Five Weeks in a Balloon / Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen

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African discovery, and in this way will often serve to refresh the memory of the reader. The mode of locomotion is, of course, purely imaginary, and the incidents and adventures fictitious. The latter are abundantly amusing, and, in view of the wonderful "travellers' tales" with which we have been entertaine

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guson.-Excelsior.-Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.-A Fatalist convi

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urnals.-Mr. Petermann backs his Friend Dr. Ferguson.-Reply of the

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expected but not very consoling Proposal.-A Proverb by no means cheering.-A few Na

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un-Rollet, Penney, Andrea, Debono, Miani, Guillaume Lejean,

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romenade over the Map of Africa.-What is contained between two Points of the Co

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ter.-Dick and Joe hard at it.-Doubt and Faith.-The Wei

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on.-The Double Receptacle.-The Covering.-The Car.-The Mysteri

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es.-The Farewell Dinner.-Departure on the 21st of February.-The Doctor's Scientifi

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graphy by Professor Joe.-Concerning the Method of guidi

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ptacles.-The Gas Cylinder.-The Calorifere.

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tants.-The Island of Koumbeni.-The Rain-Makers.-Inflation of the Ba

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ition.-A Recipe for Coffee-making.-The Uzaramo.-The Unfortunat

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Medicine.-Travels on Land.-The Basin of Imenge.-Mount R

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.-An Unexpected Attack.-The Kanyeme.-A Night in the Open Air.-T

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s Walk.-The Population of the Place.-The Royal Tembe.-The Sultan's Wives.-A Royal Drunken-Bout.-Joe an Objec

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an Continent.-The Last Machine of all.-A View of the Country at Sunse

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hor.-The Towing Elephant.-A Running Fire.-Death of the Monste

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Lake.-The Cascades.-A View of the Country.-The Sources of the Nile.-The Islan

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Narratives of the Arabs.-The Nyam-Nyams.-Joe's Shrewd Cogitations.-T

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es.-The Tree of War.-The Winged Team.-Two Native Tri

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the Tree.-Two Shots.-"Help! help!"-Reply in Frenc

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f Electricity.-A Lazarist Priest.-But little Hope.-The

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Barrenness and Drought.-The Burial.-The Quartz Rocks.-Joe's Hallucinations.-A Prec

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r Supply.-The Nights of the Equator.-Dr. Ferguson's Anxieties.-The Situ

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og.-The Strange Balloon.-An Exact View of the Victoria.-The Palm

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e Cylinder goes out.-One Hundred and Twenty-two Degrees.-Contemplation of the Dese

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f Water.-Nights of Despair.-An Attempt at Suici

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t.-The Narrative of James Bruce.-Camping out.-Joe's Dreams.-The Barometer beg

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Kingdom of Adamova.-The Explorations of Speke and Burton connected with those of Dr. Ba

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-The Capital of Loggoum.-Toole.-Becalmed above Kernak.-The

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-Precautions.-The Course of the Shari River.-Lake Tchad.-The

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ctor's Anxieties.-His Precautions.-An Attack in Mid-air.-The Balloon Cove

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m.-Dr. Ferguson's New Calculations.-Kennedy's Hunt.-A Com

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ctions.-The Resolution adopted.-The Sand-Storm.-The Buried Caravan.-A

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ank.-The Shores of the Lake.-The Tree of the Serpents.-The Foot-Tramp.-Terrible Suffering.-Mos

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.-It is He.-Fall from Horseback.-The Strangled Arab.-A Ball from

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End of Joe's Narrative.-Tagelei.-Kennedy's Anxie

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nt Rains.-Goa.-The Niger.-Golberry, Geoffroy, and Gray.-Mungo

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ew of the Hombori Mountains.-Kabra.-Timbuctoo.-The Ch

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thward.-A Cloud of Grasshoppers.-A View of Jenne.

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wing out.-The Marabout Al-Hadji.-Messrs. Pascal, Vincent, and Lambert.-A Rival of Mohammed

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s Adroitness.-Midnight.-The Doctor's Watch.-Kennedy's Watch.-The Latter fa

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.-The last of the Provisions.-The Leaps of the Balloon.-A Defence with Fire-arms.-The Wind

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ments.-The Post of Medina.-The Battle.-Saint L

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