | the rich quarter stands squarely with its airy and lofty
3413 XXXII | dwellings, and on the public squares, grew palms and caoutchouc-trees
3414 XII | exclamations.~“Out upon stage-coaches!” said one.~“Steamers indeed!”
3415 VIII | Resolute were in waiting at the stairs of Westminster Bridge. The
3416 XIX | feet in length upon its stalk, the latter studded with
3417 XLIII | Kennedy; “and they are rough, stalwart fellows.”~“Happily those
3418 VIII | Gentlemen,” replied the hunter, stammering with confusion, “I greatly—
3419 XXX | residence, displaying his green standard, and accompanied by his
3420 XXXVIII| night they go by the polar star. They never travel more
3421 IX | one of the crowd, with a stare of amazement.~“To the moon!”
3422 XXXV | of vermin that sat there staring at him with huge round eyes.
3423 X | distance apart. The one starts among the upper layers of
3424 XXVIII | would, at last, have to starve to death!~But he took fresh
3425 VIII | February, in the evening. Two state-rooms, comfortably fitted up,
3426 XXIV | Anxieties. —The Situation flatly stated.—Energetic Replies of Kennedy
3427 XXV | beauty, isn’t she?— and how stately her movements as she sweeps
3428 II | gone through the United States, proposed to “do” the British
3429 XXXIV | the word, Kennedy took his station, spy-glass in hand, at the
3430 XXII | evening the balloon remained stationary in the midst of the gloom,
3431 XI | and on its platform were stationed Belootchees, armed with
3432 I | Institute, where his friend the statistician Cockburn ruled in state.~
3433 III | in “The Monastery”; his stature was above six feet; full
3434 XXX | the utmost celerity, and stayed there, so that the streets
3435 XIX | hauls the balloon in their stead; and so on through the story.
3436 XVI | latter whirled and swung, but steadily ascended, and, ere the hour
3437 XXIII | another sort now began to steal over the doctor’s mind.
3438 XV | from their hiding-places stealthily, thrusting their heads out
3439 XII | stage-coaches!” said one.~“Steamers indeed!” said the other.~“
3440 XII | few moments later, three steaming cups of coffee were served,
3441 IX | s job. On the morrow, he steered away to the south’ard, so
3442 I | Ruppel, Saugnier, Speke, Steidner, Thibaud, Thompson, Thornton,
3443 XI | speech was answered with stentorian cheers of “Huzza for the
3444 XIX | palm-shaped leaves; the sterculier, which produces the Soudan-nut;
3445 XVII | piled up a second heap of sticks over all, and when it had
3446 XXXV | despairing, unaided, half stifled already by the rising mire,
3447 XXV | purity of sky, the same stillness of the atmosphere. The balloon
3448 XXXVI | After he had swallowed the stimulant, Joe grasped the hands of
3449 IX | imaginations of the seamen stimulated by Joe’s harangues.~Our
3450 XIII | frequently intolerable, and the stings of a kind of fly whose bite
3451 XXVIII | Bruce was a Scotchman, of Stirlingshire, who, between 1768 and 1772,
3452 XXV | are rogues about! They’ve stolen our invention!”~“Has he
3453 XXX | bodies! They had enormous stomachs, some of which actually
3454 XI | invoked the storms and the “stone-showers,” as the blacks call hail,
3455 XLI | now look for a favorable stopping-place,” said he.~“Ah!” replied
3456 XVI | over, it had passed the stormy belt. The electric display
3457 XLIX | body will find us big and stout.”~“Just like Joe,” said
3458 IX | Solemn truth!” said Joe, stoutly.~“But what can you expect?
3459 VIII | so arranged as to find a stowing-place for the balloon. The latter
3460 VII | oval, where most of the strain would come.~Such an envelope
3461 I | Continent from Behring’s Straits to Cape Farewell.~Notwithstanding
3462 XXI | were greatly excited by the strangeness of the situation. Ferguson
3463 XV | to be purchased at the strangest of bargains by customers
3464 III | making experiments with the strangest-looking machinery, inexplicable
3465 XXXVI | Fall from Horseback.—The Strangled Arab.—A Ball from Kennedy.—
3466 XXXIII | far away.~“At the first streak of day, the doctor aroused
3467 XXXIV | into the desert of sand streaked with the long tracks of
3468 XXX | in a blaze. Hundreds of streaks of flame crossed each other,
3469 XVII | water from a neighboring streamlet.~The repast thus prepared
3470 VII | was made of wicker-work, strengthened with a slight covering of
3471 XXI | doctor, throwing considerable stress upon the words.~“Why, doctor,
3472 XLIII | is their work! Where vast stretches of cultivated land were
3473 XXXII | ere the huge creature, stricken dead, dropped headlong,
3474 XXX | obliged him to take the strictest precautions. He therefore
3475 XXIV | evening meal, the water was strictly measured out, and the brandy
3476 XLIII | escape by those huge aerial strides, and seeming, like the giant
3477 I | short with mere words. It strikes off money faster than the
3478 III | perceptible.~Kennedy’s countenance strikingly recalled that of Herbert
3479 XVII | Kennedy returned with a string of fat partridges and the
3480 XXXIV | Arab encampment, tents of striped stuff, some camels, stretching
3481 XXXIII | and then cut it in narrow strips so as to extricate it from
3482 XXXIII | double-barrelled fowling-piece, and strode through the long grass toward
3483 XX | off his arm at a single stroke, carried the dissevered
3484 XXIII | while, Kennedy and Joe had strolled away a few paces, looking
3485 XLIX | I wouldn’t like to be strolling alone in the evening through
3486 XI | replaced by some twenty strong-armed sailors, and Captain Bennet
3487 XXIV | back into the attitude of a strong-minded looker-on, and turned the
3488 XLI | bank of the river. This stronghold was defended by Paul Holl,
3489 XXXVII | horizon a collection of structures that looked like a town.
3490 XXVII | grating voice—and then the two struggled desperately for the rifle.~“
3491 XXXV | in spite of his desperate struggles, he felt himself sinking
3492 XXXI | the animals in creation strutting along under the muzzle of
3493 III | of the world.”~Even the stubborn Kennedy began to feel moved,
3494 IV | departure had been carefully studied, and it was not without
3495 I | intelligence by serious studies in hydrography, physics,
3496 XV | charming disorder—are the showy stuffs, the glass beads, the ivory
3497 XXXVII | the chance to sleep most sturdily for twenty-four hours at
3498 XXXVIII| to his worth.”~“He was a sturdy fellow!” said Kennedy, “
3499 I | participating in Captain Sturt’s expedition, which had
3500 I | happy as a king without subjects— no, not if the inducement
3501 XXVI | undertake, and they had to submit to the situation, without
3502 XL | doctor’s anxiety gradually subsided.~“Two more days in this
3503 V | Gondokoro; they have received a subsidy of more than five thousand
3504 XXVIII | tribes on that continent subsisted upon raw meat, and people
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