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3505 VII | percha. This gummy, resinous substance is absolutely water-proof,
3506 V | the most varied series of subterfuges. He threw himself back upon
3507 III | and, in truth, is a mere suburb of Auld Reekie. Sometimes
3508 XLIX | of rubbish encumbered the suburbs, and, with the hill on which
3509 XXIV | would again bequeath to the succeeding night. The wind, now scarcely
3510 III | martyrdom! Because, to contend successfully against the elements; against
3511 IV | to Kouka; from there he successively traversed the Mandara, Barghimi,
3512 XXVIII | constitution this of ours to succumb to so little,” philosophized
3513 IV | death of Richardson, who had succumbed to fatigue and privation.
3514 XXII | language,” he said to the sufferer; “I understand it, and it
3515 XXXVIII| shade of color in the sand, suffice to guide them with accuracy.
3516 XI | captain yielded to these suggestions, and the Resolute was headed
3517 XXVII | of Despair.—An Attempt at Suicide.—The Simoom.—The Oasis.—
3518 I | soldier’s life had not exactly suited him; caring but little for
3519 XXXIV | informing you of it.”~And, suiting the action to the word,
3520 XIII | excellent appetite.~That beats sulphate of quinine!” said the energetic
3521 XIII | or creeping vines. The sulphuretted hydrogen emanations, which
3522 XXXVII | you are pleased to call my summerset, saved you, did it not save
3523 XII | Nguru reared aloft its sharp summit in the northwest.~The Victoria
3524 II | with entries of immense sums, as though the Epsom races
3525 XXXV | Island there was none. It had sunk during the night. In its
3526 XXXII | wings glittering in the sunlight. They might well have been
3527 XXXV | have lasted no doubt until sunrise, had not a very unexpected
3528 XVI | A View of the Country at Sunset.— Flora and Fauna.—The Tempest.—
3529 V | departure, and in person superintended the construction of his
3530 XXXIII | unless protected by their superstitions?”~“Oh, he’s just the lad
3531 XV | the foot of the ladder. A superstitious fear still held the crowd
3532 XXVII | gliding together with all the supple ease of liquid particles,
3533 XIV | come, Joe! a truce to your suppositions; they’re any thing but pleasant.”~“
3534 II | first, as to the real or supposititious existence of Dr. Ferguson;
3535 XXII | Ferguson. The latter could not suppress his emotion, for he felt
3536 XXII | and skill of a practised surgeon, and, when they were complete,
3537 XXXVIII| without eating. Their speed surpasses that of the horse, and they
3538 XXXVIII| desert;’ on the 9th, he surveyed the very spot where Major
3539 XLIV | the facts and geographical surveys reported by Messrs. Barth,
3540 IV | 6th of September, the only survivor of his party.~Such was the
3541 XXXV | pick up the unfortunate survivors of these terrible catastrophes.~
3542 XLII | least noise aroused his suspicions, and he questioned even
3543 XIII | country, and, at the least suspicious thing I notice, I’ll fire
3544 XXXII | tear the silk covering that sustains us, and we are three thousand
3545 XXII | conical huts, around which swarmed a numerous tribe.~A hundred
3546 XLIII | could be read upon their swarthy faces, made more ferocious
3547 XXX | their five or six shirts swathed around their bodies! They
3548 XVI | tops of the undergrowth sway to and fro, and you could
3549 XVI | their machine swung and swayed in all directions. Huge
3550 VIII | The latter, all the while swearing that he would not go, went
3551 XXXV | old iron, which were very sweet, no doubt, to African ears.
3552 XXIII | casting one glance at the swelling of the soil, beneath which
3553 XVIII | appearance of certain long swells that followed the sinking
3554 XXV | into gloomy meditation, sweltering the while beneath the scorching
3555 XXXVIII| southwest, and she never swerved to the right or to the left,
3556 XXXVI | fall, just as one of the swiftest horsemen rushed upon him,
3557 XVIII | mingling, contending in the swiftness of their progress, and all
3558 XXXIII | and had few equals as a swimmer. He would find no difficulty
3559 XXVI | had found him lying in a swoon.~“What has been the matter,
3560 XXII | The Frenchman, who had swooned away, at length opened his
3561 XXXIII | to their companion. They swooped down close to the long pirogues
3562 XXXII | And, in fact, they were swooping nearer, and more than one
3563 XVIII | science has been followed up, sword in hand. The same thing
3564 XIV | country, strewn with blocks of syenite of a fine polish, and knobbed
3565 XXVII | could hardly articulate a syllable.~There still remained a
3566 III | sometimes bore them apart, but sympathy always united them again.~
3567 XV | beats time to this pastoral symphony.~There, spread forth, without
3568 XXXIV | Kennedy, who sat there no less taciturn.~“We have, perhaps, been
3569 XXXVII | time to see the balloon tacking about and waiting for me.
3570 XI | from each other. Blocks and tackle, placed at their extremities,
3571 XXXII | the birds changed their tactics, and by common consent soared
3572 XXXVIII| dollars, go from Timbuctoo to Tafilet with a load of five hundred
3573 XLIII | the front, and fired. The Talaba fell headlong, and, his
3574 XII | virtues, has a remarkable talent for the preparation of that
3575 V | idioms, and, thanks to his talents as a polyglot, he had made
3576 Note | the wonderful “travellers’ tales” with which we have been
3577 XII | had, at length, become as talkative as Joe, and the two kept
3578 XXXV | Cheer up, my boy!”~Thus talking to himself and walking on
3579 XV | small gourds, coated with tallow, and several other articles
3580 XIII | gigantic clumps of sycamore, tamarind, calabash, and palmyra trees.~“
3581 XX | naturally so restive.”~“Oh! we’d tame them,” said Joe. “Instead
3582 XVI | the lightning described tangents to the convexity of her
3583 XXXVIII| Africa. At length he entered Tangiers, and on the 28th of September
3584 XLIX | fine, the whole complicated tangle of the Niger’s tributaries.
3585 XIX | and fertile, with their tangled thickets of the most various
3586 XLI | doctor.~“Let us throw out the tanks—we have emptied them.” said
3587 XIX | little of the torture of Tantalus just now. You shall make
3588 VIII | instance, one may light a taper in the car, and the flame
3589 XVI | and, like a room hung with tapestry, lost all its sonorous reverberation.
3590 XLIII | would offer only too plain a target to the bullets from their
3591 III | These newspapers are great tattlers! But, sit down, my dear
3592 XV | black-and-blue incisions they had tattooed their cheeks from the temples
3593 XXIII | have just helped to bury, taught you the vanity of human
3594 III | plate of toast and a huge tea-urn before them.~“My dear Samuel,”
3595 XIX | and accept what science teaches us. There will not always
3596 XXII | maltreatment. But still he went on teaching, instructing, and praying.
3597 XXXIII | geese, wild-duck, snipe, teal, and plover. He went to
3598 XXIV | asked this question only to tease Joe; and he did so the more
3599 XIX | toward the sun their rounded teats swollen with milk.~It was
3600 XV | disappeared within the “tembes” and the huts.~“My dear
3601 XI | got fearfully drunk on “tembo,” a kind of ardent spirits
3602 XVIII | with bites, but he kept his temper, because he found it quite
3603 I | and physique. His sanguine temperament was disclosed in the deep
3604 XXXII | the westward. A few clouds tempered the heat of the day, and,
3605 XXXVI | the westward. Driven by a tempestuous wind, it again approached
3606 XV | tattooed their cheeks from the temples to the mouth. Their ears,
3607 XXXI | been able to resist the temptation of firing at a huge hippopotamus.
3608 XXXIV | We have, perhaps, been tempting Providence,” said he; “it
3609 XXXV | first fleeting and then tenacious, arose in his mind. He knew
3610 I | conjectured whether these tendencies were developed during a
3611 XXII | surrounded him with the tenderest and most intelligent care,
3612 XIV | and the best parts of the tenderloin from the carcass of the
3613 XXII | each other in carefully tending the sick man, Ferguson kept
3614 XXXV | was obliged to fasten a tendril of wild-vine tightly about
3615 XVIII | Ousagara, and, farther on, at Tenga, encountered the first projections
3616 XLIII | But this situation had to terminate. It was now nearly noon;
3617 XXXIII | Around this fragment of terra firma grew reeds as lofty
3618 XXXV | he began now to suffer terribly from hunger. His stomach,
3619 XL | reach the English or French territories, what was to become of him
3620 XLII | and during which vague terrors mount to the brain. At the
3621 VII | himself with three thoroughly tested iron anchors, and a light
3622 VI | an excellent fellow, who testified the most absolute confidence
3623 XV | smoked their tobacco and “thang” in huge black pipes. They
3624 XXXV | eyes, not of grief but of thankfulness; his master was then seeking
3625 XV | of veranda, formed by the thatched roof, adorned the outside,
3626 XIV | close to the villages of Thembo and Tura-Wels. The latter
3627 | therein
3628 | thereof
3629 XXXII | heat of the sun, and made thereon some pious reflections which
3630 XXXIV | swallowed up, and added thereto are unendurable fatigues
3631 I | Saugnier, Speke, Steidner, Thibaud, Thompson, Thornton, Toole,
3632 XVI | the impending storm: the thickened air actually seemed no longer
3633 XIII | fly whose bite pierces the thickest cloth, and drives the victim
3634 VII | sheet-iron chests two lines in thickness. These were connected by
3635 XXXI | stomach and between the thighs. Dick’s ball hasn’t even
3636 XLIX | collection of billiard-balls and thimbles—such is the bird’s-eye view!
3637 II | contemplated, according to others; thirdly, upon the success or failure
3638 XIII | CHAPTER THIRTEENTH.~Change of Weather.—Kennedy
3639 XXX | CHAPTER THIRTIETH.~Mosfeia.—The Sheik.—Denham,
3640 XII | and soon were passing in thirty-eight degrees twenty minutes east
3641 XXXVIII| CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHTH.~A Rapid Passage.—Prudent
3642 XXXV | CHAPTER THIRTY-FIFTH.~What happened to Joe.—The
3643 XXXI | CHAPTER THIRTY-FIRST.~Departure in the Night-time.—
3644 XXXIV | CHAPTER THIRTY-FOURTH.~The Hurricane.—A Forced
3645 XXXVIII| He died at the age of thirty-nine, from the consequences of
3646 XLIX | CHAPTER THIRTY-NINTH.~The Country in the Elbow
3647 XXXII | CHAPTER THIRTY-SECOND.~The Capital of Bornou.—
3648 XXXVI | CHAPTER THIRTY-SIXTH.~A Throng of People on the
3649 I | Speke, Steidner, Thibaud, Thompson, Thornton, Toole, Tousny,
3650 XXVIII | ejaculated with the contempt of a thorough-bred sportsman for game already
3651 XXXVII | my heels into my nag; I thrashed him; I fairly lifted the
3652 XIII | rivers get to look like threads, and the lakes dwindle to
3653 VIII | violent currents of air threaten to carry me out of my way
3654 XI | was unwilling to yield to threats, but his friend dissuaded
3655 XIII | involved no danger, and only three-fourths of the vast capacity of
3656 II | Ferguson, and the heart, thrice panoplied in bronze, that
3657 I | passing through English throats. Indeed, the hall fairly
3658 XXIV | the plain, like the last throes of exhausted Nature. Scanty
3659 XI | and down among the angry throngs, pouring fuel on the flame
3660 XVIII | a monster that can hurl thunderbolts when he pleases.”~But, all
3661 XI | carronades on board the Resolute thundered forth a parting salute in
3662 XLIII | hundred and fifty, with a thundering reverberation. It ran, where
3663 I | there, quite unmoved by the thunders of applause that greeted
3664 XXIV | straight line.~The next day was Thursday, the 1st of May, but the
3665 XXX | our ease.”~“What is that tick-tacking sound that we hear on all
3666 XIV | broils.~“There, those will tickle the doctor!” said Kennedy.~“
3667 XXVIII | mystifying some learned sage tickled Joe hugely, and made him
3668 XVIII | To land here would be a ticklish matter!” said the Scot.~“
3669 XIX | They had, at last, to be tied up with cords, Joe acquitting
3670 XVI | lions, leopards, hyenas, and tigers, were then crouching for
3671 XXXV | fasten a tendril of wild-vine tightly about his waist. Fortunately,
3672 IV | Abyssinia, traversed the Tigre, visited the ruins of Axum,
3673 XXXV | m not going to wait here till it’s up to my neck!”~And,
3674 XVIII | some ravines seemed under tillage; the surface, dotted with
3675 XXXVII | I got to the end of the tilled land. Good! There was the
3676 XIX | green shoots peeping up timidly between pebbles that were,
3677 I | mechanics, along with a slight tincture of botany, medicine, and
3678 XV | negresses, who seemed never to tire of looking at him. Besides,
3679 XLIV | undertake it. It gets very tiresome at the last, and if it hadn’
3680 XL | it against the well-worn tissue of the balloon.~He made
3681 XIII | convulsed appearance told of Titanic travail in the earliest
3682 XIX | one and all, under the title of Nyam-Nyams, and this
3683 XXXVIII| Egghirreou, Quorra, and other titles besides, it traverses an
3684 III | little table with a plate of toast and a huge tea-urn before
3685 XVII | exquisite. Old England was toasted, as usual, and delicious
3686 IX | in that country you’d be toddling after your mammy yet, and
3687 IX | said a sailor who liked his toddy.~“Not a drop!” was Joe’s
3688 XI | heady sort of beer called “togwa.” Their chants, which were
3689 XLIX | busied with the domestic toil outside, milking their camels
3690 XIX | shall be enabled to link the toils of Captains Burton and Speke
3691 XVIII | while Dr. Ferguson, in token of success, waved the English
3692 IV | the city could not long be tolerated, and the Foullans threatened
3693 I | shipwreck; conflagration; Indian tomahawks and war-clubs; the fagot
3694 XXII | place of a half-effaced tonsure.~“A missionary! a priest!”
3695 XIX | that the whole thing is the top-flower of fancy, but has nothing
3696 XIV | making their way to the topmost branches. The danger seemed
3697 XII | sharpen his knife, and fairly tore away the poor wretch’s head
3698 IV | death in the most cruel torment.~In 1859, in the month of
3699 VIII | Captain Bennet. “There are tornadoes that sweep at the rate of
3700 XXVI | in slumber, at least in torpor, to forget their situation,
3701 XIV | extent, like an immense tortoise.~“We are on the right track,”
3702 XXXV | pangs of the itching that tortured his whole body; and, chewing
3703 XXII | as we saved you from the tortures of the stake.”~“I do not
3704 XXXVIII| crossing the desert.~These Touareg camels are of the very best
3705 XXXVIII| of September sailed for Toulon. In nineteen months, notwithstanding
3706 XII | longitude, over the village of Tounda.~“It was there,” said the
3707 XLIX | borders of Loch Lomond, and tourists would rush there in crowds.”~“
3708 I | Thompson, Thornton, Toole, Tousny, Trotter, Tuckey, Tyrwhitt,
3709 XIX | to the car, and make them tow us along. What do you say
3710 XIX | the camels, swallows the tow-rope, and hauls the balloon in
3711 XI | the east winds. This huge tower, resembling a tun standing
3712 XLI | crest of the mountain still towered above it. It was an almost
3713 XVIII | suits me,” said Kennedy, toying with his pet rifle.~“And
3714 XXXIV | surrounded by an escort armed and trained for these expeditions. Yet,
3715 VIII | rapidity of our railroad trains, by travelling day and night,
3716 XLII | talk,” said Joe; “a little tramp won’t do us any harm.”~“
3717 XXIII | Those blocks which you are trampling under foot, like worthless
3718 XXVII | the sky resumed its former tranquillity.~The balloon, which had
3719 V | of the latter having been transferred to Mr. Muntzinger.~“Well,”
3720 XXXIV | pallid with emotion, sat transfixed by this fearful spectacle.
3721 XIV | and these were quickly transformed to the most savory of broils.~“
3722 XVI | no longer adapted to the transmission of sound; the atmosphere
3723 XVII | navigation on this green, almost transparent sea, gently undulating in
3724 III | Government has placed a transport at my disposal, and three
3725 II | British Government placed the transport-ship Resolute, Captain Bennett,
3726 XI | balloon, by the aid of a transverse rope. It was then entirely
3727 III | and I—”~“Where are your traps? Let me have a chance at
3728 XIII | appearance told of Titanic travail in the earliest epoch of
3729 XVI | four thousand years she travailed, she grew pregnant, she
3730 XIII | you’ve any drug in your travelling-chest that will set me on my feet
3731 XXI | water, and, searching in his travelling-sack, brought forth two pieces
3732 XI | cordage, the instruments, the travelling-wraps, the awning, the provisions,
3733 XXXVIII| other titles besides, it traverses an immense extent of country,
3734 XXIV | it not like attempting to tread forbidden paths? Was he
3735 XXVII | eager glance, seized the treasured store, and bore it to his
3736 XIX | tradition, it is said to tremble the instant that a Mussulman
3737 V | intended, and the doctor trembled with impatience.~“Are you
3738 XIX | We are now beginning to trench upon the realm of modern
3739 XV | a great number of small tresses, fell over their shoulders,
3740 I | morally, undergone the sorest trials. They had escaped shipwreck;
3741 XVIII | by the sultan. He made a triangulation of this part of the lake,
3742 XVI | near serving us an ugly trick. But say, master, did you
3743 XIX | woody slopes of the hills trickled cascades and springs flowing
3744 XXXVIII| swallowed up; and whoever tries to draw water from it, feels
3745 XXIII | you help to gather up a trifle of all these millions?”~“
3746 I | Society. He was above all such trifles, having no pride, and less
3747 XIV | and their fingers on the trigger. There was no foreseeing
3748 XV | export cotton, glassware, and trinkets, to the tribes of the great
3749 XLII | severe exertion, and the trio partook of a luncheon of
3750 XX | gathered up these bloody trophies, and piled them together
3751 XVI | siphon.~The tempests of the tropics develop with a rapidity
3752 VIII | about, with delight. He trotted incessantly to and fro between
3753 I | Thornton, Toole, Tousny, Trotter, Tuckey, Tyrwhitt, Vaudey,
3754 XXXV | relieved himself of the most troublesome part of his clothing. The
3755 XIV | us?”~“Come, come, Joe! a truce to your suppositions; they’
3756 III | reflecting; “the trade-winds—yes—truly—one might—there’s something
3757 XXX | preceded by couriers and trumpeters, who put aside the boughs
3758 XXXVII | gold! we were not astray in trusting to your intelligence and
3759 X | this tank is a platinum tube provided with a stopcock.~“
3760 X | hermetically closed, issue two tubes a little distance apart.
3761 XXXV | exalted idea of how the gods tuck away their food upon grand
3762 I | Toole, Tousny, Trotter, Tuckey, Tyrwhitt, Vaudey, Veyssiere,
3763 XXXVIII| fragment of rock, a pebble, a tuft of grass, a different shade
3764 XVII | too!” said Joe, who was tugging at the rope.~“It’s the rock,
3765 V | more, and I should have tumbled into the lake.”~“Very good!
3766 XVIII | excitement, rushing to and fro, tumultuously, in the villages that lined
3767 XII | Joe’s unpoetical change of tune, at last, for the keen,
3768 IV | investigations farther, arrived at Tunis and Tripoli, like their
3769 XIV | the villages of Thembo and Tura-Wels. The latter forms part of
3770 XVIII | winding gorge gave exit to a turbulent and foaming river.~While
3771 I | voice, with a malicious twang.~“Why, then, we’d have to
3772 XV | beating of drums, and the twanging of horns, the neighing of
3773 XX | CHAPTER TWENTIETH.~The Celestial Bottle.—The
3774 XXXIII | doctor got a total weight of twenty-eight hundred and thirty pounds.
3775 XXVIII | CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHTH.~An Evening of Delight.—
3776 XXV | CHAPTER TWENTY-FIFTH.~A Little Philosophy.—A
3777 XXI | CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST.~Strange Sounds.—A Night
3778 XXIV | CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURTH.~The Wind dies away.—The
3779 XVII | noon the Victoria was at twenty-nine degrees fifteen minutes
3780 IV | the Nile with a retinue of twenty-one hired men and twenty soldiers,
3781 XXII | CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND.~The Jet of Light.—The Missionary.—
3782 XXVII | CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENTH.~Terrific Heat.—Hallucinations.—
3783 XXVI | CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXTH.~One Hundred and Thirteen
3784 XXIII | CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD.~Joe in a Fit of Rage.—The
3785 IX | round among those little twinklers up there—the stars—and the
3786 XXXIV | when, after a last violent twirl, the Victoria stopped suddenly
3787 XVII | himself up for a moment, twirling his trunk in the air, and
3788 XV | jigs that ever was seen, twisting, turning, and jerking himself
3789 XXXII | already grasped one of the two-barrelled fowling-pieces and Joe was
3790 XLIX | Mosque of Sidi-Yahia and some two-story houses. But do not look
3791 XV | demonstrations of all kinds increased twofold, and the whole immense ants’
3792 XXVIII | Abyssinia, as far as Lake Tyana, in search of the sources
3793 III | Ferguson; perfect calmness typified in Kennedy—such was the
3794 I | Tousny, Trotter, Tuckey, Tyrwhitt, Vaudey, Veyssiere, Vincent,
3795 XII | time to pick up the game.~* U and Ou signify country in
3796 XLIX | landscape for the ‘Mysteries of Udolpho’!” exclaimed the doctor. “
3797 XVIII | the elevated plains of the Uganda and the Usoga. At length,
3798 IX | Blazes! that’s a good ’un!” shouted the whole forecastle
3799 XXI | made off, that they are unacquainted with fire-arms. We must,
3800 XXXV | but his voice, despairing, unaided, half stifled already by
3801 III | reciprocal service. Hence, an unalterable friendship. Destiny sometimes
3802 II | stake.~Thus, believers and unbelievers, the learned and the ignorant,
3803 XIII | completely exposed to their unbridled brutality. During the daytime,
3804 XVII | rifle several times at these unceremonious visitors, but the night
3805 XLII | quarter of the moon, whose uncertain rays scarcely pierced the
3806 I | moreover, he disclosed uncommon address in extricating himself
3807 XVII | knees bent under him, and he uncovered his whole flank to the assaults
3808 XLIX | covered with broom-corn and uncultivated plains. All kinds of aquatic
3809 XLIII | with an energetic accent of undaunted daring, exclaimed—~“All
3810 XLIV | Society of London:~“We, the undersigned, do hereby declare that,
3811 VI | resistance, said, in an undertone:~“Oh! well, that doesn’t
3812 XXXV | reliance on his master remained undiminished. Great energy of character
3813 XXXIII | islands with every symptom of undisguised affright.~“We can see nothing,”
3814 XIX | the night was passed in undisturbed and refreshing slumber.~
3815 XXXV | for he saw that he was in “undress” in the highest style of
3816 XI | covered with its network, undulated gracefully above its car,
3817 XXIII | stir an inch.~Joe looked on uneasily, but kept silent.~“Joe!”
3818 XXXIV | coming, now seemed tossed and uneven, like the ocean-billows
3819 XV | leave this at any moment, unexpectedly, and be off with extra speed.
3820 XIII | Africa that some of the unhealthiest districts lie close beside
3821 XXXVIII| of the weather, and the unhealthiness of the country, only eleven
3822 XXI | our guns, he recognized an unhoped-for assistance, a providential
3823 XXVI | Dick, that our wings are unhurt, and I hope that we shall
3824 XX | but then, if they had uniforms they’d be just like the
3825 XI | rope. It was then entirely uninflated. The interior balloon was
3826 XVII | despotism. Their most compact union of power constitutes the
3827 XXX | enough, however, by the universal language of gestures, to
3828 XXXIV | suddenly in the midst of a most unlooked-for calm; the north wind had
3829 XV | happened? Had the sultan unluckily perished in the hands of
3830 XI | it would require but one unlucky blow to do the balloon an
3831 I | and stood there, quite unmoved by the thunders of applause
3832 XXVII | yielded the soonest to these unnatural privations.~Throughout the
3833 VIII | expedition.~During the long, unoccupied hours of the voyage, the
3834 XII | our breakfast?” was Joe’s unpoetical change of tune, at last,
3835 II | it mentioned, in terms of unreserved admiration, the energetic
3836 XXX | its entire extent, like an unrolled chart. It is really a city
3837 III | while the map of Africa unrolls itself beneath my gaze in
3838 XVIII | fury over this elevated and unsheltered basin.~The doctor experienced
3839 XXXV | passed a few minutes of unspeakable anguish, which all his philosophy
3840 IV | Lauture made an equally unsuccessful attempt to reach the famous
3841 XXII | spectacle, for the wind with unswerving certainty was carrying the
3842 XLIV | journals of all Europe were untiring in their praises of the
3843 XVII | night passed without any untoward occurrence.~
3844 XXV | must not leave anything untried; therefore, let us ascend!”~
3845 XXXV | hissings of these new and unwelcome bedfellows.~“Now, there’
3846 XVII | last northern limit of the Unyamwezi, opposite to the Lake Ukereoue,
3847 XV | centre is the district of Unyanembe—a delicious region, where
3848 XV | harmonious accords of the “upatu,” a sort of cymbal made
3849 XLI | of the sun shone upon its uppermost extremity; but the car was
3850 XLII | considerable weight, rose upright in the air and tugged strongly
3851 XVII | delight, doing his best to urge this rather novel team. “
3852 XXXVI | who were still desperately urging their steeds at Joe’s heels.
3853 XIII | chain of the mountains of Usagara.~The aeronauts took careful
3854 | using
3855 VII | instruments, awnings,~ and sundry utensils, guns,~ coverings, etc.....................
3856 V | back upon questioning the utility of the expedition—its opportuneness,
3857 III | by any means. That is a Utopian idea.”~“Then, you will go—”~“
3858 XVII | She passed the village of Uyofu, the last northern limit
3859 X | upper part of the balloon. A vacuum is created below, and it
3860 XIX | heavy mist, was defined but vaguely. The monotony, however,
3861 VII | hempen cord, and the two valves were the object of the most
3862 X | receptacle. A Belgian, Dr. Van Hecke, by means of wings
3863 XLIX | are at the mercy of very variable winds; but I should think
3864 XXVI | the mind. There was not a variation in the surface of the soil,
3865 XVII | compelled the doctor to vary his style of locomotion.
3866 XXVI | voice died out in the empty vastness of surrounding space, like
3867 VIII | balloon soaring above the Vatican, whence it crossed the Campagna,
3868 XL | has a slight tendency to veer a little more to the eastward,
3869 XVIII | directions, it at length veered in a straight line toward
3870 XXXII | poverty-stricken multitude vegetate rather than live, since
3871 XX | which there is a little vegetating earth. Some fine day, the
3872 I | entertains of African cartology” (vehement applause); “and, should
3873 I | placed in one of those odd vehicles in which the passengers
3874 XXVII | fists, and ready to open his veins and drink his own hot blood.~“
3875 VIII | balloon can resist such velocities.”~“A balloon—that might
3876 XX | the appearance of these venerable forests. Look, doctor!”~“
3877 XI | luminaries are objects of veneration to the African tribes, and
3878 IV | Karthoum—nor Miani, the Venetian, who, turning the cataracts
3879 XIX | to get us a good slice of venison.”~
3880 XIV | word as a sportsman, those venison-steaks have a gamy flavor that’
3881 IV | his party.~Such was the venturesome journey of Dr. Barth.~Dr.
3882 XXII | things than we’ve done, in venturing all alone among those savage
3883 IX | picture of the delights of Venus.~“And when we get back from
3884 XV | slope of a hill.~A kind of veranda, formed by the thatched
3885 XXXI | in the midst of rich and verdant landscapes that our travellers
3886 XLI | hand, or to the bay of Cape Verde on the other.~As far as
3887 XIII | doctor’s prediction was fully verified. Kennedy no longer felt
3888 VIII | journey. They took pleasure in verifying his calculations; they discussed
3889 I | Levaillants, and to some extent, I verily believe, of Selkirk (Robinson
3890 Note | reader, who will find M. VERNE as much at home in voyaging
3891 VI | go.”~“Oh! now, you won’t vex the doctor in that way!”~“
3892 IV | thousand scenes of pillage, of vexation, and attacks by armed forces,
3893 IV | eight long months, under vexations inflicted upon him by the
3894 I | Tuckey, Tyrwhitt, Vaudey, Veyssiere, Vincent, Vinco, Vogel,
3895 XVII | turn.~Then Joe took the viands from the oven, spread the
3896 XXVI | atmosphere the heat appeared to vibrate as it does above a blazing
3897 VI | confidence. The doctor, however, vibrated between doubt and confidence;
3898 V | de Heuglin, the Austrian vice-consul at Karthoum, has just organized
3899 XX | to avoid the sight of the victorious tribe rushing upon the dead
3900 III | to science was as great a victory won as the conquest of a
3901 I | of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, or St. Petersburg, or yet
3902 XXVIII | we had better keep a more vigilant lookout, and light fires,
3903 XIV | vegetation had resumed all its vigor at some distance from Mdaburu.
3904 VIII | Napoleon by his Holiness, Pius VII.’ On the next morning, the
3905 XLIII | those we met before, these vile brigands would have been
3906 XXII | nothing; only that black villain leaving us!” replied the
3907 I | Vaudey, Veyssiere, Vincent, Vinco, Vogel, Wahlberg, Warrington,
3908 XXXII | a comb and gills of deep violet, stood erect with rage.
3909 XIX | herbage was besprinkled with violet-colored blossoms. The huts, looking
3910 XXXIV | camels, stretching out their viper-like heads and necks along the
3911 XVI | continent will grow old; its virgin forests will fall before
3912 XII | along with a thousand other virtues, has a remarkable talent
3913 XV | horny fists of two jet-black virtuosi.~Most of the women were
3914 VI | a strength and range of vision that were perfectly surprising.
3915 V | and every night he had visions of being swung aloft at
3916 I | period from 1855 to 1857, visiting the whole region west of
3917 XXXV | Kazah did come back rather vividly to his memory.~“I foresee
3918 XVII | Joe went to work at his vocation. At first he made a hole
3919 I | rather than drawn by his own volition, to journey as he did, and
3920 XX | the air was dotted with volleys of arrows. The combatants
3921 V | has been increased by the voluntary accession of several learned
3922 XXVIII | Joe, stretching himself voluptuously on the cool greensward.~“
3923 XXXV | and was well aware of the voracity of those monsters.~Now,
3924 XLIV | his brave companions, as vouched for by undeniable testimony;
3925 XXII | Blessed be God for having vouchsafed to me the joy before I die
3926 II | the Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, de la Geographie, de l’
3927 Note | VERNE as much at home in voyaging through the air as in journeying “
3928 XXXI | damage.”~“The animal is vulnerable only in the stomach and
3929 XXXVIII| the horizon, a flock of vultures which, fortunately, however,
3930 II | Allgemeine Erdkunde, by Dr. W. Koner, triumphantly demonstrated
3931 XIV | soared away to the eastward, wafted by a moderate wind.~“That
3932 XXX | puffs of the breeze are wafting us to it, and, if we choose,
3933 XIX | other, and are continually waging a war of extermination.
3934 I | Vincent, Vinco, Vogel, Wahlberg, Warrington, Washington,
3935 XXXVII | The Western Route.—Joe wakes up.—His Obstinacy.—End of
3936 XXI | situation, was on the point of waking his companions, but he reflected
3937 XLII | foot. I am a first-rate walker, a good sportsman, and—”~“
3938 XX | wounded, in which they fairly wallowed, were horrible to behold.~
3939 XXII | half naked, wasted and wan, bleeding, covered with
3940 XVII | but no imprudence! Don’t wander too far away.”~“Never fear,
3941 XVIII | region in sight. His gaze wandered over details that might
3942 XV | Appearance of the Balloon.—The Wangaga.—The Sons of the Moon.—The
3943 XV | men of a fine race, the Wanyamwezi so-called, a pure type of
3944 XII | all his joints while the war-song of his tribe was chanted;
3945 XX | the bark of the tree.~“The war-tree of these cannibals!” said
3946 XIX | and burnings, and where warlike conflicts between the barbarian
3947 V | yet,” he would add, with warmth, “that was at the height
3948 XXI | ascend rapidly at a moment’s warning.”~“Agreed!”~“Let us go down,
3949 I | Vinco, Vogel, Wahlberg, Warrington, Washington, Werne, Wild,
3950 XX | mishap of their leader, his warriors seemed struck dumb with
3951 XIV | with a glass of grog to wash it down.”~So saying, the
3952 I | Vogel, Wahlberg, Warrington, Washington, Werne, Wild, and last,
3953 XVII | Joe arranged a circle of watch-fires as an indispensable barrier
3954 XLIX | around, like an immense water-jet from some fountain, and
3955 VII | substance is absolutely water-proof, and also resists acids
3956 XLI | determines the course of the water-shed, whether to the Gulf of
3957 XXIV | Desert.—The Mistake in the Water-Supply.—The Nights of the Equator.—
3958 XVI | height, it was a chain of waterfalls thrown across the whole
3959 I | Geographical Society, No. 3 Waterloo Place, London. The president,
3960 XVII | had remained completely waterproof.~It was now only five days
3961 XXXV | night. In its place, the watery immensity of Lake Tchad!~“
3962 VIII | the flame will not even waver. An aeronaut in Garnerin’
3963 XXX | foe. Joe wore himself out waving handkerchiefs of every color
3964 XIX | trifling height, were seen in wavy lines upon the horizon.
3965 XXVIII | enough. If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would
3966 XXIII | was distressing to see his weakened limbs bend under him.~“My
3967 XV | and enjoyment which the wealthy merchants covet; while the
3968 XXVI | pitied the most who cannot wean himself from gloomy reflections
3969 VIII | any balloon withstand the wear and tear of such velocity?”~“
3970 XXIV | around him during that long wearisome day. Nothing could be seen
3971 XXX | produced by a number of weavers beating cloth stretched
3972 IX | the boatswain.~“Yes! the wedding-ring—only no one knows what’s
3973 XVIII | doctor held his post.~On Wednesday, April 23d, the balloon
3974 XIX | and announcing, as the weeds upon the ocean did to Christopher
3975 XXI | exhausted by suffering, weighs as much as one of us; there
3976 XLIX | Mountains. Nothing could be more weird than the appearance of these
3977 XXXV | opening in the foliage the welcome apparition of the balloon—
3978 V | have really labored for the welfare of humanity?— When, after
3979 XXXV | denizens of this lake enjoy the well-deserved reputation of being quite
3980 XLII | anchor-rope, severed it with one well-directed blow of his hatchet. Meanwhile,
3981 I | to the rest. How many a well-employed hour he passed with that
3982 V | the head of a numerous and well-equipped expedition; their mission
3983 XV | populations, strong, robust, well-made, and in splendid condition.
3984 XLIII | bank of the river. They had well-nigh taken it for some celestial
3985 XL | pressing it against the well-worn tissue of the balloon.~He
3986 XXII | drove it gently toward the west-northwest. The doctor went in under
3987 VIII | waiting at the stairs of Westminster Bridge. The captain leaped
3988 XXXVIII| weight which it caused by wetting the whole machine, car and
3989 XVII | fact,” said Joe, “it’s a whale that we have harpooned;
3990 XVII | re only doing just what whalemen do when out fishing.”~But
3991 XVII | were last seen, like the whales, whose mass and speed they
3992 XLIV | of Gouina. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our
3993 | whereupon
3994 | wherever
3995 XV | although accustomed to gin and whiskey, could not withstand the
3996 XXX | The pigeons were already whisking around the car; they were
3997 XXI | meditations again, when a sharp whistle pierced his ear.~Was that
3998 XXI | serpent? That hissing or whistling that you heard before—”~“
3999 XX | flew.~Suddenly, shouts and whistlings were heard by our aeronauts,
4000 XX | at their leisure.~“Not a whit more cruel than hanging!”
4001 III | Then, you will go—”~“Whithersoever Providence wills; but, at
4002 XXVIII | instability of human affairs.”~“Whole-hearted friend!” said Kennedy, extending
4003 VI | did well. Incomparable, whole-souled Joe! a servant who orders
4004 XXVIII | satisfaction!’ The Scotchman had a wholesome dread of the brawny traveller,
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