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

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

ied, and it was not without good cause that he had resolved to ascend at the island of Zanzibar. This island, lying near to the eastern

ent by way of the great lakes to explore

n hoped to link together. The two principal ones were those of

for his countryman Overweg to join the expedition of the Englishma

north latitude; that is to say, that, in order to approach it, the exp

udney, made from 1822 to 1824. Richardson, Barth, and Overweg, jealously anxious to push their investigations f

heir caravan arrived, in October, at the vast oasis of Asben. Dr. Barth separated from his companions, made an excursion to the town of Aghades, and rejoined the expedition, which resumed its march on the 12th

ant. He therefore advanced toward the east, and reached the town of Zouricolo, in the Bornou country, which is the core of the great central empire of Africa. There he heard of the death of Richardson, who had succumbed to fatig

maoua, to the south of the lake, and from there he pushed on as far as the town of Yola, a little bel

he Mandara, Barghimi, and Klanem countries, and reached his extreme limit in the ea

nds of ill-treatment and wretchedness. But the presence of a Christian in the city could not long be tolerated, and the Foullans threatened to besiege it. The doctor, therefore, left it on the 17th of March, 1854, and fled to the frontier, where he remained for thirty-three days in

nturesome journ

t he had stopped at four degrees north lat

nants Burton and Speke acc

iver. According to the narrative of the German doctor, Ferdinand Werne, the expedition attempted in 1840, unde

y, who had just died, set out from Karthoum, and, under the name of Yacoub the merchant, trading in gums and ivory,

ack to die of exhaustion at Karthoum-nor Miani, the Venetian, who, turning the cataracts below Gondokoro, reached the second parallel-nor the

a retinue of twenty-one hired men and twenty soldiers, but he could not get past Gondokoro, and ran extreme risk of his life among the negro tribes, wh

ors of Nero reached the ninth degree of latitude, but in eighteen centuries only from five to

urces of the Nile by taking their point of

port of Abyssinia, traversed the Tigre, visited the ruins of Axum, saw the s

in company with the Rev. Dr. Rebmann, discovered two mountain-ranges three hundred miles from the coast. These w

, directly opposite to Zanzibar, and got as far as Deje-la-Mhora, whe

r, from Hamburg, set out with a caravan of Arab merchants, r

were sent by the London Geographical Society to explore the great African lakes,

dst of the country of the Moon, and there they collected some precious documents concerning the manners, government, religion, fauna, and flora of the region. They next made for the first of the great lakes, the one

or several months, during which time Speke made a push to the northward of more than three hundred miles, going as far as Lake Okerac

ute to Zanzibar, where they arrived in the month of March in the following year. These two daring explore

not gone beyond the second degree of south lat

n and Speke with those of Dr. Barth, since to do so was to undert