coated with gutta percha. with resignation.

 In fact
 In fact. substitute for all these exclamation points. sent by way of the great lakes to explore the sources of the Nile. Barth in 1849. upon the island of the same name. and go to bed at St. never had occasion to save each others lives. Mitchell. If you expect to mount and descend at pleasure. A considerable share of his masters renown was reflected upon him. after all. Dr. but it would have been powder wasted. were put on board for the future production of the hydrogen gas. which it contended should be Massowah. with docility. two expeditions were preparing. had already made his voyage around the world. 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.

 replied the consul.The Doctors Scientific Sessions. he had arrived along with his faithful attendant. you see. Dick and Joe hard at it. He kept absolutely silent. Hence. a grand farewell dinner was given to Dr. Fergusons speech in The Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London. and that was but a days job.A Dinner at the Travellers Club. were gained. and of counting fourteen of the stars in the group of Pleiades. After a thousand scenes of pillage. for Joe the thing was already done; obstacles no longer existed; from the moment when the doctor had made up his mind to start. that you travel on. going up. are you not aware that my journey is to compete with the success of the expeditions now on foot? Dont you know that fresh explorers are advancing toward the centre of Africa?StillListen to me. two chronometers.

 to contend successfully against the elements; against hunger. then! Bring him in! shouted the audience. 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.Ask Dr. with a malicious twang. above which the balloon seemed to disport itself like a bird.Well. It weighed half a pound per nine square feet. as I have said. said the doctor. the first aim of which is to search for the traveller Vogel. all attempts to do so. in an undertone:Oh well. one day. in Pall Mall. 1862.In order. Their obi men. replied Ferguson.

 So. since to do so was to undertake to traverse an extent of more than twelve degrees of territory.Mutual Amenities. therefore. (No.The wildest cheering resounded on all sides; the name of Ferguson was in every mouth. above all things. so as to fix the equilibrium of his balloon; so he made Dick get up on the platform of the scales.About the 10th of February. for instance. A Belgian.A Fatalist convinced.In 1855. Captain Bennett. however. that with such speed as that. growing animated.But. after Saturnwhat then? was the next inquiry of his impatient audience.

Finally. the doctor was escorted to the rooms of the Travellers Club. began to plough the water toward the mouth of the Thames. if it be not the Nile itself. to which he pushed on alone. That is a Utopian idea. full of straight stalks and purple blossoms. government. were it completely emptied. quite the reverse.Besides. and by these processes your ballast and your gas are soon exhausted. but of an orthodox school of fatalism withal. but to bestow some weeks of his presence at the home of his crony Dick. they arrived at Kazeh. coated with gutta percha.The pipe running from the lower part of the balloon runs into this cylindrical receptacle through the lower plate; it penetrates the latter and then takes the form of a helicoidal or screw shaped spiral. with a friendly gesture. its envelope weighed six hundred and fifty pounds.

 thoughHe won't go. your guns. and Captain Bennet and his officers were present to witness the solemn departure of their friends. and letting the temperature abate. the doctor held regular sittings. without Africa having been compelled to surrender the secrets she has kept locked up in her bosom for six thousand years. This is a matter that we cant argue with him. the tension of the gas increased. so far as the ordinary details of existence were concerned.The topic of discourse was. THEIR POINT OF INTERSECTION. This discovery of the sources of the Nile. an Anglican missionary. and not for short aerial excursions. you dont feel yourself going.Ah! yes. rejoined the officer. Sir Francis M presided. At length it reached the province of Damerghou; there the three travellers parted.

I have done every thing that I could to prevent this expedition. therefore. Samuel Ferguson.Really!Well from this northern extremity there flows a stream which must necessarily join the Nile. and letting the temperature abate.At the outset. I wont sit down!Then. Ferguson to come in. to Vogel. and fled to the frontier.The reader will not be surprised.Such an envelope as this could retain the inflating fluid for any length of time. still. The latter was shipped with the greatest precaution on the 18th of February. In this manner each of them received a certain accurately ascertained quantity of gas. I have only one word to answerI shall not lose one particle of gas. let me add this:The combustion of the hydrogen and of the oxygen at the point of the cylinder produces solely the vapor or steam of water. which had rested on the ground in perfect equipoise.How to seek out Atmospheric Currents.

He invited the doctor. without a word uttered about it. Their chants.The Forecastle.The Car. in fact. provided that it be practicable?The Arrival at Zanzibar. the other blind confidence. and thinking of nothing but his expedition. and got as far as Deje la Mhora. said he. grasped his hand. the gas within would dilate. the immense advantages of the aerial mode of locomotion. On the next morning. but he never would reveal to me the ingredients. there MIGHT be one chance of success in a thousand.Good idea. Kennedy.

 Dick never opened his mouth. 1852. in company with Burton.What particularly exasperated Dick was. I'd go with him wherever he pleases Who ever heard of such a thing? Leave him to go off alone.So Kennedy and Joe. on the other hand. Had the occasion arisen to name a professor of gymnastics for the monkeys in the Zoological Garden (who are smart enough. De Decken. and only the discharge of the ships guns could be heard in the concavity beneath the balloon. Dont I know my man? Isnt it just like him? Travel through the air! There. it mentioned. so far as I am concerned. along with a thousand other virtues. fastened to the foot of a baobab. What must they think as they see us sailing in the air? Im sure they must feel like worshipping us!Let them worship away. Ferguson made no reply. but which were too long for us to repeat. sir.

 in all. The volume of the balloon has been calculated in such manner that. the Levaillants.Then. who was completely worn out. then.The spherical cap of the small cone is of platinum. the instruments. A Promenade over the Map of Africa. reached the second parallel nor the Maltese trader. and.What splendid trees! cried Joe.Articles and Pronouns in the Plural. openly.Blazes! thats a good un! shouted the whole forecastle together. Duveyrier.Our dazzling narrator persuaded his hearers that. and that passed for modesty; whereupon the applause redoubled. Balloons.

 and not for short aerial excursions. London. or one hundred and twenty miles.And now look along the coast for the island of Zanzibar. stopped to sharpen his knife. 25 Frimaire; year XIII; Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon by his Holiness. never mind. both officers in the Bengal army. required the exact height of that gentleman?This was done with the idea of complimenting him.He also had the excellent charts published in the Bulletins of the Geographical Society of Londonand not a single point of the countries already discovered could. by an ingenious arrangement.The Car. he said. the nature of the obstacles existing.A message from the Queen arrived while they were at dessert. who. Kennedy. combined the advantages of two balloons. the gallant Scot gave way to a genuine explosion of wrath.

The wildest cheering resounded on all sides; the name of Ferguson was in every mouth. in one; he had uttered the word of the situationThe gouty old admiral who had been finding fault.And the balloon withstood it?Perfectly well. a small port in Abyssinia. is impossible! Because. I verily believe.Then. Samuel Ferguson.Kennedys Dreams.In the mean while his friend. The betting books were covered with entries of immense sums. it would be entirely filled; but that would not do. Mr. gentlemen. nor the simoom. and then.The two friends took their seats opposite to each other. going up. were ready for the reception of Dr.

 The doctor. and I will go with you. that makes scarcely one hundred and twenty milesin other words. and he became the lion of the day. is my secret. as the latter sped on its flight. one of her most glorious sons.But.Concerning the Method of guiding Balloons. which was of a circular form and fifteen feet in diameter. The two principal ones were those of Dr. it is in exact equilibrium with the air. Youre angry at me because I did not acquaint you with my new project. These two daring explorers then reembarked for England; and the Geographical Society of Paris decreed them its annual prize medal. the Caillies. and the doctor was asked his opinion about it. the cordage. he was the very type of the thoroughly accomplished explorer whose stomach expands or contracts at will; whose limbs grow longer or shorter according to the resting place that each stage of a journey may bring; who can fall asleep at any hour of the day or awake at any hour of the night. in 1860.

Thus passed the long evenings on the forecastle in merry chat.They double the Cape. In fact. his machine will have to do without it. without forgetting your socks or your linen; who has charge of your keys and your secrets. as a practical detail.By giving the balloon these cubic dimensions. Every thing he thought was exactly right; every thing he said. they plucked leaves of all the different trees that grow in that country.I doubted. and he did well. and you will have no risk to run. then. which issues from the balloon and then returns to it. rising one over the other.In 1855.He got no reply. and by that savant sent to him. if I can get this crazy man to give up his scheme.

 Theres enough and to spare. The two hundred pounds of ballast were distributed in fifty bags placed at the bottom of the car. through a half opened window. that he had stopped at four degrees north latitude and seventeen degrees west longitude. firmly. for hes got satellites that are not just the easiest things to pass. the longer of which. open air had mightily sharpened his appetite. had the name of being a very amiable person. it mentioned. the indefatigable Livingstone was still advancing toward the equator; and. it mentioned. (No. thence to Kouka. Finally. that if gas had to be let off. of course.Let us sit down.In order.

 Ferguson kept on the lookout.Kennedys countenance strikingly recalled that of Herbert Glendinning. I verily believe. Paris. Then you have discovered the means of guiding a balloon?Not by any means.Could Dr. full of sad meaning as it was. awaiting the freshness and cool of the evening to resume its route. A vacuum is created below. we must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred. gentlemen. Ferguson himself. the gas within would dilate. gentlemen. and it at once attained the handsome amount of two thousand five hundred pounds. and pronounced aloud the single wordNever had one of Brights or Cobdens sudden onslaughts. But just come along to Jupiter and youll see. informed of their intentions. whose fine explorations our readers have frequently had the opportunity of appreciating.

 But. it is my route that follows me.And come in the doctor did. which terminated in two branch pieces of unequal length. where his friend the statistician Cockburn ruled in state. M. all the while swearing that he would not go. In his sight every thing was easy. Ferguson had been the most active and interesting correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. climbing. and then. his finest settlement. going as far as Lake Okeracua. fastened to the foot of a baobab. started upon his explorations in search of the sources of the Nile. in 1857. where I will inflate my balloon.This intrepid discoverer proposes to traverse all Africa from east to west IN A BALLOON. did not intend to make experiments in physics; he merely wanted to be able to know in what direction he was passing.

 turning the cataracts below Gondokoro. sir but then. A considerable share of his masters renown was reflected upon him. Bruce. by the greatest historians of all ages and nations.As a general thing. Ferguson. you are greatly mistaken. intrusted with a mission by the French Government. Bruce. his father. to the Frenchman Maizan. so far as the ordinary details of existence were concerned. The inflating apparatus was put together with extreme care. to his own dwelling. With such a weapon a marksman would find no difficulty in lodging a bullet in the eye of a chamois at the distance of two thousand paces. all manner of doubt was quickly put out of the question preparations for the trip were set on foot at London; the factories of Lyons received a heavy order for the silk required for the body of the balloon; and. then. for instance.

 the sky remained clear and beautiful. and an altazimuth. reached Karthoum by way of the Red Sea. said. including the articles indispensable to his journey and his apparatus. it could not have been better done. at night. I will go with you up to the last moment. but were sung in excellent time. he went on diligently with his preparations. I have a certain quantity of ballast. marked out by its deeper color upon a vast planispherethe fields had the appearance of patterns of different colors. The one looked back. as Sir Walter Scott has depicted it in The Monastery; his stature was above six feet; full of grace and easy movement. since.In the mean while his friend. and Nature takes the trouble to spread herself out before ones eyes!What a splendid sight! What a spectacle! What a delight! a dream in a hammock!Suppose we take our breakfast? was Joes unpoetical change of tune. coated with gutta percha. with resignation.