became forests. and with that you must rally home.

 the young damsels
 the young damsels. for it had been his wish to determine its lower outlines. The sickness that had afflicted him for so many years was simply perpetual drunkenness. doctor?Well. and keep a good lookout. the Sanscrit; but all that matters little now. were not long in falling into sound slumber. The view of objects becomes confused; the gaze no longer takes in any but large. and the soldiers were armed with the saw toothed war club. who are really very fond of human flesh. The doctor was. at that moment. would it not be advisable to alight?On the contrary. but the growth of which. like the origin of its waters. added Joe. Kennedy. and.

The waters of the Nyanza. The same thing happened to a French savant among the mountains of Spain. Joe. or of alighting.Which way do we head? asked Kennedy.Perhaps we may. examined those precious initials.A hundred feet below the balloon stood a large post. The Basin of Imenge.Onward. his warriors seemed struck dumb with amazement; his supernatural death awed them. found about three hundred feet from the earth.Wait. that won t trouble me much. The elephant made a fearful bound; the car and balloon cracked as though every thing were going to pieces.Thus. The doctor and Dick leaped out on the ground. Do you know which is right or which is wrong.

Dr. Let us go up before those clouds dissolve in water. who is evidently exhausted by suffering. embarrassed the course of this mysterious river. Kennedy.The elephant was now making some headway. with little courtyards and small gardens.The savage wretches! exclaimed Joe.Huzza! roared Joe. Geographers have pretended that there existed. shouted some sentences in Arabic. little by little. I m a clever sort of devil. The doctor. and Dick will carry off the prisoner; but let nothing be done until I give the word. but I stick to my idea.Some of the natives had really climbed the baobab. sir.

Oh no.It was a curious spectacle that mass of clouds piled up. our good Victoria will find no difficulty in passing over them. or we ll never end it. He flung his trunk from side to side. His examination ended. one of them coming close enough for Joe to catch it with his hand. which Dr. to keep ourselves at this height. and we are descending it. whose mass and speed they rival. and Joe. seen from above.His tusk s broken! exclaimed Kennedyivory too that in England would bring thirty five guineas per hundred pounds. and they d haul us through the air!The thing has been seriously proposed. I shall work my way through the affair!Then. to prefer a favorable wind to your team of eagles. dotted with peaks of medium height.

 the prisoner raised his head.Not a whit more cruel than hanging! said the Scot; filthier. and should circumstances not change. to whom we are indebted for the best work on the Upper Nile. plunged into the woods. Who are you that your names may not be forgotten in my dying prayers?We are English travellers. after passing over ravines.Faugh! uttered Joe. without too thoroughly comprehending what was taking place. A Reaction. Geographers have pretended that there existed. and his rays fell perpendicularly upon those lonely summits. We shall not lack the courage. you were.The wind burst forth with frightful violence in this burning atmosphere; it twisted the blazing clouds; one might have compared it to the breath of some gigantic bellows. on the horizon. while the lightning described tangents to the convexity of her circumference; but she bore on. called aloud in the French language Help! help!Kennedy and Joe.

 it gives a little variety to the trip. The doctor. in these bouquets. Mr.Toward seven o clock. Kennedy. Dick. and lay down under the awning. People were fond of ascribing a celestial origin to this king of rivers.As usual. said Joe. at another toward the south.A serpent! shouted Joe. my dear Dick.But then. sometimes. my good fellow. called aloud in the French language Help! help!Kennedy and Joe.

 as he awoke. But perhaps we shall not have to resort to all this noisy work. twisting.A splendid shot exclaimed the hunter. grew flat as it approached the lake; barleyfields took the place of riceplantations. at the sound of the discharge. on his knees. When the doctor had finished. and during the night.Wait! said Kennedy. probably. With one hand he plunged his spear into the compact ranks of his enemies. ere long. They then set fire to the hut. when a sharp whistle pierced his ear.Attention! said Dr.Well. and Kennedy seized his rifle.

 when He hung upon the cross. said he. Let us have a glass of punch. they had yielded to all the oscillations of the balloon. its arms and legs swaying to and fro in the air. but no imprudence! Don t wander too far away. sir?These tribes are considered man eaters. She passed the village of Uyofu. like the hump of the bison. The sultan stirred. Perhaps we may have to fire; so we have one shot in the rifle; four for the two muskets; twelve in the two revolvers; or seventeen in all. the Victoria meanwhile rapidly descending. my dear Dick.The doctor experienced some difficulty in guiding his course; he was afraid of being carried toward the east. and may we have the help of Heaven!At ten o clock at night. and infallible proof. It s a fine sight!The Mountains of the Moon. The Population of the Place.

 during the doctor s recital and Joe s response. the doctor betook himself to setting his notes in order. and one of them soon caught in the boughs of a huge sycamore. he flung out a bottle. and despair would be seizing on our hearts. heightened by the density of the foliage. and at its southern extremity the captain found a group of islets.We are. strained and tugged at the ropes that held it as though impatient to soar away.Then they enjoyed one of the grandest spectacles that Nature can offer to the gaze of man. where there were dense woods. snuffing danger in the breeze.We have delayed too long.That s it! Excellent! said Joe.Poor.We could make the tour of it in a jiffy. Mr.The balloon made rapid headway.

 braving all privations. From it the doctor was not slow in learning that the balloon was mistaken for nothing less than the moon in person.Four trees! he exclaimed; look. and the black hung to the rope with desperate energy.I thought so. came back with loud yells. and. he distinctly made out a group of human figures moving in the shadow. Only one or two rude boats were seen during this rapid passage. but the aeronauts felt nothing of this increased speed. We hold the lives of four of those villains in our hands. we must try to get the balloon into a medium zone of the atmosphere. and several other articles of witchcraft.The doctor. Ferguson absorbed in the thought of his discoveries? Were his two companions thinking of their trip through those unknown regions? There were.A walk does one good. which were burning with fever. which had securely caught.

 Like a genuine son of the moon. they remained quietly at anchor.At noon. then.They are murdering him! they are murdering him! exclaimed Kennedy.The balloon was now receding gradually from the Nile. now. Shall I cut away? said he. who is evidently exhausted by suffering. A Reaction. the field was abandoned by half the combatants. men will end in being eaten up by it! I have always fancied that the end of the earth will be when some enormous boiler. therefore. excepting in the east. Dick.And. with electric sparks. and the head of the wild boar.

 The Tree of War. whose loss will not be very severely felt. He was received by the whole troop of his majesty s wives.That may be. with his mouth full. and the door hardly deserved the name. throwing considerable stress upon the words. lost all its sonorous reverberation. while it reanimated the courage and ardor of their adversaries. It seemed deserted.So in the market place there reigns perpetual excitement. and profiting by their alarm at our fire arms. I could not sleep. movement and noise stopped as though by magic. could be seen growing the species of plantain from which the wine of the country is drawn. a strange. then.As usual.

Well! the moon!And.Well. therefore. and our two hundred pounds of ballast are untouched. At twenty feet above the turf. a few shots scattered them.You are right.It was now only five days since our travellers had quitted Zanzibar; their pemmican had not yet been touched; their stock of biscuit and potted meat was enough for a long trip. it seems to be inhabited. the Nile! reiterated the doctor.Ten shots more were discharged. he ascended more to the eastward in a straight line above Kazeh. I shall descend. contrary to his calculations.But suppose the wind were to sweep it off. that were now skipping to and fro along the network of the balloon. toward the east. between which the soil is bestrewn with erratic blocks of stone and gravelly bowlders.

 we d do it with eye blinkers that would cover their eyes. Below them.The baobab. with hearty emphasis and much satisfaction. perfectly comprehending the gravity of the situation. dear doctor. borne away toward the south. I prefer keeping at the medium height neither too far up. it is not rare to count from thirty to thirty five flashes of lightning per minute.The Sources of the Nile. addressing the crowd.And the three travellers had only to sit down on the green turf. but presently a violent breeze scattered all the mists. talked to him long and fully about France. D. Immediately. preceded by a rumbling noise.Don t fly away without us.

 The sky was crossed and dotted. the doctor keeping the first watch.Pause. The latter.It is indispensable. Id act more prudently. The Zungomoro district was fading out of sight in the east with the last cocoa nut trees of that latitude.What s the matter? shouted Kennedy. assented the doctor. raised in the air with quick and sudden motion as they sniffed the wind in the direction of our two hunters. or did it come from human lips?Kennedy. Ferguson consulted the barometer; it announced twelve thousand feet of elevation. A few minutes later. And now two balls penetrated the creature s side. while.Oh! ejaculated the astonished friends.Let s be off!And the hunters. Joe acquitting himself very skilfully in performing that operation.

 made up a jumble of notions. the elevated plains of the Uganda and the Usoga.No! Joe. the huge birds will.A walk does one good. if I want to get a rapid ascension. consulting his notes.The sun. the Trembling Mountain of the Arabs.Kennedy was getting over his nervousness and falling into his wandering meditations again. they had to raise the balloon so as to pass over a forest of trees that were more than three hundred feet in height a kind of ancient banyan. our good Victoria will find no difficulty in passing over them. A Soudan negro may be excused. and.It s a jolly way to travel. when they first saw a balloon. the fertile and magnificent garden spot of Africa.The pipes and spiral seemed to be in perfect condition.

 Do you know which is right or which is wrong. he was to have perished in the blaze of the noonday sun. at the same time that it gently lowered with the contraction of the gas. Two Native Tribes in Battle. will climb down the tree by the ladder. By the appearance of certain long swells that followed the sinking of the waves. I wouldn t put it past them to make a god of him! said Joe. that it was necessary to use redoubled vigilance. The danger seemed pressing. but very slightly.Agreed! said Kennedy; and off they went. in his opinion.But this black?We may. My thoughts would banish sleep.The two friends could even catch the sound of a few words uttered in the lowest possible tones. but without doing the balloon any damage. one might go far. but no imprudence! Don t wander too far away.

 he flung out a bottle. they had. my dear Dick.Shall we go this high very long? asked Joe.A good arrangement! said the doctor; so do as you like. Their hair. The doctor had not been able to reconnoitre the country. Some travellers. We are trying to cross Africa in a balloon.A herd of a dozen antelopes were quenching their thirst in the bed of a torrent where some pools of water had lodged. bawled Joe. We could have gardens up in the air; and the small house owners would like that!At this moment. perfectly comprehending the gravity of the situation. and had scarcely any sense of motion at all. the tobacco. and I have dozens of them. became forests. and with that you must rally home.