Part,  Chapter

  1 1,1|          sack is empty!" "Does the balloon rise?" "No!" "I hear a noise
  2 1,1|          agitated air. ~In fact, a balloon, as a ball might be carried
  3 1,1|     Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing
  4 1,1|         cannot be doubted that the balloon came from a great distance,
  5 1,1|            the waves. However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles,
  6 1,1|          was also evident that the balloon was again slowly descending
  7 1,1|           form. Towards midday the balloon was hovering above the sea
  8 1,1|      firmly the lower point of the balloon. ~It was, however, evident
  9 1,1|          was failing, and that the balloon could no longer be sustained
 10 1,1|         course, and to prevent the balloon from being engulfed in the
 11 1,1| notwithstanding their efforts, the balloon still fell, and at the same
 12 1,1|           useless. The case of the balloon collapsed more and more.
 13 1,1|          night, voyagers, car, and balloon must to a certainty vanish
 14 1,1|          more hours passed and the balloon was scarcely 400 feet above
 15 1,1|            into the sea. "Does the balloon rise?" "A little, but it
 16 1,1|        only mode of lightening the balloon. The ropes which held the
 17 1,1|          the car were cut, and the balloon, after its fall, mounted
 18 1,1|          for an instant aloft, the balloon began to redescend, the
 19 1,1|     elements. ~At four o'clock the balloon was only 500 feet above
 20 1,1|        shouted,-~"Land! land!" The balloon, which the wind still drove
 21 1,1|             An hour! Might not the balloon before that be emptied of
 22 1,1|            It was evident that the balloon could no longer support
 23 1,1|          it still heavier, and the balloon only half rose, like a bird
 24 1,1|           than a mile off, but the balloon, exhausted, flabby, hanging
 25 1,1|        pairs of lungs at once. The balloon, which had appeared as if
 26 1,1|         the meshes of the net. The balloon, relieved of their weight,
 27 1,1|    passengers, with a dog, and the balloon only left four on the shore. ~
 28 1,1|    circumstance that the lightened balloon rose the last time, and
 29 1,2|      almost fallen from their torn balloon into the depths of the ocean.
 30 1,2|            the idea of rising in a balloon, so as to pass over the
 31 1,2|          authorized the attempt. A balloon was manufactured and placed
 32 1,2|   prolonged. ~The departure of the balloon was fixed for the 18th of
 33 1,2|         was impossible to risk the balloon and those whom it carried
 34 1,2|         the furious elements. ~The balloon, inflated on the great square
 35 1,2|          difficulty in keeping the balloon fastened to the ground,
 36 1,2|        force. The departure of the balloon was impossible. ~On that
 37 1,2|            escape?" ~"By that lazy balloon which is left there doing
 38 1,2|     perfectly well how to manage a balloon. Had he himself been as
 39 1,2|            they might approach the balloon, slip into the car, and
 40 1,2|             Without this storm the balloon would have started already
 41 1,2|       Herbert and me five. But the balloon will hold six-" ~"That will
 42 1,2|         one thing; it was that the balloon, held to the ground and
 43 1,2|       escape or destruction of the balloon. Evening arrived. The night
 44 1,2|         midst of which plunged the balloon. Everything favored the
 45 1,2|       obscurity. Even the enormous balloon, almost beaten to the ground,
 46 1,2|      rejoined his companions. ~The balloon was then only held by the
 47 1,2|          letting go the cable; the balloon ascending in an oblique
 48 1,2|        hazardous expedition in the balloon on the 20th of March. Five
 49 1,4|           if some portion of their balloon, to which a man might possibly
 50 1,5|         beyond the place where the balloon had fallen the last time
 51 1,6|          everything to lighten the balloon. The imaginary heroes of
 52 1,8| unacquainted, the last fall of the balloon, the landing on this unknown
 53 1,8|         wave had torn him from the balloon net. He sank at first several
 54 1,8|        help. He saw nothing of the balloon, which, lightened both of
 55 1,9|          distance traversed by the balloon at less than six to seven
 56 1,1|           water and near which the balloon had thrown them, the name
 57 1,4|           them away, Pencroft, the balloon would have thrown us to
 58 1,0|           those they wore when the balloon threw them on the island.
 59 2,1|     exactly seven months since the balloon voyagers had been thrown
 60 2,5|           of our airy boat, of our balloon, which has been caught up
 61 2,5|            Lincoln Island that the balloon, after having made its last
 62 2,5|            down the remains of the balloon from the tree, to place
 63 2,5|          disengage the now reduced balloon. ~The operation lasted two
 64 2,5|           island, it won't be in a balloon, will it? These airboats
 65 2,5|        very suitable name of "Port Balloon," the settlers pursued their
 66 2,5|            taken to bring back the balloon, for the canoe alone could
 67 2,5|           task of getting down the balloon had not rested either their
 68 2,7|          easy the transport of the balloon case, which would furnish
 69 2,7|            from this spot, to Port Balloon, discovered the day before
 70 2,7|   necessary to take a cart to Port Balloon, and consequently, necessary
 71 2,7|            state of things at Port Balloon, and reported that the stock
 72 2,7|            risking themselves in a balloon filled with gas, above a
 73 2,7|         from Granite House to Port Balloon, with a branch line to Mount
 74 2,7|         angle of the Mercy to Port Balloon. The cart might then be
 75 2,7|            out on the road to Port Balloon. ~Of course they were jolted
 76 2,7|            case and rigging of the balloon. ~At eight o'clock that
 77 2,8|        used in the covering of the balloon. This with admirable patience
 78 2,8|          to the corral and to Port Balloon, a third was commenced,
 79 2,8|            of the day on which the balloon had thrown them on this
 80 2,1|           in the direction of Port Balloon, in order to reach the marsh,
 81 2,2|    discovered with the case of the balloon, the ropes and cables from
 82 2,2|        four miles across from Port Balloon. The island then appeared
 83 2,2|           in the direction of Port Balloon. It was important to ascertain
 84 2,5|          her, Pencroft?" ~"In Port Balloon," replied the sailor. "That
 85 2,5|            tranquil waters of Port Balloon. ~During the first days
 86 2,6|          inexhaustible case of the balloon furnished the necessary
 87 2,9|    Bonadventure," anchored in Port Balloon, was provisioned for a voyage
 88 2,9|             tacked on leaving Port Balloon so as to reach Reptile End.
 89 2,0|           them by the road to Port Balloon, after having passed the
 90 3,1|       since the castaways from the balloon had been thrown on Lincoln
 91 3,1|         Pencroft should go to Port Balloon, and that there, at nightfall,
 92 3,1|           she is sheltered in Port Balloon, and I defy any of those
 93 3,5|            after the fall from the balloon, evidently it was he who
 94 3,6|         make an expedition to Port Balloon, The sailor was very anxious
 95 3,6|    foundation, and a visit to Port Balloon appeared to be very desirable.
 96 3,6|           island. ~Arrived at Port Balloon, Pencroft saw with extreme
 97 3,6|        narrow creek. However, Port Balloon was so well hidden among
 98 3,6|            had brought her to Port Balloon. As to the sailor, he had
 99 3,6|           she must be left in Port Balloon. But, if on our return we
100 3,1|         commenced the road to Port Balloon, and there the explorers,
101 3,4|           in Shark Gulf or at Port Balloon, they would not even have
102 3,6|        observed the descent of the balloon which carried the prisoners
103 3,8|        float on the waters of Port Balloon! Therefore there is not
104 3,9|            beyond the road to Port Balloon. But the colonists were
105 3,9|         conduct the vessel to Port Balloon, that is to say, as far
106 3,0|          the granite rocks of Port Balloon, the basalts of Dakkar Grotto,