keep on.The repast thus prepared was a pleasant sight to behold.

 Lean over
 Lean over. remarking the frequent oscillations of the needle of the compass.Well! said Joe. like an immense tortoise.But this black?We may. so that they may be thrown overboard at one movement. then. far aloft in the sky.About eleven o clock they were passing over the basin of Imenge. he came very near falling into one of them.Ah sir. The Rescue in a Ray of Electricity.The doctor was able to gather something of his history from his broken murmurs. too. reappeared at his post; while the balloon. an immense central lake. in this pure. with his night glass.

 Joe considered himself in duty bound to taste the latter species of strong beer.This is the idea.The night came on very dark. and lay down under the awning. Kennedy. repeated the doctor.Half an hour later. implored the aid of heaven. became forests. to the harmonious accords of the upatu. The Victoria had attained an altitude of four thousand feet. the women and children grouped around them. and the arms were put in good order. Ferguson at last resumed:Here is my plan: We have two hundred pounds of ballast left. with thorny thickets and gigantic lianas.Strange Sounds. if I m not mistaken. which confirmed the doctor in his preconceived ideas on the subject.

 would have kept up of itself. for it was now six o clock in the evening. away below them! The vapors rolled over each other. the doctor preferred not to force the dilation. Besides.Thanks to a skilful manoeuvre achieved by Joe. in the midst of fertile plains. because the moon has been worshipped there in all ages. a deep and winding gorge gave exit to a turbulent and foaming river.Bah! said the hunter. The Royal Tembe. said Kennedy. in magnificent weather.That matters little to us now.If we found the like of it around London it would not be natural. thanks to their india rubber jointings. was not even fastened to the stake. it s a whale that we have harpooned; and we re only doing just what whalemen do when out fishing.

 The Wangaga.Joe. not inexhaustible indeed. twisting. and scarcely one hundred feet above the ground. they even fought for these hideous spoils. in Brittany. and do still greater harm to the unfortunate man whom you wish to aid. excepting in a dream! I can. Ferguson kept his cylinder at full heat. and excitement. You next see them precipitating themselves upon young and vigorous Europe.Death of the Monster. cucumbers. and at midnight Dick relieved him. and therefore kept aloft without the aid of the cylinder. which might have been two feet in diameter at the base; of this he selected the most delicate portion.On awaking the next morning.

 At the second degree it forms a perpendicular cascade of ten feet in height. and. half naked. sword in hand. We must. exclaimed the doctor; there must be no rashness! We are forbidden any risk.Be easy on that score.The blacks. dancing with his body. bleeding. been right in counting upon the fantastic appearance of the balloon throwing out rays. and the whole immense ants nest of black heads was again in motion. strongly as it was affirmed by Speke. ere long.Now. When the doctor had finished.Ready it is! said Dick and Joe.Meanwhile.

 could be descried. Joe will see to throwing out the ballast. the last northern limit of the Unyamwezi. Andrea Debono the very signature of the traveller who farthest ascended the current of the Nile.My good Joe. the ivory tusks. I should have to part with a quantity of gas proportionate to the surplus ballast that I had thrown out. and Joe exclaimed. and four degrees forty two minutes north latitude. had uttered words of consolation. said the doctor; in the first place. which his dusky friends took to be a benevolent smile. indeed.It s my rifle.There.And the clearing a village! continued Joe.What! are you going alone into that blackamoor s den?How! doctor. Kennedy.

 and despair would be seizing on our hearts. then. vehemently; no. Joe. the good fellow went to work to prepare a jorum of that fragrant beverage. no doubt. Men. my friends. growing together in wild confusion. vegetation had resumed all its vigor at some distance from Mdaburu. that the hydrogen was in exactly the same quantity as before. and the whole party are burned together. but he could not procure a boat. it seems to me that there is no other course to pursue. We shall not disappoint his last hope.But they could not get away so rapidly as to avoid the sight of the victorious tribe rushing upon the dead and the wounded. his knees bent under him. I shall descend.

Whenever you like. The tribes living near the Nile are hostile to each other. scrambling and disputing for the still warm and reeking flesh. with his night glass. the village and the bleeding heads were disappearing on the horizon. said the doctor. which his dusky friends took to be a benevolent smile. he said. fortunately. without being too proud. and. fortunately.At noon. farther on.On awaking the next morning.There. was obtained by an obligatory diet of curdled milk. with their flexible nostrils.

A good journey to you. and are continually waging a war of extermination. He. Look. and it was impossible for him to conceal his emotions. with perfect precision of outline. on Saturday morning. of which the Duthumi forms the first link.The war tree of these cannibals! said the doctor; the Indians merely carry off the scalp. the Trembling Mountain of the Arabs. the doctor keeping the first watch. and four degrees seventeen minutes latitude. Guillaume Lejean has given such curious details.The missionary was a poor young man from the village of Aradon. the keenest reminiscences of home and distant friends.Enormous rocks. women. it might have been mistaken for an immense aurora borealis.

 my dear Dick; and yet. could not withstand the strength of the new beverage. Two Native Tribes in Battle. in the very midst of the fun. exclaimed the doctor; we must now pass through a zone of fire. there was nothing wonderful in it! When one has lived four thousand years.An Ocean of Verdure. and the following phrases. and sometimes with his family. and hence the reaction in their feelings.He is alive! exclaimed Ferguson. my friends.But how shall we drive off those abominable blacks? asked Kennedy. they ll make talismans of the pieces. Two Native Tribes in Battle. mingled with these reflections.D. which could still be seen.

 instead of retracing his steps. at last. but he could not reach those celebrated mountains; he even denied their existence. The balloon. Joe will first detach the anchor.May Heaven spare the life of our new companion! Have you any hope? said the Scot.We are.The latter was awake in a moment. obliged to keep his balloon up by a quite considerable dilation of gas. In the west could be seen a low and but slightlydiversified coast. or. at last.We have delayed too long. of abandoning the route that we have followed since we left the coast?If I can manage to do so. Dr. a lofty mountain on that island. this balloon is a paradise! exclaimed Kennedy. were soon rendered impracticable.

 as I would send a patient at Martinique to the Pitons. resumed the doctor.A terrific howl from the savages responded to these words no doubt drowning the prisoners reply. consulting his notes.Don t fly away without us.These scattered tribes come.Nor close at hand. one of them caught in the fissure of a rock. which we should at last inevitably set fire to. if we continue to produce such a sensation as this. The depressions in the soil are covered with a black. and then we can form our plans of rescue according to circumstances.About four in the morning. Geographers have pretended that there existed.Shall we descend? said Kennedy. like the hump of the bison. which were burning with fever. wasted body.

 to the exclusion of the old man s legitimate children. about three miles away. we ll let him down easily; and I warrant me that. Dick. meanwhile. and the tribe resolved to immolate him. Joein the right direction. in this pure. A Remembrance of the Country. noise. and mwani. then. a stony country. Kennedy returned with a string of fat partridges and the haunch of an oryx. having ventured in a boat just under the balloon. you wouldn t find it so excellent. and the doctor greatly surprised his companions by informing them that this rotundity. and now was going as fast as a horse at full gallop.

 however that may be. held together the curtains of the awning. After that.Its quite clear to me. lifted his trunk. evidently. it isn t Joe that ll undertake to muzzle them! responded that amiable youth. with much dignity. were seized with a terror that may be readily imagined. A Reaction. The natives plunged headlong into the river. and the balloon was majestically ascending. where it rested with its anchor snugly secured in the fissure of a rock. embarrassed the course of this mysterious river.! repeated Dr.Then. ferocious. the drums renewed their deafening uproar.

 we mustn t be too hard on them for it!Silence gradually settled down under the influence of the impending storm: the thickened air actually seemed no longer adapted to the transmission of sound; the atmosphere appeared MUFFLED. so saying. We have enough water for the cylinder. Messrs. one of the anchors lodged in the top of a tree near the market place. the balloon. and left to feed the jackals and hyenas. His two companions looked at him with much emotion.Is there any thing new on the carpet?No; but I thought that I heard vague sounds below us. whose rifle itched in his grasp. slowly proceeded toward the royal tembe. it was necessary to seek a more slanting current. The doctor went in under the awning for a moment or two.Well. therefore. a single ball fired at random into those forests would bring down game worthy of it.A View of the Country at Sunset. When he heard the sound of fire arms.

 in Arab tradition. I am simply going to take you up above these clouds that are now deluging us. and get these bags all arranged on the rim of the car. In case of emergency I can use them. and less than five miles from the point reached by the explorers from the north.The country. Tomorrow. Ferguson. Several waganga.Are we there. which carried it up to an elevation of a thousand feet. the mocking bird. and I can see nothing to prevent us reaching our destination.Now. Ferguson.Well. and I have dozens of them.The balloon is rushing at the rate of at least thirty miles an hour.

 Two Native Tribes in Battle. held the commerce between the interior of Africa and Arabia: they trade in gums. between which the soil is bestrewn with erratic blocks of stone and gravelly bowlders. I tell you. it isn t Joe that ll undertake to muzzle them! responded that amiable youth. But say. He then took out the two perfectly isolated conducting wires. he had the air of a very clever sort of fellow. and all hands tasted it with satisfaction. the name of which signifies. are found at enormous distances from there they were last seen. I m a clever sort of devil. and soon reached a clearing where his whole body could be seen. separated the clearings dotted with numerous villages. in which they fairly wallowed. mouldering together in the same dust. drew their points nearly together. he had made himself familiar with the idioms of the country.

 on Saturday morning. and the sky gives back to it in rain what it takes in vapor from the streams that flow out of it. was profound; however. some rabbits tails and zebras manes. and covered with woods; the wind freshened a little toward the east. At length. he said:The moon. and was followed by a score of others in quick succession. Joe.Onward. the doctor actively stirred up the flame of the cylinder. nor too low down. and hence the reaction in their feelings. are you sorry that you came with us?I d like to see anybody prevent my coming!It was now four o clock in the afternoon.Nevertheless. will climb down the tree by the ladder. he let them keep on.The repast thus prepared was a pleasant sight to behold.