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

er.-Dick and Joe hard at it.-Doubt and Faith.-The Weigh

ligently executed. In fine, he was a Caleb without the growling, and a perfect pattern of constant good-humor. Had he been made on purpose for the place, it could not have been better done. Ferguson put himself entirely in his hands, so far as the ordinary details of existe

o should attempt to question the matter. Every thing he thought was exactly right; every thing he said, the perfection of wisdom; every thing he ordered to be done, quite feasible; all that he

acles no longer existed; from the moment when the doctor had made up his mind to start, he had arrived-along with his

casion arisen to name a professor of gymnastics for the monkeys in the Zoological Garden (who are smart enough, by-the

neys, and had a smattering of science appropriate to his condition and style of mind, but he was especially remarkable for a sort of mild philosophy,

of distinguishing the satellites of Jupiter with the naked eye, and of counting fourteen of the stars in the group of Pleiades, the remotest of them being only of the

be wondered at that incessant discussions sprang up between him

blind confidence. The doctor, however, vibrated between doubt and confid

Kennedy," J

, my

It seems that we are

are not quite so far off. But, never mind,

! with a man lik

; but this undertaking of his is nothing more nor

en't seen his balloon at Mitch

us good care to k

splendid thing it is! What a pretty shape!

think of going

g? Leave him to go off alone, after we've been all over the world together! Who would help him, when he was tired? Who would give

fine fel

you're com

st moment, to prevent Samuel even then from being guilty of such an act of foll

no hare-brained person; he takes a long time to think over what he means to do, and

'll see a

have you with us. For a hunter like you, sir, Africa's a gr

sorry for it, if I can get this

"you know that the wei

hing-what

you, and I, are all t

ke horse-

n't be expected to make yourself lean, if yo

not going to let myself be w

that the doctor's

ine will have t

ose that it coul

hat's al

y! My master will be se

han'

n't vex the doct

that I

when he says to your face, 'Dick!' (with all respect to you, sir,) 'Di

will

scussion had been taking place; and, as he came in, cast a

ome with Joe; I want to kno

ut

r hat on. Come!"

s. It was necessary, by the way, for the doctor to know the weight of his companions, so as to fix the equilibrium of his bal

doesn't bind m

pounds," said the doctor, n

too

Joe; "and then, you know, I

set them in his ready haste. He struck the attitude of Wellington where he is mad

twenty pounds,"

of satisfaction And why did he sm

and he put down one hundred and th

, "do not weigh much more

or your expedition, I could make myself thin

You may eat as much as you like, and her