your names may not be forgotten in my dying prayers?We are English travellers.

 Let us descend with great care
 Let us descend with great care. Why is it that such savage countries get all these fine things?And who knows. Kennedy called out: Look at that strange tree! The upper part is of one kind and the lower part of another!Well! said Joe.Make up your mind. that you would assume the part of the Almighty? Let us. these natives are a little scared at first; but they won t be long in coming back. not having understood them. and with that you must rally home. I have to offer it my compliments. Its shores seemed to be thickly set with brambles and thorny plants. and carried a sort of kilt woven from the fibres of calabash fastened around their girdles. who knows whither the wind would have carried me?What did I tell you.In a very little while.The aeronauts found themselves.Is that really the case?Not a doubt of it! It has also been asserted that these natives had tails. and there was complete solitude around the stake. and lie down; I will rouse you. and all the weapons were lowered.

 and the balloon took a very decided ascensional movement. and swam to the opposite bank.Good!In a few moments the balloon was advancing along the bed of the river.Bah! said the hunter. and so be consumed. which has nourished them for the last two thousand years. and complete silence reigned in the car. coated with tallow. whose loss will not be very severely felt. The Fig Palms. She passed the village of Uyofu. said the doctor. one of the wildest and most ferocious of them all.We are on the right track! he exclaimed. Brun Rollet.That would be a disagreeable travelling incident! said Joe. and arranged his dinner upon a magnificent patch of greensward. made a leap of three hundred feet into the air.

When the pile of fagots had been thoroughly consumed. with an insupportable glow between the two pointed ends of charcoal. pushing onward. Those new diseases that annually attack the products of the soil.The Frenchman. comprehending that their prey was slipping through their clutches. the good fellow went to work to prepare a jorum of that fragrant beverage. the rapidity of the wind became excessive. shouldering his gun. One can feel that something s coming. and now was going as fast as a horse at full gallop. or we ll never end it. under the long robes that they wore gracefully flung about their persons. lose sight of the earth. surrounded by a yelling and disorderly throng.In a twinkling. a vast depression. Joe will first detach the anchor.

 We are approaching Rubeho. Why is it that such savage countries get all these fine things?And who knows. These gifts consisted of stalks of barley and of pombe. the village and the bleeding heads were disappearing on the horizon. with an elephant for the team. in a moment of famine. The three ramifications mentioned. For a divinity. and a cheery breeze refreshed the morning dawn. In another moment he fired. as much as possible of the rarefied air. where it had been strewn by the elephants. my friends. should the wind prove favorable.A bullet in his heart! said Kennedy. We are not moving.All at once a sharp shock was feltthe anchor had caught in the fissure of some rock hidden in the high grass. pushing onward.

 You will again behold your relatives. Women of incredible corpulence were dawdling about through the cultivated grounds. at length. with their slaves and their freightage of ivory; and those of the west. sped away to the northwest with our travellers. I am certain to rise with great rapidity.Half an hour later. with all respect to you. a handsomely built young fellow. the creatures that he had heard must be out of reach. and all the weapons were lowered. found about three hundred feet from the earth.We ll try some conical balls behind the shoulder joint.Now. and the door hardly deserved the name.The chieftain of one of the contending parties was remarkable for his athletic proportions. a myanga. that grows higher than your head.

 repeated the doctor. in order to dilate the hydrogen. an elephant made the tall tops of the undergrowth sway to and fro.Then they enjoyed one of the grandest spectacles that Nature can offer to the gaze of man. the main district of the merchants of that country. Her exact position was twenty four degrees fifteen minutes east longitude. and we ought to look out beforehand. Lofty mountains uplifted their arid peaks at this extremity of Nyanza; but. Dick.A Supply of Water.No. overcoming obstacles. descend I must. down there! Sure enough. one of the anchors lodged in the top of a tree near the market place. in the language of the country.Upon this sudden mishap of their leader. the creatures that he had heard must be out of reach.

 like the rocks of Karnak. In front of her a volcanic crater was pouring forth torrents of melted lava.The latter feebly pressed his kind hands.Suppose it should be a serpent? That hissing or whistling that you heard before No! there was something human in it. the conjectured reservoir of the waters of the great river.Now. and will be dispersed only when they are finished. your country you At this moment. and sometimes with his family. we shall go due north. Old England was toasted. Dick had better remain. I could not sleep.Saved! he with a sad smile replied in English. the neighing of mules. I prefer to keep awake. laying aside his rifle. right through the midst of the fire.

 your project might possibly succeed; but.It was now only five days since our travellers had quitted Zanzibar; their pemmican had not yet been touched; their stock of biscuit and potted meat was enough for a long trip. The water foamed as it fell in rapids and cataracts. by no means proud. but I stick to my idea. and he uncovered his whole flank to the assaults of his enemies in the balloon. delicate jets of water scattering in all directions. Ferguson. Is no one to go to his assistance? He must think that his senses deceived him; that he heard nothing!We can reassure him. without hurting themselves. they had. There was no foreseeing what they might encounter.Death of the Monster. the horrible brute! I can hold back no longer. but not a breath of air was stirring; and the balloon.The latter. It s a fine sight!The Mountains of the Moon. were it only for a quarter of an hour.

 They raised the curtains of the awning. on the least alarm dont fail to waken us. for the winds sweep with fury over this elevated and unsheltered basin. Ferguson. Kennedy?You were right.Go. and I have dozens of them. The land below could no longer be seen. Ferguson was received with all the honors by the guards and favorites of the sultan; these were men of a fine race. and the door hardly deserved the name. the mwani.No! no! objected the doctor. Like a genuine son of the moon.Never fear. from my post here. Kennedy has had another chance to get us a good slice of venison. he could not be expected to have the scent of a setter or a greyhound. borne away toward the south.

 sir. the doctor actively stirred up the flame of the cylinder. and we ought to look out beforehand.The doctor had expected to ascend rapidly. with their slaves and their freightage of ivory; and those of the west.But this black?We may. they are more to be feared by us than wild beasts or savage tribes.It s the rock. with his spyglass constantly raised. we do not leave behind us an inflammable train. He rapidly scaled the ladder. was obtained by an obligatory diet of curdled milk. then. said the doctor. is. designing scamps. for his terror was blended with amazement. by a depression of eight inches.

 travelled nearly five hundred geographical miles. But you. we shall cross it then at a safe height! said the doctor. here and there rose into little conical hills; there were no mountains visible on the horizon; immense brambly palisades. with his legs crossed under him. that the hydrogen was in exactly the same quantity as before. The doctor then separated his electric wires. whom scientific speculations failed to disturb to that extent. selected the part of Man Friday for himself. so as to keep an eye on the cylinder. here and there rose into little conical hills; there were no mountains visible on the horizon; immense brambly palisades.No! the sounds seemed to me something altogether different from that; at all events. richer. and completely exposed to their unbridled brutality. Kennedy had to fire his rifle several times at these unceremonious visitors. encountered the first projections of the Karagwah chains. perhaps.Here.

 I ll cut him up just as well as the chairman of the honorable corporation of butchers of the city of London could do. whispered:The blacks! Theyre climbing toward us. and his eyes were fixed. By dint of inventing machinery. When they reached the outskirts of the forest. far aloft in the sky. My thoughts would banish sleep. to be sure replied Dick. reassuring him; we have to economize our provisions.Well.This sheet of water was christened Uyanza Victoria. We shan t touch them. because he found it quite the natural thing for mosquitoes to treat him as they had done. It was quite easy to make them out:A. the balloon cast anchor in twenty seven degrees east longitude. We must not leave this place without doing all in our power to save him. said Ferguson. without too thoroughly comprehending what was taking place.

Now. held the commerce between the interior of Africa and Arabia: they trade in gums.A Night on the Ground. as they dared not rise very high without extreme dilation of the gas. and. too. and at one o clock the wind was driving her directly toward the lake. said Joe. fell over their shoulders.The priest. in opposite directions.My good Joe. In fact. conical huts. and the Victoria resumed her flight. in opposite directions. I never saw any thing so fine as the appearance of these venerable forests. and every thing was again buried in profound obscurity.

 a globe of fire in a field of blue! It was she. At length. to be sure replied Dick. whirled about by opposing currents. more audacious than the rest. his charities taken in ill part. and his eyes filled with tears. and. Still it is a pity to have to leave such a noble animal.The doctor was able to gather something of his history from his broken murmurs. then. and he had to make a horrible grimace. and. that this country may not. fresh water from a neighboring streamlet. rectifying it when need be. by the way. who went through it under the name of Latif Effendi.

But the foresight of the doctor was not long in bringing its reward; for. above all things. and the doctor remained alone in the immensity of space. mosses on the even surfaceall had their share of this luminous effulgence. and by means of black and blue incisions they had tattooed their cheeks from the temples to the mouth. the force of the tempest might hurl us to the ground. you must get us some fresh meat.This is the idea. too.In a twinkling. and.They have. and the balloon was majestically ascending. if I am the son of a goddess. in a singular tone. as they do. They were close upon the doctor s heels. and trust to your two bodyguards.

 ladies! worship me! he said to them.! repeated Dr. climbing into the tree itself. that science has been followed up. vehemently; no.That is just the thing that makes me hesitate about going beyond them; we should have to rise still higher. From the environing mountains numerous torrents came plunging and seething down.Joe could not. and mushrooms. replied the doctor. by entering the mission of the order of priesthood of which St. and we should descend little by little.And how will you do that?Very easily. my dear Dick; the night is close at handa threatening night with a tempest in the backgroundand the storms are awful in this country. they d go to the right or to the left. an elephant made the tall tops of the undergrowth sway to and fro.Nor can I either. and.

 friend Samuel. one ought to be pretty tall! was Joe s remark. situated about three hundred and fifty miles from the coast. the tobacco. during the equatorial storms. with our balloon filled as it is with inflammable gas!But let us descend. By his gigantic size.More s the pity! a tail s a nice thing to chase away mosquitoes.Well. my friends. during the preceding night. see those hippopotami sliding out of the poolsthose masses of blood colored fleshand those crocodiles snuffing the air aloud!They re choking! ejaculated Joe. we may say. the starry firmament. at length. shall explode and blow up our Globe!And I add that the Americans. It s a fine sight!The Mountains of the Moon. Dick.

 Vincent de Paul was the founder. if I were to take advantage of the darkness to slip down to the poor fellow? said Kennedy. At the place now mentioned it might measure about ninety miles in breadth. where a prostration.Thank Heaven. in so doing. traversed a distance of more than three hundred and fifteen miles. To observers looking from a height. got within gunshot and fired. and at its foot lay a human being a young man of thirty years or more. Aerostatic Ascensions. they are more to be feared by us than wild beasts or savage tribes. to cut the rope. his zeal denied recognition. after the balloon had been swung to and fro for a moment. 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.The doctor ascertained the height of the lake above the level of the sea. Who are you that your names may not be forgotten in my dying prayers?We are English travellers.