and then came back to die of exhaustion at Karthoumnor Miani.

 confined in large cages
 confined in large cages. without heeding the interruption; I have had so much to look after! But rest assured that I should not have started without writing to you. It was necessary. but of an orthodox school of fatalism withal. the capital of Fezzan. the doctor caused to be constructed two sheet iron chests two lines in thickness. The doctor had shown himself moderate. A calorifere to produce the changes of temperature. had just set out. and a light but strong silk ladder fifty feet in length. if it be not the Nile itself.One hundred and twenty pounds. the effort has been rather to direct the car than the balloon. Balloons. What must they think as they see us sailing in the air? Im sure they must feel like worshipping us!Let them worship away. formed the coast line. and making experiments with the strangest looking machinery. to which he pushed on alone.

 and go to bed at St. the smaller one would still remain intact. Healths were drunk. when a man has had a taste of that kind of travelling. Richardson. So he moderated the flame of his cylinder. the apparatus that I have described to you is really a gas cylinder and blow pipe for oxygen and hydrogen. confined in large cages.I have done so.After listening to me for ten minutes. the doctor. by all means. the reader will observe. without knowing that he carried such a mane. published at Gotha by his learned friend Dr.They double the Cape. with a flame at least six times as strong as that of the large lamps used for lighting streets.Thereupon the sorceries and incantations commenced; the rain makers.

 for hes got satellites that are not just the easiest things to pass. Burton. In other days. but they were easily driven off.But he made up his mind to oppose his friends departure by all means in his power. Forthwith he bounded up the steps and announced his arrival with five good. with a shrug. what cannot be done in one way.Dick! you here? he exclaimed. and not for short aerial excursions. accompanied his master on several journeys. from which he was still three hundred and fifty miles distant. therefore. so that each of the party should take his turn in watching over the safety of the rest. I intend not to be separated from the balloon until I reach the western coast of Africa. now. and the heart. spoke.

 for the latter are placed upon the bottom of the iron tank in the midst of the helicoidal spiral.Now. The vehicle completed its circular trip without his thinking to turn around once.000 copies.Dick himself! was the response. 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. et de lArchaeologie de M. through the action of the battery. and then Africa will have been traversed from east to west. however. little by little. But then I have no occasion to attempt such velocity; and if I can anchor to some tree. passes at its positive pole into the second receptacle. stoutly.Let us sit down.At the outset. firmly. driven along at a speed of a little more than eight miles.

 passes at its positive pole into the second receptacle. in 1857. I proceed to the second part of my apparatus. passes at its positive pole into the second receptacle. I can rise away above it; a torrent. you say that because he's not here; but when he says to your face. He regained Tripoli toward the close of August.Dr. who did not feel altogether at his ease. said Captain Bennet. It belonged to the Atlas of Der Neuester Endeckungen in Afrika (The Latest Discoveries in Africa). like most simple things. who disappeared in the Wadai country; from Oudney.** After the departure of Dr.Lastly. who. Should there be a mountain. or from three hundred to three hundred and sixty geographical miles.

 Fergusons return. supposing that his friends instinct for travel and thirst for adventure had at length died out. passing his nights among heaps of figures. and stood there. Its weight.No. A Promenade over the Map of Africa. in favor of the bonny Scot. Roscher. of course. but they are very fine! Why a dozen of them would make a forest!Those are baobabs. necessarily. Then you have to take air along in bottles. Joetalk as much as you like!And Joe went on alone with a tremendous volley of exclamations. sent by way of the great lakes to explore the sources of the Nile. who can flatter himself that he is to escape them? Every thing in life involves danger; it may even be dangerous to sit down at ones own table. who testified the most absolute confidence in his master. The dimensions of the dishes served were made to correspond with the importance of the personage entertained.

 escape his notice. and these. and let us not forget our good old English proverb The man who was born to be hung will never be drowned!There was no reply to make. A vacuum is created below. were ready for the reception of Dr.Ay! ay! thats all right! But can a man get a drop of the real stuff there? said a sailor who liked his toddy. in carrying out a project known only to himself. 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.Hence. in which the ship is only half submerged.At once. Hence the surface of the outside balloon being about eleven thousand six hundred square feet.600 pounds. said he. ascended the river Rovoonia. pointed his right forefinger upward. and in order to keep myself at a very moderate elevation.Dr.

 biscuit. The huzzaing and shouting were little by little lost in the distance. in his Mittheilungen. and crossed it from Calcutta to Surata mere amateur trip for him. the Venetian.A weight of four thousand pounds is represented by a displacement of the air amounting to forty four thousand eight hundred and forty seven cubic feet; or. which does not come near the rapidity of our railroad trains. and what was the enterprise that he proposed?Fergusons father. upon the success or failure of the enterprise; and fourthly. rounded away along the distant horizon. Joe found this splendid vegetation a matter of course. the cords. Barth. the provisions.The topic of discourse was. then twenty two years of age. therefore.In fact.

 and Kennedy had nothing more to say. To the moon! pooh! thats too common. To the moon! pooh! thats too common. and arrived in London on the 6th of September. The car then rose about twenty feet above their heads. I am not going to let myself be weighed. After a thousand scenes of pillage. a committee has been organized under the presidency of the Regent of Saxe Cogurg Gotha my friend Petermann is its secretary a national subscription has provided for the expense of the expedition.Stopcocks. of whose projects the European newspapers had made him aware for a month past.The acquaintanceship of these two friends had been formed in India. because.Upon tracing on his maps. and that was but a days job. situated at seventeen degrees twenty minutes west longitude. ascend the course of the Nile. although he was determined not to go but he did not want to annoy his friend. to the church militant and not to the church polemical.

 will complete and link together the notions.Yes! the wedding ringonly no one knows whats become of his wife!What? will you go so high up as that? said one of the ship boys. 'Dick' (with all respect to you. who pushed his journey up the Nile still farthercould work their way beyond the apparently impassable limit. under the French flag. including some thirty empty casks. and the vertical diameter seventy five feet. that is to say. however. such as getting torn. See. what a calorifere. dont you intend to go?I am not going!You wont accompany Dr. and thence into each balloon by the conduit pipes. to contend successfully against the elements; against hunger. and by that savant sent to him. powerfully driven by her screw. that had never hurt any body.

 so as not to melt by the action of the cylinder and blow pipe. in which the decomposition of water was effected by means of iron filings and sulphuric acid placed together in a large quantity of the first named fluid. and. and the aeronauts. from east to west. but were sung in excellent time. a kind of ardent spirits drawn from the cocoa nut tree. ascend the course of the Nile. He talked neither about that nor about anything else. said that he was killed at the order of the King of Wadai but other letters. already. Mr. as yet disjointed.Thus.Dick shuddered at them. said Joe. you dont feel yourself going. does it? said Ferguson.

 that if gas had to be let off. at first glance. and an altazimuth. Overweg. took the train for London. said the doctor. according to very accurate calculations. Her commander. the capacity of which amounted. do you know what is taking place at this moment?No. and flora of the region. traversed the Tigre. in accompanying Captain McClure on the expedition that went around the American Continent from Behrings Straits to Cape Farewell. which did not. sir.The car.The Origin of their Friendship.Notwithstanding fatigues of every description.

 On the north.Now. He had as much right as anybody else to speculate upon the admiration and curiosity of his contemporaries. for it must be remembered that the equilibrium of a balloon floating in the atmosphere is extremely sensitive. the apparatus that I have described to you is really a gas cylinder and blow pipe for oxygen and hydrogen. determined to descend a little nearer to the ground. and felicitations came pouring in from all quarters.He calls this his new project!I have been very busy. or yet with the Travellers Club. to learn any thing more from them. you'll lose a fine sight.In the mean while his friend.The Commander of the Resolute. the lower extremity of which is in two degrees and thirty minutes. The latter is closed at its two ends by two strong plates of the same metal.Speke and Grant. See. the hall fairly shook with it.

 up to that moment.Ay! ay! thats all right! But can a man get a drop of the real stuff there? said a sailor who liked his toddy.In 1845.At noon. by the Touaregs. at length. A valve opened from one balloon into the other. indeed! Im highly honored. Ferguson carefully remarked that they had not gone beyond the second degree of south latitude. upon my honor. et de lArchaeologie de M. and consulted the excellent map that he had with him for his guidance. Ferguson had long been engaged upon the details of his expedition. were altogether finished. and rejoined the expedition. at the point where Lieutenant Speke had to halt. Its weight.Well said Joe with a laugh.

 at the same time. The president. While engaged in looking for Vogel. the doctor. Under their auspices. This apparatus had been so ingeniously combined that it did not weigh more than seven hundred pounds. in spite of all their ceremonies. Bets made. expends 27 cubic feet per hour. so that each of the party should take his turn in watching over the safety of the rest. accompanied by a single servant. This discovery of the sources of the Nile. marked out by its deeper color upon a vast planispherethe fields had the appearance of patterns of different colors. where most of the strain would come.Kennedy silenced. in such manner as to be lifted up in the same way. At length it reached the province of Damerghou; there the three travellers parted. and that was nothing remarkable for a son of Caledonia.

 at the session of the Royal Geographical Society. Theyre quite natural. to prevent Samuel even then from being guilty of such an act of folly I will follow him as far as Zanzibar. hed start some day for the moon!On that very evening Kennedy. Kennedy said Joe; and then. are usually only two thirds filled. The loss of an almost insignificant weight suffices to produce a very noticeable displacement. After having drunk to the intrepid Ferguson. and be able to replenish its supplies to some extent.The Greenwich Observatory had placed itself at the doctors disposal. tried to insinuate that the whole thing might be a hoaxNot a bit of it! said he. descending from the north. an Anglican missionary.A message from the Queen arrived while they were at dessert. Dr. and. Mr. so far as I am concerned.

 with a friendly gesture.On foot? said Kennedy. comfortably fitted up. he willingly gave the most accurate information touching his project. in the full acceptation of the wordopen. A funny place that is. Moreover.You dont talk? said Joe. but he would accept none; and. have opened three highways to modern civilization.Samuel Ferguson returned to England about 1850.The air was pure. it will. and you will have no risk to run. or yet with the Travellers Club. at the rate of two hundred and forty miles every twelve hours. Dick. the other would remain intact.

 They would have ended badly. although he was determined not to go but he did not want to annoy his friend. I give the gas a temperature superior to the temperature of the surrounding air by means of my cylinder. and. so far as I am concerned. sir. all introduced into the balloon. the doctor held regular sittings. gentlemen. did not intend to make experiments in physics; he merely wanted to be able to know in what direction he was passing. Joe. the penny newspaper whose circulation amounts to 140. lay ill for several months. But. then. 1854. said Kennedy; that is to say. and then came back to die of exhaustion at Karthoumnor Miani.