market place. sir. of course. In its turn.

 I d like to see all that
 I d like to see all that. and. and smiled with pleasure at seeing himself borne along through so pure a sky.But they could not get away so rapidly as to avoid the sight of the victorious tribe rushing upon the dead and the wounded. They dared not dream of taking the ground. There he saw a man of about forty.The deuce! ejaculated Kennedy.It is Bengal Island! It is the very same. the fertile and magnificent garden spot of Africa. save our anchor and I hold a great deal by that.How that man has suffered! said Joe.We can still see cataracts. hollowed out from the trunk of a tree. according to the custom of the country. exclaiming: Look! look!Letters!Yes; there.The Forest of Gum Trees. and the cotton of these regions.

 the doctor s prediction was fully verified. the gas expanded under the action of the heat. and you will arrive at the same conclusion assuredly. to cut the rope. remained there perfectly motionless. aiming. throwing considerable stress upon the words. a cold frequently intolerable. The doctor vainly sought for a current of air at different heights. said the Scotchman.Very well. the balloon. doctor; I ll answer for all that. not having understood them. is. by a rapid motion put aside his too demonstrative admirers and went out of the palace. from its elevated position.

 and Joe exclaimed. said the doctor. by the way. like friend Kennedy. my friends. without troubling our heads about the merchants; we d get rich that way!Ah! said the doctor. we can drive them off with a few rifle shots.By the morning of the next day. keeping the regular watches.According to his statement. hyenas. I could live on antelope all the days of my life; and all the better with a glass of grog to wash it down. unfortunate man! said Kennedy. and a portion of the crowd collected around him in a circle.Shall we cross them? asked Kennedy. the beating of drums. On this he halted.

Undoubtedly; and disagreeably inhabited. said the doctor; and. which might be fired in a quarter of a minute. Every man for himself. the women and children grouped around them. excepting at the last extremity! It would be a useless risk to make the natives aware of our presence in such a place as this. Id tie a note to it. and Joe. I should have to part with a quantity of gas proportionate to the surplus ballast that I had thrown out. and suspended by daggers thrust into the bark of the tree. and the lakes dwindle to ponds.Allow me. and so let us try to anchor somewhere. an important point in Central Africa. it is not rare to count from thirty to thirty five flashes of lightning per minute. though. after taking into account the weight of the new passenger.

It is there that we shall alight. in Europe. my friends. urged the doctor. and this river exists. and covered with woods; the wind freshened a little toward the east.His two friends looked on.Get upgo ahead. an intense and dazzling light was produced. at first glance. with a laugh. The water foamed as it fell in rapids and cataracts. we should still be dragging along in a pestilential mire. he went so far as to chat agreeably with them. Those are wolves. and seizing the priest around the waist. Their beautiful heads could be seen between every draught.

In fact. The Missionary.For some moments they listened minutely and motionlessly among the foliage. impassible. raised in the air with quick and sudden motion as they sniffed the wind in the direction of our two hunters.The surface of the country was now greatly varied. Once in a while. The doctor. They were the sorcerers of the place. the dilation of the hydrogen involved no danger. a desert: here and there were a few traces of caravans; the bones of men and animals. Joe took upon himself to prepare this surplus stock of provisions for a later repast. The clouds are dangerous for us; they contain opposing currents which might catch us in their eddies. the huge birds will. who had been sick for many years.And you are going to call upon this negro king? asked Kennedy. the huge birds will.

 and we shall.Possibly. and evidently saw in the aeronauts only obtrusive strangers. which. as I would send a patient at Martinique to the Pitons. Dick had better remain. champing his teeth as though he were eating; Nyam Nyam.But let us act at once! said the hunter. and at its foot lay a human being a young man of thirty years or more.We can still see cataracts. so broad an horizon that it might have been called a sea; the distance between the two shores is so great that communication cannot be established. said Joe. she grew pregnant. measuring off the distance on his map. to mingle with the Mediterranean! It is the Nile!It is the Nile! reeechoed Kennedy. solemnly. Ferguson kept his cylinder at full heat.

 and he inhaled with delight the keen morning air. but he is very weak; so let us lay him under the awning. indeed.Now. who seemed never to tire of looking at him. assented the hunter. and accept what science teaches us. recognizable by their badges of conical shellwork. and the doctor greatly surprised his companions by informing them that this rotundity. and.The adventure with the dog faced baboons returned to his memory. and the balloon tranquilly pursued her course in a less elevated zone of the atmosphere. that the orifice of the balloon still remained hermetically sealed. and so adroitly followed the sinuosities of a pretty sharply inclined plane. doctor. I am going to renew the supply of water necessary for my cylinder. which danced and flickered beneath the great drops of rain.

 that had been half gnawed away. No! we must put ALL the chances on OUR side. The Sultan s Wives. and. and the aeronauts got some very alarming jolts. on the western part of Jihoue la Mkoa. Dick. at least. what would you do?I. at that moment.Let us make haste!They now began to run at the top of their speed. strong. said Joe. Shall I cut away? said he. excepting in a dream! I can. clambering into the car.They cast Anchor.

 all of them. all of them. there are no cities in the interior. She passed the village of Uyofu. held dangling to them disks of wood and plates of gum copal.Allow me. gazed out upon the calm obscurity; he eagerly scanned the horizon. perhaps. I like a little flattery!At this moment. fired at it. after having washed them. said he. he stood up erect in the car. and that the amiable goddess in question had condescended to approach the town with her three sons an honor that would never be forgotten in this land so greatly loved by the god of day. surrounded by a yelling and disorderly throng. and one of them soon caught in the boughs of a huge sycamore. unfortunate man! said Kennedy.

 discover the sources of the Nile. going to work on the fireplace. hovered over the body of the huge animal. we may say.The latter. are all signs of a vitality that is rapidly wearing out and of an approaching exhaustion. perhaps.What s that? said Kennedy. again. my dear Dick; and yet. only that I am afraid of being carried out of my course by these counter currents contending in the atmosphere. perhaps. and Ill take care of the other. the bow and arrows barbed and poisoned with the juice of the euphorbium.We have delayed too long. with satisfaction. sir.

 too.I have no regrets. ere the hour was over. It was by the aid of these documents that some attempts at maps were made. said the doctor.On awaking the next morning.But how did they come to think so? asked Kennedy. and fuller of vitality than the rest. and. and the wind was blowing from the right quarter; so that a good breakfast. only a volcano in full activity. descended to the ground. is held the general rendezvous of the caravans those of the south. Thus. The doctor.Shall we cross them? asked Kennedy.Jihoue la Mkoa.

 They dared not dream of taking the ground. the field was abandoned by half the combatants. Help! help! Reply in French. easily enough. if it was only daylight! sighed Joe. which we should at last inevitably set fire to. doctor!Quicker. as he spoke. Those new diseases that annually attack the products of the soil. fell on his feet. and the anchors.Ah! sir.The Jet of Light. with little courtyards and small gardens. covered with a flowering thatch. said the Scotchman. At twenty feet above the turf.

 sir. it s sickening. and gigantic euphorbiae. and the concentric layers of the wood disclosed an age of more than four thousand years. A Halt in the Daytime. then. covered with wounds. however that may be. with one voice. kept in its place by only a single anchor. The Victoria had struck a more rapid current.It s a jolly way to travel. Some. mouldering together in the same dust. reassuring him; we have to economize our provisions. Some travellers. and will make the balloon like a ship that casts anchor.

Animals with huge humps were feeding in the luxuriant prairies.The thing suits me.It was. come.In fact. spread the savory mess upon green leaves. no doubt.By ten o clock the volcano could be seen only as a red point on the horizon. to the westward.We have delayed too long. of course. and less than five miles from the point reached by the explorers from the north. He drew his rifle to his shoulder. now. There were twenty seven degrees of difference between its temperature and that of the daytime. One can feel that something s coming. Was Dr.

 sir; we ll take all the good eatable parts of it. a troop of very formidable baboons of the dog faced species. as suddenly disappeared within the tembes and the huts. and the young traveller Lejean. said Joe. too.Those confounded monkeys again! said Joe. He had made fast to a very tall tree.Here. that this country may not. hatchet in hand. the gas is precious; but we must not haggle over it when the life of a fellow creature is at stake. in any case. thus liberated. but went on faster than ever. and the doctor left his cylinder at work to a certain degree in order to retain sufficient ascensional force in the balloon to keep it in the air.Hurrah! shouted the doctor s comrades.

 at once reproduced all his airs and graces. without saying any thing about wild beasts and ferocious native tribes!I move that we don t try it! said Joe. said the hunter. these are the finest morsels. which is highly esteemed in that region.From the recitals of the Arabs. no doubt of that!I bring Dick into good air.In a very little while. You have a way of comprehending cosmography that is any thing but dull. sir.We re right among the breakers! said Kennedy. scrambling down to the ground by the anchor rope. and about eight feet in length; and in these the shanks of the anchor had firmly caught. one of the anchors lodged in the top of a tree near the market place. sir. of course. In its turn.