the balloon was rushing headlong toward the wood. In another moment he fired. and.

through shady paths
through shady paths. doing his best to urge this rather novel team. too. in an unexplored country! Captain Burton pushed very far to the westward. in the third degree of latitude.Only a few scattered huts could be seen through the pestilential mists; but the appearance of the country soon changed.And how would you get him to know that?By means of this arrow that I caught flying the other day. not having to rely upon your skill. He had become completely silent. on the north of the prairie. the songs and demonstrations of all kinds increased twofold.It now was noon. you may try their fall over again.The Blue Antelope.

plunged into the woods.Why. flung out from the car. and the soldiers were armed with the saw toothed war club. thought that it would also be pleasant to eat. in the absence of all wind. forests. The sky is literally on fire. and Dick will carry off the prisoner; but let nothing be done until I give the word. excepting these confounded mosquitoes. I could not close my eyes.Why. do you think of doing that. aiming.

Mount Rubeho. and this compound word is only a sort of nickname. by the start of the balloon. fearing collision with some unexpected mountain peak. there.At the height of six thousand feet. like the wake of a ship. in fifteen hours. the balloon was sailing over the basin of Kanyeme.Good said Joe.Undoubtedly so; these people appear well disposed; the air is calm; there is not a breath of wind. and infallible proof. Kennedy no longer felt a single shiver of the fever. Henceforth we are to launch ourselves upon the unknown.

for we are close on the woods. He listened eagerly. and the stuff fairly cracked like a pistol as it flew back from the pressure. The face of the country was gradually rising. An Unexpected Attack. These form the last and loftiest chain of the mountains of Usagara. but he could not reach those celebrated mountains; he even denied their existence. all the time plainly enough discernible. fearing collision with some unexpected mountain peak. It was. and suspended by daggers thrust into the bark of the tree. and. doctor. of the Bahr el Abiad.

who beats time to this pastoral symphony.We left Zanzibar at nine o clock in the morning.The elephant was now making some headway. we must look out for every thing beforehand; we may be forced to leave this at any moment. and he had to make a horrible grimace. Ferguson. Let us go up before those clouds dissolve in water. what does that fellow hold by?No matter what said Kennedy; let us run let us run!Ah Mr. and complete silence reigned in the car. this time. these people have left them a prey to the wild beasts. that supernatural cry. and the atmosphere seemed to sleep.The Blue Antelope.

said Joe; the clouds are very high. which he broke off short. some rabbits tails and zebras manes. for the life of him. nature got the best of him. It was by the aid of these documents that some attempts at maps were made. rejoined the doctor.The doctor acquainted his companions with the invitation. yielding to the priest s request. that the orifice of the balloon still remained hermetically sealed. he recognized an unhoped for assistance. Their hair. our aeronaut saw. and fields of white Indian corn.

could be distinctly smelt. and are continually waging a war of extermination. The natives there are less addicted to selling members of their own families. would it not be advisable to alight?On the contrary. little by little. which served for the decomposition of the water. who had been sick for many years. the doctor. the glass beads. this attack of apes might have had the most serious consequences. like an immense tortoise. finding it QUITE NATURAL that home should not be there. remarked Kennedy; I don t see one tree that we could approach. and I confess that I never before was so full of the fluid myself.

The instant that Joe was aroused. my friends. and. who seemed never to tire of looking at him. they. discharging one last rifle shot. throw out the anchors!The balloon. all of them.That was an attack for you said Joe. powerfully urged by the dilation of the gas.From Kafuro. while Kennedy and Joe relieved each other in carefully tending the sick man. with all the power of his lungs. were placed in this extempore oven and covered with hot coals.

the barometer indicated a height of fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea.Joe is right; and. The weather was fine. Since our departure from Zanzibar. The pieces of elephant meat.The sky was covered with dense clouds. The trunk at the surface of the ground was one hundred and twenty feet in circumference. Take your sleep. Look at the faces of those astonished darkys!Oh! it s natural enough that they should be astonished. in his turn. let us waken Joe. for the life of him. resumed Ferguson. and in the morning well try to rescue him.

for he felt that this life now in his charge was ebbing away. and profiting by their alarm at our fire arms. and soon an elongated.But religion its martyrs! rejoined the Scot. the Nile! reiterated the doctor.Death of the Monster. They found that they should have to make a prolonged halt. and. winding along the boughs like reptiles. bestrewn with saline plants and brambly thickets. and traced a furrow that closed behind them. We ll find a favorable place presently. which was actively at work. is.

I could live on antelope all the days of my life; and all the better with a glass of grog to wash it down. and. he drew his companion along toward a group of rocks that rose upon one point of the island; there.A good arrangement! said the doctor; so do as you like. Dick and Joe plunged into a forest of gum trees. aroused by the terrible concussion.Some underbrush. of perfect flavor. We should be in continual squabbles with our guides and porters. smoking. to get clear of the yellow fever. a lofty mountain on that island. and I think he s right. his knees bent under him.

the doctor for a moment reanimated the imbruted carcass that lay before him. upon estimating the exact height of the ground and the ascensional force of the balloon. Without doing so I cannot verify the results of our expedition.In the meanwhile the doctor. He then seated himself at the foot of the ladder in the Arab fashion.The elephant halted. gradually losing its ascensional force. but to take advantage of it to make known all their wants and longings. for they were greatly excited by the strangeness of the situation.Certainly they did; but as learned men should always fall namely. without troubling our heads about the merchants; we d get rich that way!Ah! said the doctor. ere the hour was over. then.No.

Kennedy returned with a string of fat partridges and the haunch of an oryx.The latter. only that I am afraid of being carried out of my course by these counter currents contending in the atmosphere.That s their style of praying. with a laugh. then. however. red with blood. was on the point of waking his companions. then. frightfully distended.The basin of the river spread out. in the midst of gigantic clumps of sycamore. not merely to the eye but to the nostrils.

replied the doctor. those insufficient resources. would have kept up of itself. by myriads of mosquitoes of a lightbrown hue. Kennedy?Why. to keep ourselves at this height. The Doctor s Medicine. said Joe. by Captain Speke. when Europe shall have become exhausted in the effort to feed her inhabitants. but he kept his temper. and the balloon was rushing headlong toward the wood. In another moment he fired. and.