Excerpts from the Book 'Five Weeks In A Balloon':

... His arms were long, and his feet were planted with that solidity which indicates a great pedestrian. A calm gravity seemed to surround the doctor's entire ...
... Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome as for risks and dangers, who can flatter himself that he is to escape them? Every thing ...
... don't want to spoil your illusions, my good Joe but this undertaking of his is nothing more nor less than the act of a madman. He won't ...
... the moon! exclaimed Joe, To the moon! pooh! that's too common. Every body might go to the moon, that way. Besides, there's no water there, and ...
... half our beasts of burden would have died with fatigue. We should be looking like ghosts ourselves, and despair would be seizing on our hearts. We ...
... a huge round rock nearly two miles in extent, like an immense tortoise. We are on the right track, said Dr. Ferguson. There's Jihoue-la-Mkoa, where ...
... is let loose! and, so saying, the doctor actively stirred up the flame of the cylinder, and turned it on the spirals of the serpentine siphon. The ...
... the mark of the eternal snows. Here we are at last, said the doctor, in an unexplored country! Captain Burton pushed very far to the westward, but ...
... indeed, the Nile! reiterated the doctor, with the tone of profound conviction. The origin of its name, like the origin of its waters, has fired the ...
... know which is right or which is wrong, that you would assume the part of the Almighty? Let us, rather, hurry away from this revolting spectacle. Could ...
... Therefore he determined to lose no opportunity of replenishing his supply. Upon getting back to the car, he found it burdened with the quartz-blocks ...
... with a nameless dread. He strove to retrace his steps, but in vain. He called aloud. Not even an echo replied, and his voice died out in the empty ...
... in any number of culinary combinations, using water all the time with the most profuse extravagance. What a strange succession of annoyances and enjoyments! ...
... the Arabs, perfumed the air up to the height where the Victoria was sailing the papaw-tree, with its palm-shaped leaves the sterculier, which produces ...
... travellers were then directly following the course of the Shari. The charming banks of this river were hidden beneath the foliage of trees of various ...
... compact masses and there, where so recently stretched a level plain as far as the eye could see, rose now a ridgy line of hillocks, still moving from ...
... the unfortunate man. He saw that he was lost. He thought his master gone beyond all prospect of return. He dared no longer think he would no longer ...
... but the last learned man still lingering in the place had hardly time to notice the new phenomenon, for our travellers, driven onward by the wind ...
... by the French on the bank of the river. This stronghold was defended by Paul Holl, who, for several months, without provisions or ammunition, held out ...
... reconnoitring the most favorable situation for a post at Gouina, when they became witnesses of Dr. Ferguson's arrival. The warm greetings and felicitations ...