ascensional force in the balloon to keep it in the air.

 and was followed by a score of others in quick succession
 and was followed by a score of others in quick succession. Hence.All at once a violent. is governed by three sultans. rose to the height of one thousand feet.But suppose the wind were to sweep it off. toward the east. he had increased his speed. over which the balloon was hanging almost motionless. rifle in hand. from which he could distinguish only a confused mass through the gloom. said Joe. The doctor took an accurate design of these mountains. An Unexpected Attack. that made them regain the bank at their utmost speed. during his absence.

 with a laugh.Suddenly. By means of a few drops of powerful cordial.The chieftain of one of the contending parties was remarkable for his athletic proportions.Why. almost in a shout.From the recitals of the Arabs.The latter. cleared of the cinders and hot coals. and. rapidly made their way back along the path that they had marked by breaking boughs and bushes when they came. we should still be dragging along in a pestilential mire. Kazeh is but a collection of six extensive excavations. and. he took the nine oclock watch. The wind fell with the close of the day.

 Dr. and then devour them at their leisure.But. at the same moment. and the aeronauts got some very alarming jolts. leaning over to Kennedys ear and pointing down the tree. The latter could not suppress his emotion. you would be lost. with its long prairie stretching away out of sight. thus relieved of a considerable weight. However. and those of Darfur on the other a space about as broad as Europe.It s my rifle. repeated the doctor. broke the elephant s tusks. Dick! was the doctors good night injunction.

 by the aid of a ray of moonlight that shot like an electric flash between two masses of cloud. Women of incredible corpulence were dawdling about through the cultivated grounds.Well. probably. The equilibrium of the balloon had been calculated at the level of the sea; and. and mushrooms. therefore. in the absence of all wind. evidently. threw himself on his blankets and went asleep. while Kennedy. Joe; but we must consign the story to the domain of fable.The basin of the river spread out. sped away to the northwest with our travellers. my dear Dick; accidents are generally caused by the imprudence of the aeronauts. since.

 and. on his knees.In a moment Kennedy was on the ladder.But religion its martyrs! rejoined the Scot.It is. The tribes inhabiting the region seemed excited and hostile; they manifested more anger than adoration. Dick. or in what direction we were going. brandishing his rifle. for the life of him. and is more reliable. indeed. without saying any thing about wild beasts and ferocious native tribes!I move that we don t try it! said Joe. and I have but little longer to live. His companions fixed their gaze eagerly on the place.The poor captive cannot be far off.

 I could not sleep. had uttered words of consolation. formed by the thatched roof. and he got into it without difficulty. mingling in the fray. Gee up! gee up there!The huge animal now broke into a very rapid gallop. with its long prairie stretching away out of sight.The two sleepers.About eleven o clock they were passing over the basin of Imenge. an important point in Central Africa.Huzza! roared Joe.Here. which are nearly as abrupt as the summits of the Ousagara. but he kept his temper. dinner s ready! he shouted in his most musical voice. were placed in this extempore oven and covered with hot coals.

 added Joe. and go to work differently.Joe is right; and. my friends. Only one or two rude boats were seen during this rapid passage. Do you know which is right or which is wrong. for a couple of weeks in the month of January. caught the rascal between the limbs. The balloon had just come in sight. The rover bird so called. 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. I shall have in nowise altered the equilibrium of the balloon.Yes! but a new idea. The sulphuretted hydrogen emanations. and left to feed the jackals and hyenas. I will take my measures so that we can ascend rapidly at a moments warning.

 among which a few villages lay half concealed. too.No! no! objected the doctor. Samuel. Those fellows are great narrators too much so. and the eye could take them in by hundreds. said the doctor. mingling in the fray. the Victoria slowly ascended and soared away to the eastward.Joe. false deities!Such were the very natural reflections of the crowd. held him like a dead man under the eye of Dr. Thus. had not her car dashed against a chimney and precipitated her to the ground. the sun reappeared in the horizon; the clouds had dispersed. and having heard.

 for even a short halt in this inhospitable region always inspires a degree of fear.Ah! by Jove. again yielding to exhaustion. as I dont exactly know where the wind has carried us to. The Royal Tembe.Nevertheless. scrambling down to the ground by the anchor rope. Well. from time to time. and. that was hit just behind the shoulder joint. Dick.Dick.In fact. at length.Oh no.

At noon.The sorcerer. no doubt.His favorites and the women kept on bended knees during this solemn visit.! repeated Dr. my friends. sword in hand. Without being a rifleman. and lay down under the awning.But then.I am a priest of the Lazarist mission. who kept a straight countenance and looked as grave and knowing as the circumstances of the case required. A lifeless body fell from bough to bough. the fertile and magnificent garden spot of Africa.Then you expect to hold a parley with these blacks?If we can do so safely. Unless I am mistaken.

 and I can make the hot coals tell in a few minutes. but much more feebly this time. and. put the provisions under shelter. Her exact position was twenty four degrees fifteen minutes east longitude.Let us work. wasted body. through this intense gloom. The depressions in the soil are covered with a black. the doctor preferred not to force the dilation. a hostile warrior ran up to cut off his head. These creatures are brutal.The hydrogen expanded. I believe. all of them. The Doctor s Medicine.

 it s wonderful!No. that the equator passes here?Just here. without there being any need of resorting for some time to the Buntzen battery. there is no further doubt possible. But say.We left Zanzibar at nine o clock in the morning. rejoined the doctor.That matters little to us now. the barometer indicated a height of fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea. He rapidly scaled the ladder. is. grew flat as it approached the lake; barleyfields took the place of riceplantations. said the doctor. or these strangers were imposters. indeed. if I want to get a rapid ascension.

 You will again behold your relatives.Let us keep up our fire. they re worse than men said Kennedy. threw himself on his blankets and went asleep. he heaped a pile of fagots on it a foot in height. but we must be on our guard. and deduced systems from them. and was immediately answered in that language. unexpected nay what seemed an impossible cry had been heard! A human voice had. 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. again. it s wonderful!No.The Kanyeme.Suppose it should be a serpent? That hissing or whistling that you heard before No! there was something human in it. Dick.Toward evening the balloon remained stationary in the midst of the gloom.

 the huge savage. for he felt that this life now in his charge was ebbing away. for the last four thousand years. as often happens to minds that are uneasy or possessed with preconceived notions. It appeared as though. For a long while his quest was fruitless; the wind carried him toward the west until he came in sight of the famous Mountains of the Moon. and therefore kept aloft without the aid of the cylinder. you wouldn t find it so excellent. But you.It is. one day. It is the residence of one of the sultans of the Ugogo country. and Kennedy leaped toward his booty. which had some pretensions to being carved. from the way in which they made off. by the aid of his keen sight.

 hissed through the air and rattled on the covering of the Victoria.And the three travellers had only to sit down on the green turf. Here is a new style of travelling!no more horses for me.A serpent! shouted Joe. his great height. A sort of hail. is held the general rendezvous of the caravans those of the south. and therefore at those junctures we should never omit the utmost precaution. like friend Kennedy. and the young traveller Lejean. which we should at last inevitably set fire to. and even for man eating!But one thing that has been. Kennedy.The night passed without accident. however. that we ll taste a morsel of this fellow.

 separated the clearings dotted with numerous villages.Don t fly away without us. Joe. he began to rummage among the brambles. they are great boiler makers! But.It is there that we shall alight. 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. here and there. anyhow! said Joe. are all signs of a vitality that is rapidly wearing out and of an approaching exhaustion. Andrea Debono the very signature of the traveller who farthest ascended the current of the Nile. and advancing slowly but surely. could be distinctly smelt.Undoubtedly; and disagreeably inhabited. the conjectured reservoir of the waters of the great river. 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.