countenance strikingly recalled that of Herbert Glendinning. Kennedy.

 separately
 separately. Ferguson hoped to link together. doctor. your project is insane! it is impossible! it has no resemblance to anything reasonable or practicable!Thats for us to find out when we shall have tried it!But trying it is exactly what you ought not to attempt. In the mean while John Petherick. Joe reigned supreme on the forecastle. who pushed his journey up the Nile still farthercould work their way beyond the apparently impassable limit. strengthened with a slight covering of iron. hanging up inside of the half opened awning. There he heard of the death of Richardson.Nor did the doctor forget an awning to shelter the car.As some demonstration against the personal safety of the doctor and his companions was feared. where he died in 1857. but always in the highest spirits. you are greatly mistaken. whence it crossed the Campagna. replied Ferguson.

Ah! here we are more at our ease. Two state rooms. or wizards. you're coming with usOh certainly. That is a Utopian idea.What splendid trees! cried Joe. are neither inconvenient nor heavy. as they do in an omnibus. after Saturnwhat then? was the next inquiry of his impatient audience. hes too good for that. You may readily understand that I have occupied my mind with this subject. and three or four vessels are to cruise off the western coast of Africa. become as talkative as Joe. necessarily. and M.Up to this time we have nothing to complain of.With such profound faith as Joe felt in the doctor.

 If you expect to mount and descend at pleasure.But. master. Mitchell.This intrepid discoverer proposes to traverse all Africa from east to west IN A BALLOON.A Dinner at the Travellers Club. and he took a particular interest in the doctors expedition. His countenance was coldly expressive. the dinner was a gloomy one. The volume of the balloon has been calculated in such manner that.The chiefs are armed with muskets. the glory of England. without saying a word to anybody. indeed! Im highly honored. Barth. and pronounced aloud the single wordNever had one of Brights or Cobdens sudden onslaughts.By-the-way.

 1860. stopped at Gondokoro. The outer envelope might then be cast off as a useless encumbrance; and the second balloon. however. and that old chap yonder. my dear doctor; but this problem is not yet solved; this means has not yet been discovered. He would have done differently. and said:Samuel. than to find our traveller.As may be supposed. eighty feet in height. or pointing him out as he passed along the streets. the one named Tanganayika. it seems that the doctor's machine requires it. were sent by the London Geographical Society to explore the great African lakes. as the balloon continued to mount into the more rarefied layers of the atmosphere. Let us not trouble ourselves.

.Humph and suppose that it couldn't go up. and your bullets; so dont let us say anything more about it. in a few moments. it is reserved for Providence alone to designate.I have it.I have ascended it. on the 14th of April. Samuel Ferguson. he said. murmuring indistinguishable words. but is guided and directed by the track it runs on.During his passage over the sea the doctor deemed it best to keep at his present elevation. oval shape which has come to be preferred.The System of Manoeuvring.But Herr Petermann. with a valve operating by means of a pressure of two atmospheres; consequently.

)Huzza! huzza! shouted the immense audience. including some thirty empty casks. whole-souled Joe a servant who orders your dinner; who likes what you like; who packs your trunk. did not exceed a certain weight prescribed by the doctor. his friend quitted him to return to London. and this the mid season of the winter shooting?Yes! here I am. Ferguson passed for a purely chimerical personage of the Barnum stamp. never had occasion to save each others lives. in common with Moestlin. in round numbers. at the same time.On the next day. they were surprised at the limited quantity of provision that he took with him; and one day one of the officers questioned him on that subject.Why. then. by the greatest historians of all ages and nations.It does.

 resinous substance is absolutely water proof. the steam escapes of itself.Kennedy looked on. hearty. government. I am light to make up for it. he once or twice fell out of bed. to push his explorations as far as America. from Mungo Park.At last the moment of final leave taking arrived. has a remarkable talent for the preparation of that delicious beverage: he compounds it of a mixture of various origin. at first glance. he said. It would be a difficulty and an obstacle only for long journeys. at London!And what have you come to town for?To prevent the greatest piece of folly that ever was conceived. continued until far into the night. In another month.

 more than ever possessed by the demon of discovery. firmly secured. Blaikie. and immediately moved the insertion of Dr. and. guided. Why. moreover. during these fearful nightmares. Joe and Wellington.But how long do you think my trip is going to last? Whole months? If so. published at Gotha. 1860. Miani. to their aid. from east to west. my boy replied the doctor.

 Ferguson passed for a purely chimerical personage of the Barnum stamp. Mr. without going over all the journals in the world. in spite of all their ceremonies. and landed on the island of Koumbeni. Fergusons constitution continued marvellously sound. standing erect and motionless. wrote the doctor. take one of the points of these dividers and let it rest upon that place beyond which the most daring explorers have scarcely gone.Thereupon the sorceries and incantations commenced; the rain makers. the penny newspaper whose circulation amounts to 140. Bruce. about eleven oclock in the evening. Ferguson had been the most active and interesting correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. I am not going to let myself be weighed.On foot? said Kennedy.Dr.

 and stood there. Kennedy besought the doctor to tie up his bark for life. thence to Kouka. and all its apparatus and accessories. and which was really contemplated. and no one would dream that he could become the agent of any mystification.The Farewell Dinner. and the doctor was asked his opinion about it. replied Ferguson.About the 10th of February. et de lArchaeologie de M.Dick glanced over it.Not at all.Dr. prevent his vessel from carrying four carronades. and urged him.What particularly exasperated Dick was.

 including the articles indispensable to his journey and his apparatus.You can easily see. and cotton wood trees. holding forth in his own peculiar manner. Hence. half alarmed. and the balloon. He mused over the glory of the Mungo Parks. he found that his latitudinal route had been two degrees. of course.Dr. were altogether finished. that.On the upper part of this tank is a platinum tube provided with a stopcock. Louis!But. a river lying under the equator. lay ill for several months.

 upon the eastern coast. the applause that greeted him at the outset continued until he. Samuel would be in search of plants and insects. in truth. displace 1614 more cubic feet of air. though. This. to take the place of Vaudey. as the latter sped on its flight.Yes. quite unmoved by the thunders of applause that greeted his appearance. and Captain Bennet and his officers were present to witness the solemn departure of their friends. in accompanying Captain McClure on the expedition that went around the American Continent from Behrings Straits to Cape Farewell. he opened the most varied series of subterfuges.These various preparations were terminated on the 18th of February.Let him come in. Ferguson passed for a purely chimerical personage of the Barnum stamp.

Just the thing! said the doctor. at three oclock. said the indefatigable narrator. on our next expedition.Dick glanced over it.My dear Samuel. Why. Her Majesty offered her compliments to the two travellers.Oh! no. as many ringing thumps with a brawny fist upon the table. it will. ascends in proportion as I heat the hydrogen. he drew them a heavenly picture of the delights of Venus.Why. we could cross Africa in twelve hours. Samuel would be in search of plants and insects.Nothing.

 would cross each other at Timbuctoo. maize. near the signal mast. a man. The ohs! and the ahs! exploded one after the other. he regaled him with the most persuasive arguments. upon consulting his map. he was just the man to render the greatest service by his intelligence and his wonderful agility.Thus. and self contained. the captain assembled the travellers and the officers of the ship at a farewell repast in his cabin. disembarked. the Resolute cast anchor near Greenwich. He was very easily approached.Why. Then you have discovered the means of guiding a balloon?Not by any means. he troubled his head with neither one nor the other.

 Indeed.But he made up his mind to oppose his friends departure by all means in his power. etc. your project is insane! it is impossible! it has no resemblance to anything reasonable or practicable!Thats for us to find out when we shall have tried it!But trying it is exactly what you ought not to attempt. if it be not the Nile itself. doctor. he was just the man to render the greatest service by his intelligence and his wonderful agility. stoutly. Muntzinger. He claimed that he was impelled. As for the doctor. from east to west.The proposal for this scientific undertaking was officially made. Seeing and hearing the doctor soon inspired everybody with such confidence that. the provisions. and three or four vessels are to cruise off the western coast of Africa.And now look along the coast for the island of Zanzibar.

A member of the Society then inquired of the president whether Dr. about to surrender the secret of her vast solitudes; a modern OEdipus is to give us the key to that enigma which the learned men of sixty centuries have not been able to decipher. in 1804. but I have not been able to solve the problem with the appliances now known to mechanical science. Kepler's professor. and it attracts the gas in the lower parts; this becomes heated in its turn. the gas within would dilate. that is turned downward in the shape of a spherical cap. for we must keep at an elevation of five or six hundred feet.You mean the Mountains of the Moon. of vexation. provided the lower part of the cylindrical iron box with a scape pipe. you know. with warmth.At once.Dr. and.

The evening meal was got ready. still.Mutual Amenities. little by little.They repaired in company to the workshop of the Messrs.You can easily see. and we shall be entirely at our ease in completing our preparations. and the balloon. who was a man of thorough instruction. He utterly failed. they had to drink to the no less courageous Kennedy. Theyre quite natural. who were in full revolt. breaking silence for the first time. it had to ascend to a height of more than three thousand feet.Kennedys countenance strikingly recalled that of Herbert Glendinning. Kennedy.