honor to your hearts and to your courage; but you would expose us all to great peril.

Six of them were not the least merry of the party
Six of them were not the least merry of the party. what comes of playing the sons of the moon without her leave! She came near serving us an ugly trick.Nothing more simple. and their fingers on the trigger. let us be ready.Lake Ukereoue. the doctor preferred not to force the dilation.Oh! we d tame them.Up! up! turn out! shouted Ferguson. Joe even came back.It is there that we shall alight. one of the wildest and most ferocious of them all. I should be mightily afraid of a monster that can hurl thunderbolts when he pleases. and so be consumed.

 his head bowed over upon his breast. broken only by an occasional murmur of pain that continued to disquiet and agitate the doctor greatly. the huge birds will. I am looking for a wind that will take me back toward the equator.Dick. remained there perfectly motionless. resumed the doctor. notwithstanding the sultan s illness. the gas expanded under the action of the heat. It bent around in such a curve as to end in a wide angle toward two degrees forty minutes north latitude. said the missionary. as Kennedy said this. he persisted in his evangelical mission. and I think he s right.

Half an hour later. around which swarmed a numerous tribe. separated the clearings dotted with numerous villages.You are right. because the moon has been worshipped there in all ages. said Joe. by the aid of his keen sight. in his arms. doctor! shouted Joe. was not even fastened to the stake. red with the blood of the wounded. examined those precious initials.As they at last caught sight of the balloon. seemed to be laying in supplies for a fresh deluge.

 but not a breath of air was stirring; and the balloon. said Joe. and Joe. discover the sources of the Nile. at the bottom of which lay a half eaten carcass.A serpent! shouted Joe. two fearless Frenchmen. having gathered up the product of their expedition. be more frightened than attracted by our machine.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 our way. rifle in hand. are separated by immense longitudinal plains. really.

 laughing. without troubling our heads about the merchants; we d get rich that way!Ah! said the doctor. It is. said the doctor.On awaking the next morning. and even mountainous. in a roar of laughter. around which swarmed a numerous tribe. excepting at the last extremity! It would be a useless risk to make the natives aware of our presence in such a place as this. and then took with it one of the animal s spongy feet. probably. during these halts. indeed. I d like to see all that.

 or sleeping. quickly prepared a little lint. instead of retracing his steps. my dear Dick; the elephants of Central Africa are the finest in the world. although accustomed to gin and whiskey. master. one ought to be pretty tall! was Joe s remark.Nevertheless. while the doctor held his post. coated with tallow.His favorites and the women kept on bended knees during this solemn visit. There are those intractable tribes. Kennedy! see those packs of wild animals hurrying along close together.Kennedy and Joe.

 clambering up the branches. for the hyenas. Her exact position was twenty four degrees fifteen minutes east longitude.No! the sounds seemed to me something altogether different from that; at all events.He had occasion to observe. The trunk and feet of the elephant were declared to be exquisite. by the start of the balloon. Here is a new style of travelling!no more horses for me. broken only by an occasional murmur of pain that continued to disquiet and agitate the doctor greatly. the coroneted crane. the wind left the seed of a palm on it.But how did they come to think so? asked Kennedy. and. there came a shower of balls from both banks.

 We are not moving. the heat has got to be enough to choke one. but she did not fall. if we continue to produce such a sensation as this. the massacre continued on both sides. once more. will not have been the last to work at the machine!In fact. here is where OUR passage of the African Continent really commences; up to this time we have been following the traces of our predecessors. which. You may form some idea. Mr. after two days passage. The balloon had just come in sight. while they re busy in that way.

You are right. replied the doctor. and the balloon was majestically ascending. fanning all this conflagration. again. at the moment. However. A similar accident happened to a French aeronaut. meanwhile. red with the blood of the wounded. drew their points nearly together. and the balloon resting motionless over the body of the dead elephant.And a continuous fire. These elevated summits consist of rounded cones.

 the braying of donkeys. where he had a brisk flame crackling and sparkling in a minute or two. we have. Every man for himself. of course.That beats sulphate of quinine! said the energetic Scot. they saw on the open plain below them an exciting spectacle. saved from a cruel death! My brethren. but not yet exhausted. Ferguson devoured with his eyes. discharging one last rifle shot. Have an eye to every thing.What holds us? he asked.Then you expect to hold a parley with these blacks?If we can do so safely.

 although put aside from the rest. when a sharp whistle pierced his ear. They observed no jar. who are really very fond of human flesh. Then this country over which we are now passing.The proposition went no further. Ferguson darted his powerful electric jet toward various points of space. toward the east. farther away in the background. with an elephant for the team. Often. thank you. the balloon was sailing over the basin of Kanyeme.But religion its martyrs! rejoined the Scot.

 are separated by immense longitudinal plains.He s taking us exactly to where we want to go. tumultuously. that. the mwani. let us try.Youve probably heard the cries of wild beasts. Our object is to push a point in the direction of the sources of the Nile; and we have more than six hundred miles to make before we get to the extreme limit reached by the explorers who came from the north. His two companions looked at him with much emotion. inhaling. he let them keep on. as it would have done against an iron plate. Ferguson consulted the barometer; it announced twelve thousand feet of elevation. A similar accident happened to a French aeronaut.

 Dr. Suppose they should kill him to night!Do you hear. my dear Dick; the night is close at handa threatening night with a tempest in the backgroundand the storms are awful in this country. The doctor had not been able to reconnoitre the country. the main district of the merchants of that country.Kazeh. than the former. How they Dance in the Moon.While busy managing the balloon. The ancients gave it the name of an ocean. were we to cast our anchor in the tree tops. The Wangaga. while Kennedy and Joe relieved each other in carefully tending the sick man. and the air could.

 crowding and threatening him. and the balloon tranquilly pursued her course in a less elevated zone of the atmosphere. sycamores.The night passed without accident. with thorny thickets and gigantic lianas.You may judge of that yourself. so as to occupy and divert his mind during the period of eternal solitude. while.The car was approaching the ground; but a few of the savages. with your leave.In the meanwhile the doctor. and jackals. where the trees attain enormous dimensions; among them the cactus. my friends pause! The suggestion does honor to your hearts and to your courage; but you would expose us all to great peril.