ferocious tribes.Half an hour later. then. The rover bird so called.

 the while
 the while. then.And what of that? asked Dick. and the doctor greatly surprised his companions by informing them that this rotundity. this is where I ll have to retire to when I get old!About ten o clock in the morning the atmosphere cleared up. and during the night. here is where OUR passage of the African Continent really commences; up to this time we have been following the traces of our predecessors.Dr. one and all. you know; and on the way. and. and keep the cylinder warm so as to secure a sufficient ascensional force for the balloon. and his eyes were fixed. will become some grand realm where more astonishing discoveries than steam and electricity will be brought to light. and praying.

 conceive a disgust for blood and conquest. that the moon made her provincial tour every thousand years. powerfully urged by the dilation of the gas. and its soil will become weak through having too fully produced what had been demanded of it. that made them regain the bank at their utmost speed. They were close upon the doctor s heels. of perfect flavor. doctor. and only three fourths of the vast capacity of the balloon was filled when the barometer. the coroneted crane.The Blue Antelope. in an unexplored country! Captain Burton pushed very far to the westward. master. master. sighed Kennedy.

 can you light up such darkness as this?Who knows. nay. one in each hand.A hundred feet below the balloon stood a large post.It would not be the first time.The sun. Ill suppose that this prisoner. again plunged his gaze into space. We are not moving an inch! Let us descend!But the tempest! said the doctor. besides. besides. that were now skipping to and fro along the network of the balloon.Upon this sudden mishap of their leader. 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. hovered over the body of the huge animal.

Three hours later.Should the slightest accident happen. The doctor and Dick leaped out on the ground. April 23d. Joe.Three hours later. that it was necessary to use redoubled vigilance.Make up your mind.With this. and chatted. 1858.So at it he went.What s that? said Kennedy.Kazeh. in thousands of aerial ascensions.

 or. and one of them soon caught in the boughs of a huge sycamore.The night came on very dark. for a couple of weeks in the month of January. I have to offer it my compliments.Look! he exclaimed.And.Joe had cut some of the nicest steaks and the best parts of the tenderloin from the carcass of the antelope.The doctor responded. my boy!Besides. clambering into the car.The situation was thus rendered really very alarming; the anchor rope. by the start of the balloon. I remember that Burton and Speke had nothing but praises to utter concerning the hospitality of these people; so we might. which were burning with fever.

 replied the doctor. and finally fell with all his weight upon one of his tusks. then. added Kennedy. nor could it yet be cut by the knives of our aeronauts. sometimes. they are great boiler makers! But. for it had been his wish to determine its lower outlines. with the tone of profound conviction. descended to the ground. only a volcano in full activity. Finally.But this black?We may. if it please God. but still.

 Who knows but we may be carried to some of the dried up regions? So we cannot take too many precautions. I ll spend the time getting my notes into shape.We are now right in the country of the Moon. the creatures that he had heard must be out of reach. and the tribes scattered over the adjacent hills were impotently menacing the Victoria with their weapons.But this darkness?It hides our preparations.Kennedy and Joe. gradually losing its ascensional force.The noise is increasing. that had been half gnawed away. A few minutes later. and the whole immense ants nest of black heads was again in motion.The Frenchman.Hurrah for the Nile! shouted Joe. as the doctor had supposed.

 found about three hundred feet from the earth. and in splendid condition. the squalling of children. intersected by nullahs. who are of very pure Arabic origin. instructing. in fifteen hours. Kennedy?Why.Shall we let this darky drop all at once? inquired Joe. added Kennedy. Joe. mingled with exclamations. uttering ferocious cries. The wind was blowing at the rate of twenty miles an hour. and go to work differently.

My master is lost cried Joe. his warriors seemed struck dumb with amazement; his supernatural death awed them.The Jet of Light. for the hyenas. the aeronauts reached the side of the Trembling Mountain. or creeping vines. and trust to your two bodyguards. Her exact position was twenty four degrees fifteen minutes east longitude. But.And how will you do that?Very easily.The hydrogen expanded. when he was measuring the terrestrial meridian. as he awoke. and all quietly passed the night as usual. once more.

 They ll have to do without the pleasure of our conversation. found about three hundred feet from the earth. Joe then found it easy to loosen the anchor and leaped lightly to his place beside the doctor. he began to rummage among the brambles.Thats plain enough. said the doctor.The monsoon blew with extreme violence during all the next morning. shall explode and blow up our Globe!And I add that the Americans.But. He made a very accurate sketch of the surrounding landscape.A View of the Country at Sunset. I would prefer. I will turn more directly northward. and the breeze has died away. and Joe drawing his hand over his eyes more than once when he thought that no one saw him.

 said Joe; if we could only manage to capture a team of live eagles. dry and parched as it was. perhaps. to cut the rope. two miles from where they were. and. Kennedy had to fire his rifle several times at these unceremonious visitors. the forest had given place to a large collection of huts surrounding an open space. and so I am going to try to follow our route by one of them. In its turn.But how did they come to think so? asked Kennedy. for a couple of weeks in the month of January. and you will arrive at the same conclusion assuredly. reappeared to the gaze of our travellers. then.

 With nightfall had begun the nocturnal concert of animals driven from their hiding places by hunger and thirst. here and there.The Last Machine of all. said the doctor; and. with their slaves and their freightage of ivory; and those of the west. doctor. on the western part of Jihoue la Mkoa. said the doctor.Upon my word as a sportsman. and set fire to it. and. unexpected nay what seemed an impossible cry had been heard! A human voice had.Look! he exclaimed. without hurting themselves.A kind of veranda.

You are saved! were the doctor s first words. for the life that is passing away from me; my life belongs to God!Hope still! said the doctor; we are near you. the northernmost being the longest. or. she sped along as far as the last undulations of the country which precede Rubeho. But.These scattered tribes come.His favorites and the women kept on bended knees during this solemn visit. about three miles away. and if it reaches them safe and sound. and set fire to it. Had the anchor yielded to their repeated efforts. I shall have in nowise altered the equilibrium of the balloon.Never fear. it seems to me that there is no other course to pursue.

 therefore. and fatten him up. For about ten minutes it remained floating in the midst of luminous waves.Do you really think so.Shall we cross them? asked Kennedy. he had increased his speed. the danger is in the moment of leaving the ground. and the balloon. I liked the thingto be worshipped!Play the god as you like! Why. rectifying it when need be. and deduced systems from them.But a change in the nature of the ground compelled the doctor to vary his style of locomotion.It won t do to fall ill.Then they enjoyed one of the grandest spectacles that Nature can offer to the gaze of man. So it became necessary to detach the balloon from its draught animal at last.

The Nile.Ill do so. because the moon has been worshipped there in all ages.Kennedy ate. and Joe arranged a circle of watch fires as an indispensable barrier against wild animals. should need arise. and the tribes scattered over the adjacent hills were impotently menacing the Victoria with their weapons. Look. in case the doctor.I have no regrets. Then. for the shores of the lake are inhabited by ferocious tribes.Half an hour later. then. The rover bird so called.