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

omenade over the Map of Africa.-What is contained between two Points of the Comp

h certain modifications; in regard to which he observed the most absolute silence. For a long time past he had been applying himself t

a word to anybody. On this subject, he regaled him with the most persuasive arguments, which, however, did NOT persuade Samuel Ferguson, and wasted his

ithout a sombre terror: when asleep, he felt oscillations that made his head re

s to show Ferguson a severe contusion that he had received on the cranium. "And yet," he would add, with wa

meaning as it was, did not see

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uppose that we

ll NOT

and Kennedy had n

y-of his-Kennedy's-and to look upon him as irrevocably destined to become his aerial companion. Not even

hall be ready on the--; 'we' sh

s the singular po

'our' car; 'ou

me in the

; 'our' discoveries

friend. Let us also disclose the fact that, without knowing exactly why himself, he had sent

the utility of the expedition-its opportuneness, etc. This discovery of the sources of the Nile, was it likely to be of any use?-Would one have really labored for the welfare of humanity?-When, after all, the African tribes should have been civilized, would they be any happier?-Were folks certain that civilization

pposite to what was desired or intended,

ther? Must I then be untrue to my past history; recoil before obstacles that are not serious; requite wi

y, who made great use

mpete with the success of the expeditions now on foot? Don't you kn

ti

k, and cast your e

over it, with

the course

," replied the Scot

at Gon

m th

himself how easy such

and let it rest upon that place beyond which

ve do

for the island of Zanzibar,

ave

same parallel and

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longitude to the opening of Lake Oukereoue, a

ore, and I should have

ight to suppose, according to the information g

t the lea

h is in two degrees and thirty minutes, must exte

all

flows a stream which must necessarily joi

indeed,

your dividers rest upon that

e, friend

es can you count bet

cely

now what that

least in

ne hundred and twenty miles

nothing,

what is taking pl

my honor,

uipped expedition; their mission is to ascend the lake and return to Gondokoro; they have received a subsidy of more than five thousand pounds, and the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope has placed Hottentot soldiers at their disposal; they set out from Zanzibar at the close of October, 1860. In the mean while John Pethe

nned," sa

abors. And that is not all, since, while some are thus advancing with sure steps to the

?" said

, in the west, by way of the Djob, a river lying under the equator. Baron de Decken has already set out from

this time

t or on

far as I am concerne

were received in Alexandria, in 1860, said that he was killed at the order of the King of Wadai; but other letters, addressed by Dr. Hartmann to the traveller's father, relate that, according to the recital of a felatah of Bornou, Vogel was merely held as a prisoner at Wara. All hope is not then lost. Hence, a committee has been organized under the presidency of the Regent of Saxe-Cogurg-Gotha; my friend Petermann is its secretary; a national subscripti

re of Dr. Ferguson,

owing to some disagr

one assigned to h

tter having been

tzi

very thing is getting on so well, wha

t contented himself with a sig