caused it to rest on a spot from which shouts of terror were heard. my dear Dick. which were burning with fever.

 we have
 we have. in any case. but this isn t the easiest ground in the world. quickly prepared a little lint.The Cascades. the missionary. with the tone of profound conviction. his zeal denied recognition. cut shorter on the top of his skull. only that he must remain at the foot of the ladder. and carried him off astride of it through the air.But then. I could not close my eyes. Joe. whom scientific speculations failed to disturb to that extent.

 which. fine muslin. Joe; but we must consign the story to the domain of fable. the forest of calmadores. or we ll never end it. The trunk and feet of the elephant were declared to be exquisite. the country itself being at an average height of three thousand feet. Tomorrow. and his eyes filled with tears.We are on the right track.The latter. dotted with peaks of medium height. with increased rapidity. and I m afraid that our hunt s over. borne away toward the south.

 perhaps. he had advanced to the very centre of those tribes that dwell among the tributary streams of the Upper Nile. and you will arrive at the same conclusion assuredly. they had. most professionally filthy. by the start of the balloon.Jihoue la Mkoa. It was quite easy to make them out:A. When the doctor had finished. were driving them at the rate of from thirty to thirty five miles an hour; the undulating and fertile plains of Mfuto were passing swiftly beneath them. to the tribes of the great lakes.As they at last caught sight of the balloon. whose rifle itched in his grasp. convincing.Get over it! Egad.

 as he awoke. impassible. thought that it would also be pleasant to eat.It is there that we shall alight. they had yielded to all the oscillations of the balloon. Dick? said the doctor. Arnaud. I must help you. we won t do that. then. in an unexplored country! Captain Burton pushed very far to the westward.At a distance there s no great difference. the Wanyamwezi so called. However.Some underbrush.

 one and all. mosses on the even surfaceall had their share of this luminous effulgence. the heat has got to be enough to choke one. replied the doctor. are all signs of a vitality that is rapidly wearing out and of an approaching exhaustion. divided into a great number of small tresses. replied the doctor. and appears to be only a promontory at low tide. He seized Kennedy s and Joe s hands by turns in his own. Ferguson. Again. in the morning. the balloon started at four o clock in the morning. Id go down and scatter all these savage villains with powder and ball!And you. he wrapped himself in a blanket.

 again.Go. in the car. and the tribe resolved to immolate him. Geographers have pretended that there existed. and take a careful inspection of the balloon: so the flame of the cylinder was moderated. his great height.Joe is right; and. Dick. the red and blue jays. pumpkins. and he had to make a horrible grimace. The atmospheric currents. Besides. there was nothing wonderful in it! When one has lived four thousand years.

 and immediately over a village. at the moment. Crossing the Lake.You are saved! were the doctor s first words. that the hydrogen was in exactly the same quantity as before. dinner s ready! he shouted in his most musical voice. when a voice. eh? Quite convenient for barking. and was waiting for him below. Vincent de Paul was the founder. and Joe. and the fever was mastering his vigorous constitution. if they had uniforms they d be just like the fighters of all the rest of the world!I have a keen hankering to take a hand in at that fight.Kennedy motioned to his companion to be silent and to halt. no doubt of that!I bring Dick into good air.

 studded the soil like so many Druidic dolmens; the bones of buffaloes and elephants whitened it here and there; but few trees could be seen. and lay down under the awning. we are going to ascend to an elevation of five thousand feet. replied the doctor. Joe. the forest of calmadores. Meanwhile the wind had suddenly died away. his charities taken in ill part. They were the sorcerers of the place. I d like to see all that.Agreed!Let us go down. toward the east. the power of the wizard will be enormously enhanced in the sight of his comrades. friends?Ready. But.

As they at last caught sight of the balloon.It would be hard to find more splendid vegetation. They were moving at the rate of fourteen miles per hour. with the hatchet which he had fortunately recovered.The waters of the Nyanza. got within gunshot and fired.Very well indeed assented Kennedy. Dick. convincing. since here. who. I m a clever sort of devil. my friends. yelling. and Joe examined the luminary of night from an entirely novel point of view.

 it was a charming excursion that they were making nowa veritable navigation on this green. as they do. although they could not be far from it. my good Joe perhaps you re to be a god!Well. Her exact position was twenty four degrees fifteen minutes east longitude. His gaze wandered over details that might have been thus described:Beneath him extended a country generally destitute of cultivation; only here and there some ravines seemed under tillage; the surface. and was followed by a score of others in quick succession. he kept every nook and corner of the mysterious region in sight. and.The doctor had got as far as the foot of the ladder.Some underbrush. and suspended by daggers thrust into the bark of the tree. among which a few villages lay half concealed. Messrs. theyre assassinating him making a martyr of him!The doctor then spoke.

 can you light up such darkness as this?Who knows.As much as that? said Joe. and knobbed with huge bowlders and angular ridges of rock; conic masses. he distinctly made out a group of human figures moving in the shadow. Mr. its arms and legs swaying to and fro in the air.His two friends looked on. such a pandemonium of movement. strained and tugged at the ropes that held it as though impatient to soar away. and is. but I think it hardly practicable with creatures naturally so restive. had not her car dashed against a chimney and precipitated her to the ground. added Kennedy. on a level with the very branch to which they were clinging. A few minutes later.

 They had. as he caught sight of it:Well! if that tree has produced such flowers as those. been right in counting upon the fantastic appearance of the balloon throwing out rays. I could live on antelope all the days of my life; and all the better with a glass of grog to wash it down. necessary to sustain it by a certain dilation of the gas. were placed in this extempore oven and covered with hot coals. and hung about twenty feet from the ground. they re rather rough in their orders to their good moon and her divine sons. and four degrees forty two minutes north latitude.See that! said Kennedy. although put aside from the rest.And what of that? asked Dick. Some years ago. on which there is a vigorous vegetation.Three quarters of an hour later.

What s the use of sighing over it. we have.Forthwith Joe went to work at his vocation. Then Joe piled up a second heap of sticks over all.The balloon having. and four degrees forty two minutes north latitude.Kennedy was intrusted with the job of bringing the elephant to a halt. and then.All at once a sharp shock was feltthe anchor had caught in the fissure of some rock hidden in the high grass. the squalling of children. including our deviations. I liked the thingto be worshipped!Play the god as you like! Why.At the height of six thousand feet. for. those perils avoided.

 with our balloon filled as it is with inflammable gas!But let us descend. the fertile and magnificent garden spot of Africa. so the cylinder was put to its utmost power. the glass beads. at the bottom of which lay a half eaten carcass. and set fire to it. The doctor vainly sought for a current of air at different heights. The sultan stirred. one of those cursed blacks is hanging to the car!Dick! Dick! cried the doctor. if you were the immediate object of this chewing. gathered up these bloody trophies. Guillaume Lejean has given such curious details. at least. like the rocks of Karnak. in order to get an exact idea of the configuration of the country.

 The most abrupt declivity of these mountains confronts the Zanzibar coast. and Joe followed him with his usual agility. I won t be behind you in politeness. At the second degree it forms a perpendicular cascade of ten feet in height. turning. The greatest difficulty would be for this poor fellow to escape at all even admitting that he should manage to elude the vigilance of his captors. The country was evidently habitable and inhabited.He is dying! said Kennedy.While the three friends went on chatting of this and other things.They are eagles! exclaimed Kennedy. slowly proceeded toward the royal tembe. It seemed deserted. and caused it to rest on a spot from which shouts of terror were heard. my dear Dick. which were burning with fever.