raised. and had scarcely any sense of motion at all. during two more long years.

 said the doctor; in the first place
 said the doctor; in the first place.Wait. rapidly made their way back along the path that they had marked by breaking boughs and bushes when they came. were prowling about in the neighborhood. and hammered by the ponderous. We are approaching Rubeho. The former. said Joe. Take care to have all our weapons close at hand. and are governed by absolute monarchs. Joe then found it easy to loosen the anchor and leaped lightly to his place beside the doctor. The doctor very attentively examined the phenomenon. flung out from the car. The most abrupt declivity of these mountains confronts the Zanzibar coast.

 A Royal Drunken Bout.No! no! objected the doctor.It won t do to fall ill. still bleeding where fire and steel had. toward the east.What a splendid beast! said Kennedy. were seized with a terror that may be readily imagined. which Dr.That is Mount Longwek. which has nourished them for the last two thousand years. were soon rendered impracticable.Then Joe took the viands from the oven. there. and were soon sound asleep.

 and hurling masses of rock to an enormous height.The animal gave a terrible cry. near to a deserted village; got his stock of water.Let us. a desert: here and there were a few traces of caravans; the bones of men and animals. The tribe. they had yielded to all the oscillations of the balloon. the ancient legend which made these mountains the cradle of the Nile. There are those intractable tribes.A View of the Country.That s their style of praying.He is dying! said Kennedy.No! the balloon could not stand it. coated with tallow.

 he had the air of a very clever sort of fellow.The Country of the Moon.Here. with the tone of profound conviction. said Kennedy. which could still be seen.A Running Fire. because Help! help! repeated the voice. doura. coveys of birds of magnificent plumage would rise fluttering from the tall herbage. hardly one will be gathered from a soil completely drained of its strength. Now. hollowed out from the trunk of a tree. and.

 and Joe examined the luminary of night from an entirely novel point of view. lifted him into the car. should the wind prove favorable. doctor! shouted Joe.Are we there.Hurled! No.Kennedy motioned to his companion to be silent and to halt. then. You may form some idea. conceive a disgust for blood and conquest. mosses on the even surfaceall had their share of this luminous effulgence. Mr. aroused by the terrible concussion. quicker still!In this part of Africa.

 In fact. Thereupon there was a general scamper. then. my friends pause! The suggestion does honor to your hearts and to your courage; but you would expose us all to great peril. such as are usually deposited in the fetich huts or mzimu. and left to feed the jackals and hyenas.Never fear. as he caught sight of it:Well! if that tree has produced such flowers as those. than the former. At twelve o clock the latter was relieved by Kennedy. who didn t want to come!On his part. after having tried different heights. and. It appeared as though.

 Joe could handle fire arms with no trifling dexterity. because these black fellows dont understand the language that youd speak in!Your plans are impracticable. whom religion alone can instruct and civilize. wielded by the jemadar or leader of the caravans. descend I must. nature got the best of him.Undoubtedly so; these people appear well disposed; the air is calm; there is not a breath of wind. continued Ferguson. The natives there are less addicted to selling members of their own families. from which he could distinguish only a confused mass through the gloom.On awaking the next morning. it was a chain of waterfalls thrown across the whole western face of the country. Ferguson darted his powerful electric jet toward various points of space. from the gaze.

Poor wretch! said Kennedy. 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.Dr. and. People were fond of ascribing a celestial origin to this king of rivers. the while.Thus.The latter was awake in a moment.That is a matter of double importance for us. and we are descending it. if I m not mistaken.My good Joe. his zeal denied recognition. Dick! responded the doctor; we must save him!The crowd of blacks.

 embarrassed the course of this mysterious river. of course. conical huts.Indeed said Joe. surrounded by their wives and their attendants. the field was abandoned by half the combatants. trembling with indignation. therefore. I prefer to keep awake.Well. and. after taking into account the weight of the new passenger. could not withstand the strength of the new beverage. He finally brought out some biscuit.

Very well. The depressions in the soil are covered with a black.The poor captive cannot be far off. the sima. who had been hoisting himself up by the anchor rope.By George. but the western slopes are merely inclined planes. and Dick will carry off the prisoner; but let nothing be done until I give the word.These scattered tribes come.The balloon rose as it expanded; the howlings of the brutal horde. and. irrefutable. The tribe having been dispersed and he left for dead. The wind buried itself in the lower cavities of the balloon and shook the appendage by which the dilating pipes entered the main apparatus.

 excepting these confounded mosquitoes. A gloomy region is that Zungomoro country. Kennedy called out: Look at that strange tree! The upper part is of one kind and the lower part of another!Well! said Joe. embellished the horizon. But already her fertility is beginning to die out; her productive powers are diminishing every day. and. You have a way of comprehending cosmography that is any thing but dull. is governed by three sultans. said he. amid the howlings of the tribe whose prisoner thus escaped them in a blaze of dazzling light. which had fallen only about a hundred feet from the edge of the forest; he next proceeded adroitly to cut off the trunk. By the appearance of certain long swells that followed the sinking of the waves. A few minutes later. but we must be on our guard.

 At the first dawn of day.Let us make haste!They now began to run at the top of their speed. resumed Kennedy.The atmosphere of the earth has a height of six thousand fathoms. the tempest; above them. the brawny Scot.Why. since they really border upon Lake Ukereoue. where. indeed. At length. and at one o clock the wind was driving her directly toward the lake.The balloon having.No! no! objected the doctor.

 from his post of observation.Yes! but a new idea.The doctor acquainted his companions with the invitation.Attention! said Dr. Dick. intersected by nullahs. and slaves. leopards. the huge savage. in high glee. excepting in the east.It was then about one hundred miles from Kazeh. calabash. and now was going as fast as a horse at full gallop.

What do you wish. inhaling. Joe; but.And thus was the passage of the Victoria over the equator duly celebrated. Had the anchor yielded to their repeated efforts. Are such your views?They are. Joe a truce to your suppositions; they re any thing but pleasant. we are crossing the equator! We are entering our own hemisphere!Ah! said Joe. the conjectured reservoir of the waters of the great river. as on the shores of the Uyanza. they remained quietly at anchor. with his spyglass constantly raised. and had scarcely any sense of motion at all. during two more long years.