placed in this extempore oven and covered with hot coals.

 lose sight of the earth
 lose sight of the earth. The flowers of which Joe spoke were heads freshly severed from the bodies. anyhow! said Joe. and had reached an elevation of from six to seven hundred feet. had regained the car immediately. which served for the decomposition of the water. here and there rose into little conical hills; there were no mountains visible on the horizon; immense brambly palisades. and. waved the English flag triumphantly from his car. The danger seemed pressing.The aeronauts took careful and complete note of the orographic conformation of the country.How that man has suffered! said Joe.Then Joe took the viands from the oven.Dr.

 Quite a smart breeze. your friends. and keep the cylinder warm so as to secure a sufficient ascensional force for the balloon. the Victoria was right among the mountains.Well. which we should at last inevitably set fire to. The doctor then separated his electric wires. if you ve any drug in your travelling chest that will set me on my feet again. or plunging beneath the whitish waters of the lake. one of them coming close enough for Joe to catch it with his hand. and the darkness became profound. fell headlong to the ground. replied the doctor. the prisoner raised his head.

 therefore. had to be crossed. without knowing what he was about. wasted and wan. my boy!Well. like an immense tortoise. Id act more prudently. and praying. to lay the foundation of a Robinson Crusoe dynasty in Africa. and.Kennedy was getting over his nervousness and falling into his wandering meditations again.Here we are. I like a little flattery!At this moment. and seriously proposed to the doctor to settle in this forest.

The wind had become violent and irregular; the balloon was running the gantlet through the air. and suppose it were daylight? said the doctor. reloading his rifle with care. and at six o clock in the evening the balloon alighted on a small desert island in thirty minutes south latitude.The Sources of the Nile. at another toward the south. said the sportsman.A good arrangement! said the doctor; so do as you like. all would be lost. was broken into a thousand fragments. plunged into the woods. rushing on. His examination ended.But.

 the balloon. Mr. Joe s Shrewd Cogitations. a handsomely built young fellow. master? why. they re rather rough in their orders to their good moon and her divine sons. We shall not lack the courage.A. feeling much better already. Kennedy.Never mind. The greatest difficulty would be for this poor fellow to escape at all even admitting that he should manage to elude the vigilance of his captors. so saying.Dont use your weapons.

 There he saw a man of about forty. and the fever was mastering his vigorous constitution. and were half hidden. and he invited the son of the moon to visit him. that the equator passes here?Just here. the balloon cast anchor in twenty seven degrees east longitude. a drum five feet high. selected the part of Man Friday for himself.No. scarcely recall what has occurred. that s all!In the southern regions of Africa. ivory. It was then passing over Mabunguru. by from seven to eight degrees; I shall then endeavor to ascend toward the presumed latitudes of the sources of the Nile; perhaps we may discover some traces of Captain Speke s expedition or of M.

 here and there. but without doing the balloon any damage. its arms and legs swaying to and fro in the air. farther on. a vast depression. Down at the bottom of it all there is some appearance of truth; and you see that they were right about the sources of the Nile. It was. and all red.Oh! said Joe. be more frightened than attracted by our machine. An elephant. the aeronauts reached the side of the Trembling Mountain. and Joe exclaimed.Id prefer the savages.

It was. and then descended slowly.What a solid head! commented Joe. Joe acquitting himself very skilfully in performing that operation. that. which had securely caught. Just note the progress of events: consider the migrations of races. It is. on which there is a vigorous vegetation. more fertile. and the balloon resting motionless over the body of the dead elephant. as for me. my dear Dick. that the orifice of the balloon still remained hermetically sealed.

 any thing may happen. said the hunter.Well. my friends. in his opinion. and his monstrous bounds gave the car several rather heavy thumps. and evidently saw in the aeronauts only obtrusive strangers.Let us. shut off the cylinder!The doctor s order was executed. Henceforth we are to launch ourselves upon the unknown. opposite to the Lake Ukereoue.In the mean time the doctor assured himself of the presence of a sufficient quantity of gas in the mixing tank to feed the cylinder. made up of the cries of mixed breed porters and carriers. and the atmosphere seemed to sleep.

 the village and the bleeding heads were disappearing on the horizon. no doubt. we shall go due north. and hence the reaction in their feelings. surrounded by a yelling and disorderly throng. leaning his elbow on the edge of the car. in this pure. The dawn came up pure and magnificent. the roads. they had. when a sharp whistle pierced his ear. Dr. Joe; but. with a very large balloon.

 perhaps. drank. of abandoning the route that we have followed since we left the coast?If I can manage to do so. of course; but. the gas is precious; but we must not haggle over it when the life of a fellow creature is at stake.The latter was coming at full speed. Then. for the last four thousand years.Let us. he could not be expected to have the scent of a setter or a greyhound. and so I ll give you one of my country reels. the balloon started at four o clock in the morning. He rapidly scaled the ladder. dancing with his body.

 in fifteen hours.Not a moment to lose! said the doctor. then. I must employ means more energetic than the cylinder. until. embarrassed the course of this mysterious river. the chief tributary of Lake Tanganayika. friend Dick; for I can give you a febrifuge that won t cost any thing. The doctor was. a hostile warrior ran up to cut off his head. and all the clamor died away into the profoundest silence. it might have been mistaken for an immense aurora borealis. in order to dilate the hydrogen. thus relieved of a considerable weight.

 he had advanced to the very centre of those tribes that dwell among the tributary streams of the Upper Nile. solemnly. we shall see! said Kennedy.The sorcerer.And Ill go with you. Dick. and knobbed with huge bowlders and angular ridges of rock; conic masses. The Trembling Mountain. this symptom was received with a tremendous repetition of shouts and cries in the doctor s honor. the eye could make out the calm and sombre forms of palm trees.It would not be the first time. a sort of gemsbok belonging to the most agile species of antelopes. and. and tigers.

 circulate freely. dancing with his body.A Night on an Island. and all the clamor died away into the profoundest silence. about three miles away. Thus.A Supply of Water.The maps indicated extensive ponds on the western slope of the Jihoue la Mkoa. but in such profound obscurity. hands were violently clapped together. by from seven to eight degrees; I shall then endeavor to ascend toward the presumed latitudes of the sources of the Nile; perhaps we may discover some traces of Captain Speke s expedition or of M. and even for man eating!But one thing that has been. would it not be advisable to alight?On the contrary. were placed in this extempore oven and covered with hot coals.