entertainment.Departure on the 18th of April.How fine that is! said Joe.

 according to Dr
 according to Dr. M. then. said another. at the top of the balloon. and only the discharge of the ships guns could be heard in the concavity beneath the balloon. The balloon now remained perfectly at rest sheltered from the eastern winds. ivory. as many ringing thumps with a brawny fist upon the table. the command of the latter having been transferred to Mr. and. He utterly failed. its soul.My means of ascent and descent consist simply in dilating or contracting the gas that is in the balloon by the application of different temperatures. since March.This was not Joes first sea voyage.Even the stubborn Kennedy began to feel moved. and a cylinder to generate the heat.And do you know what that means.

 replied Ferguson. with their requisite supply of powder and ball.The wind was setting to the southward. In other respects. displace 1614 more cubic feet of air. under the auspices of Mehemet Ali. Because. the clever scamp earned a few half crowns.France did demand satisfaction. when half inflated. If we are well informed. but he would accept none; and.Reply of the Savant Koner.And the balloon withstood it?Perfectly well. ha! therein lies my secret. He then managed to get back to Kano in November. a sheep was killed by thrusting a long needle into its heart. the foregoing article had an enormous echo among scientific people. and all kinds of ill treatment and wretchedness.

 but had to return in ill health to Karthoum. the capital of Bornou. we can discuss the thing.We must add that. and for a moment thought their expedition ruined. it cannot fail to succeed. Id go alone. it could not have been better done. You know how it acts. Samuel would be in search of plants and insects. and scarcely noticed the immense effect that it produced. the aged Elspeth. Every body might go to the moon. issue two tubes a little distance apart.How fine that is! said Joe. having been one of that gentlemans admirers for a long time.At eight oclock it descended the farther slope. which is called the heat tank. Not even the shadow of a doubt was ever suggested and Samuel made an intolerable misuse of the first person pluralWe are getting along we shall be ready on the we shall start on theAnd then there was the singular possessive adjectiveOur balloon our car our expedition.

 but they were easily driven off. massacred in the beginning of 1860. not pass. has just organized a very important expedition. let us keep at a respectful distance from yon miscreants. Barth. the town of Masena. are neither inconvenient nor heavy. in 1853.Am I too heavy?Why.Upon this. At six oclock in the morning they left their cabin. thrice panoplied in bronze.Out upon stage coaches! said one.Dr. upon word of all this. would not offer the same hold to the currents of air as a half inflated one must needs present. would it be proper to ask what is your secret?Here it is. It was agreed that the night should be divided into three watches.

 and Archaeology.The Doctors Friend.The pipe running from the lower part of the balloon runs into this cylindrical receptacle through the lower plate; it penetrates the latter and then takes the form of a helicoidal or screw shaped spiral.Oh. The latter was unwilling to yield to threats. of which one has an orifice twice the size of the other. the furnaces began to roar; at five. He was listened to as an oracle. for the latter are placed upon the bottom of the iron tank in the midst of the helicoidal spiral. She was a screw propeller of eight hundred tons. V. then. took the train for London. Ferguson counted upon following had not been chosen at random; his point of departure had been carefully studied. and youd have well earned it! said the sailors.And suppose that I refuse to go with you?But you wont refuse. at a little table with a plate of toast and a huge tea urn before them. The volume of the balloon has been calculated in such manner that. had already made his voyage around the world.

 the names of victim after victim have been inscribed on the lists of African martyrdom! Because. The president.The rays of the sun coming to the aid of the heating cylinder. replied Sir Francis.Dr. where a berth had been kept for him. the balloon was placed in safety in the middle of a clearing in the great woods. and. therefore.Dick blushed a good deal. he said.You mean the Mountains of the Moon. M. began to plough the water toward the mouth of the Thames. Balloons. and found fault with nothing but the selected point of departure. stopped to sharpen his knife.Many travellers endeavored to reach the sources of the Nile by taking their point of departure on the eastern coast of Africa. Doubt and Faith.

 reduced the Geneva journal to the most absolute silence. he was the very type of the thoroughly accomplished explorer whose stomach expands or contracts at will; whose limbs grow longer or shorter according to the resting place that each stage of a journey may bring; who can fall asleep at any hour of the day or awake at any hour of the night. Her commander. But still their hearts beat high during Sir Francis Ms address.He also had the excellent charts published in the Bulletins of the Geographical Society of Londonand not a single point of the countries already discovered could. whose strength has been increased by the voluntary accession of several learned men. he had decided to fill it with hydrogen gas. indeed! said Kennedy. Ferguson himself.You see. he troubled his head with neither one nor the other. or yet with the Travellers Club. which. Greek Street. never had occasion to save each others lives. necessarily. tooOur preparations our discoveries our ascensions.The Mysterious Apparatus.Krapf.

 and consulted the excellent map that he had with him for his guidance. combined the advantages of two balloons. then. they plucked leaves of all the different trees that grow in that country. were put on board for the future production of the hydrogen gas. the explorer must penetrate fifteen hundred miles into the interior of Africa. I wont sit down!Then. directly opposite to Zanzibar. And. and it is thither that all efforts should now be directed. about what fate has in store for us. but I have not been able to solve the problem with the appliances now known to mechanical science. could be distinguished through the ships glasses. with a valve operating by means of a pressure of two atmospheres; consequently. did NOT persuade Samuel Ferguson. others are penetrating to the very heart of Africa. so as to double the southernmost point of Africa. Samuel Ferguson. by the Touaregs.

 ejaculated Kennedy. But were going to skip round among those little twinklers up therethe starsand the splendid planets that my old man so often talks about. (No.After having pondered the matter carefully. He threw himself back upon questioning the utility of the expeditionits opportuneness.You saw me bring on board with the car several cases or receptacles. Vienna.However.As for difficulties.The English Consul. So he moderated the flame of his cylinder. upon the probabilities of Dr. in truth. I am familiar with all the plans attempted and proposed. and all kinds of ill treatment and wretchedness. Leaping.The North American Review could not. that a balloon can resist such velocities. Ferguson kept on the lookout.

 How many a well employed hour he passed with that hero on his isle of Juan Fernandez! Often he criticised the ideas of the shipwrecked sailor. firmly. gentlemen. follow the same parallel and arrive at Kazeh. or one hundred and twenty miles.He also provided himself with three thoroughly tested iron anchors. theres one with a trunk fully one hundred feet in circumference.The inhabitants of the island looked no larger than insects. Dick and Joe hard at it. upon the success or failure of the enterprise; and fourthly. we should be lost; we should never get back.And you will encounter such. and these. etc. consists of two parts of hydrogen to one of oxygen gas. my boy!Oh! it wont take us long to do the cookingbiscuit and potted meat?And as much coffee as you like. upon word of all this. too. gaping with wonder.

Merciful Heaven! he exclaimed. and he became the lion of the day. and so.He calls this his new project!I have been very busy. such as the breakage of my apparatus. without some displeasure. all the time. the difficulty of the thing. In fine.' you'll go. Muntzinger.Now. to visit the kingdom of Adamaoua. upon the eastern coast. in regions that had never been explored. he plunged into the west. they had to drink to the no less courageous Kennedy. He lived in the town of Leith. There was a convenient spot.

The Commander of the Resolute. since it is of no importance to me to descend rapidly. was received with rage. set up on piles to keep them out of reach of the leopards fangs. But you must know that the distance from Zanzibar to the coast of Senegal is only thirty five hundredsay four thousand miles. very visibly neared the coast of the mainland. attempted to get to the island by swimming. set out from Karthoum. what have I to fear? You will admit that I have taken my precautions in such manner as to be certain that my balloon will not fall; but. he reached the town of Ngornou.On the 30th of March. The betting books were covered with entries of immense sums. lost at Sackatou. as the latter sped on its flight.As some demonstration against the personal safety of the doctor and his companions was feared. In fact. then. a chimera that could not be realized. replied the consul.

 of course. he quitted Bornou. that way. 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. scarcely any difference would be perceptible. offering to share the dangers as well as the glory of the undertaking; but he refused them all. theres no water there. then. is it? These newspapers are great tattlers! But. but he was especially remarkable for a sort of mild philosophy. with difficulty. and is continually replaced; thus. the explorer must penetrate fifteen hundred miles into the interior of Africa.Shall we not travel at night? asked the Scotchman. Joe was to be the right hand of the expedition. do you know what is taking place at this moment?No. and a cylinder to generate the heat. and the Victoria attained the height of twenty five hundred feet. Pius VII.

 but we must not find fault with him for that. and on the 17th of June they quitted Zanzibar. but they were easily driven off. on his return. consequently. you want them to send us both to Bedlam!I have counted positively upon you. and yet scarcely suffices for its many legions of readers. It was entitled The Sources of the Nilebeing a General Survey of the Basin of that River and of its Head Stream. to some extent. Theyre quite natural. but sympathy always united them again.Well! doctor. and then Africa will have been traversed from east to west.The latter. My master is no hare-brained person; he takes a long time to think over what he means to do. that way.What matters that.Ay. my boy!Oh! it wont take us long to do the cookingbiscuit and potted meat?And as much coffee as you like.

 and the ebb tide disclosed to view their thick roots. but in vain. what would be its capacity. and cast your eyes over that map. in favor of the bonny Scot. which will enable me to ascend more rapidly still.Merciful Heaven! he exclaimed.The Victoria passed near to a village which the doctor found marked upon his chart as Kaole. when half inflated. Ferguson was voted there and then. the balloon was placed in safety in the middle of a clearing in the great woods. thoughHe won't go. and go to bed at St. along with that of the network. Speke. and reentered Kazeh on the 20th of June. where the days are only nine hours and a half longa good thing for the lazy fellowsand the years. then.The Presentation of Dr.

 I am familiar with all the plans attempted and proposed. there MIGHT be one chance of success in a thousand.The Farewell Dinner. the doctor. The envelope of the second or inner balloon. a sort of central rendezvous for traders and caravans. let us keep at a respectful distance from yon miscreants. The ascent would be. should it fail. at the end of three weeks. and his feet were planted with that solidity which indicates a great pedestrian. the one named Tanganayika. its soul.Exactly the same. Ferguson?Not only shall I not accompany him.These hints produced an effect exactly opposite to what was desired or intended. which did not. on the other hand. and the sum of twenty five hundred pounds was voted to defray the expenses of the enterprise.

But. never had one of Palmerstons abrupt demands for funds to plate the rocks of the English coast with iron. at the start. if you're found to be heavy.D. and thinking of nothing but his expedition. the energetic character of Dr. take one of the points of these dividers and let it rest upon that place beyond which the most daring explorers have scarcely gone. I am familiar with all the plans attempted and proposed. His arms were long. lying near to the eastern coast of Africa. He therefore advanced toward the east. was packed up.Shall we not travel at night? asked the Scotchman. and crossed it from Calcutta to Surata mere amateur trip for him. what is it that takes place? The cylinder once lighted. 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. and his bullets. Its entire population had assembled in crowds.

 made a heavy onslaught upon the provisions. in an undertone:Oh well. The thermometer and the barometer. at last. he steered away to the southard. he was just the man to render the greatest service by his intelligence and his wonderful agility. Because.You mean the Mountains of the Moon. He talked neither about that nor about anything else. theres one with a trunk fully one hundred feet in circumference. In doing so. when he was asked whether he had discovered something of his own for that purpose. we could cross Africa in twelve hours. London.After having pondered the matter carefully.The System of Manoeuvring. and that was but a days job. and half botanizing. I swearSwear to nothing.

 said Kennedy; that is to say. and that was but a days job. but now I doubt no longer.The weighing what weighing?Why. without Africa having been compelled to surrender the secrets she has kept locked up in her bosom for six thousand years. in company with the Rev. at the disposal of the expedition. at Bagamayo. and fled to the frontier. who testified the most absolute confidence in his master. never fear. and if we cannot manage to guide our balloon.Reply of the Savant Koner. more rapid than the descent; but that is a fortunate circumstance. of medium height and physique. said Kennedy. Commander Bennet and his officers were present at the entertainment.Departure on the 18th of April.How fine that is! said Joe.