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Chapter I
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The End of a much-applauded Speech.—The Presentation of Dr.
Samuel Ferguson.—Excelsior.—Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.—A
Fatalist convinced.—A Dinner at the Travellers’ Club.—Several
Toasts for the Occasion.
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Chapter II
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The Article in the Daily Telegraph.—War between the Scientific
Journals.—Mr. Petermann backs his Friend Dr. Ferguson.—Reply of
the Savant Koner.—Bets made.—Sundry Propositions offered to the
Doctor.
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Chapter III
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The Doctor’s Friend.—The Origin of their Friendship.—Dick Kennedy
at London.—An unexpected but not very consoling Proposal.—A
Proverb by no means cheering.—A few Names from the African
Martyrology.—The Advantages of a Balloon.—Dr. Ferguson’s Secret.
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Chapter IV
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African Explorations.—Barth, Richardson, Overweg, Werne,
Brun-Rollet, Penney, Andrea, Debono, Miani, Guillaume Lejean,
Bruce, Krapf and Rebmann, Maizan, Roscher, Burton and Speke.
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Chapter V
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Kennedy’s Dreams.—Articles and Pronouns in the Plural.—Dick’s
Insinuations.—A Promenade over the Map of Africa.—What is
contained between two Points of the Compass.—Expeditions now on
foot.—Speke and Grant.—Krapf, De Decken, and De Heuglin.
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Chapter VI
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A Servant—match him!—He can see the Satellites of Jupiter.—Dick
and Joe hard at it.—Doubt and Faith.—The Weighing Ceremony.—Joe
and Wellington.—He gets a Half-crown.
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Chapter VII
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Geometrical Details.—Calculation of the Capacity of the
Balloon.—The Double Receptacle.—The Covering.—The Car.—The
Mysterious Apparatus.—The Provisions and Stores.—The Final
Summing up.
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Chapter VIII
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Joe’s Importance.—The Commander of the Resolute.—Kennedy’s
Arsenal.—Mutual Amenities.—The Farewell Dinner.—Departure on the
21st of February.—The Doctor’s Scientific
Sessions.—Duveyrier.—Livingstone.—Details of the Aërial
Voyage.—Kennedy silenced.
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Chapter IX
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They double the Cape.—The Forecastle.—A Course of Cosmography by
Professor Joe.—Concerning the Method of guiding Balloons.—How to
seek out Atmospheric Currents.—Eureka.
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Chapter X
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Former Experiments.—The Doctor’s Five Receptacles.—The Gas
Cylinder.—The Calorifere.—The System of Manœuvring.—Success
certain.
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Chapter XI
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The Arrival at Zanzibar.—The English Consul.—Ill-will of the
Inhabitants.—The Island of Koumbeni.—The Rain-Makers.—Inflation
of the Balloon.—Departure on the 18th of April.—The last
Good-by.—The Victoria.
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Chapter XII
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Crossing the Strait.—The Mrima.—Dick’s Remark and Joe’s
Proposition.—A Recipe for Coffee-making.—The Uzaramo.—The
Unfortunate Maizan.—Mount Dathumi.—The Doctor’s Cards.—Night
under a Nopal.
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Chapter XIII
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Change of Weather.—Kennedy has the Fever.—The Doctor’s
Medicine.—Travels on Land.—The Basin of Imengé.—Mount Rubeho.—Six
Thousand Feet Elevation.—A Halt in the Daytime.
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Chapter XIV
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The Forest of Gum-Trees.—The Blue Antelope.—The
Rallying-Signal.—An Unexpected Attack.—The Kanyemé.—A Night in
the Open Air.—The Mabunguru.—Jihoue-la-Mkoa.—A Supply of
Water.—Arrival at Kazeh.
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Chapter XV
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Kazeh.—The Noisy Market-place.—The Appearance of the Balloon.—The
Wangaga.—The Sons of the Moon.—The Doctor’s Walk.—The Population
of the Place.—The Royal Tembé.—The Sultan’s Wives.—A Royal
Drunken-Bout.—Joe an Object of Worship.—How they Dance in the
Moon.—A Reaction.—Two Moons in one Sky.—The Instability of Divine
Honors.
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Chapter XVI
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Symptoms of a Storm.—The Country of the Moon.—The Future of the
African Continent.—The Last Machine of all.—A View of the Country
at Sunset.—Flora and Fauna.—The Tempest.—The Zone of Fire.—The
Starry Heavens.
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Chapter XVII
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The Mountains of the Moon.—An Ocean of Verdure.—They cast
Anchor.—The Towing Elephant.—A Running Fire.—Death of the
Monster.—The Field Oven.—A Meal on the Grass.—A Night on the
Ground.
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Chapter XVIII
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The Karagwah.—Lake Ukéréoué.—A Night on an Island.—The
Equator.—Crossing the Lake.—The Cascades.—A View of the
Country.—The Sources of the Nile.—The Island of Benga.—The
Signature of Andrea Debono.—The Flag with the Arms of England.
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Chapter XIX
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The Nile.—The Trembling Mountain.—A Remembrance of the
Country.—The Narratives of the Arabs.—The Nyam-Nyams.—Joe’s
Shrewd Cogitations.—The Balloon runs the Gantlet.—Aërostatic
Ascensions.—Madame Blanchard.
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Chapter XX
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The Celestial Bottle.—The Fig-Palms.—The Mammoth Trees.—The Tree
of War. —The Winged Team.—Two Native Tribes in Battle.—A
Massacre.—An Intervention from above.
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Chapter XXI
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Strange Sounds.—A Night Attack.—Kennedy and Joe in the Tree.—Two
Shots.—”Help! help!”—Reply in French.—The Morning.—The
Missionary.—The Plan of Rescue.
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Chapter XXII
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The Jet of Light.—The Missionary.—The Rescue in a Ray of
Electricity.—A Lazarist Priest.—But little Hope.—The Doctor’s
Care.—A Life of Self-Denial.—Passing a Volcano.
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Chapter XXIII
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Joe in a Fit of Rage.—The Death of a Good Man.—The Night of
watching by the Body.—Barrenness and Drought.—The Burial.—The
Quartz Rocks.—Joe’s Hallucinations.—A Precious Ballast.—A Survey
of the Gold-bearing Mountains.—The Beginning of Joe’s Despair.
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Chapter XXIV
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The Wind dies away.—The Vicinity of the Desert.—The Mistake in
the Water-Supply.—The Nights of the Equator.—Dr. Ferguson’s
Anxieties.—The Situation flatly stated.—Energetic Replies of
Kennedy and Joe.—One Night more.
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Chapter XXV
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A Little Philosophy.—A Cloud on the Horizon.—In the Midst of a
Fog.—The Strange Balloon.—An Exact View of the Victoria.—The
Palm-Trees.—Traces of a Caravan.—The Well in the Midst of the
Desert.
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Chapter XXVI
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One Hundred and Thirteen Degrees.—The Doctor’s Reflections.—A
Desperate Search.—The Cylinder goes out.—One Hundred and
Twenty-two Degrees.—Contemplation of the Desert.—A Night
Walk.—Solitude.—Debility.—Joe’s Prospects.—He gives himself One
Day more.
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Chapter XXVII
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Terrific Heat.—Hallucinations.—The Last Drops of Water.—Nights of
Despair.—An Attempt at Suicide.—The Simoom.—The Oasis.—The Lion
and Lioness.
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Chapter XXVIII
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An Evening of Delight.—Joe’s Culinary Performance.—A Dissertation
on Raw Meat.—The Narrative of James Bruce.—Camping out.—Joe’s
Dreams.—The Barometer begins to fall.—The Barometer rises
again.—Preparations for Departure.—The Tempest.
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Chapter XXIX
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Signs of Vegetation.—The Fantastic Notion of a French Author.—A
Magnificent Country.—The Kingdom of Adamova.—The Explorations of
Speke and Burton connected with those of Dr. Barth.—The Atlantika
Mountains.—The River Benoué.—The City of Yola.—The Bagelé.—Mount
Mendif.
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Chapter XXX
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Mosfeia.—The Sheik.—Denham, Clapperton, and Oudney.—Vogel.—The
Capital of Loggoum.—Toole.—Becalmed above Kernak.—The Governor
and his Court. —The Attack.—The Incendiary Pigeons.
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Chapter XXXI
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Departure in the Night-time.—All Three.—Kennedy’s
Instincts.—Precautions.—The Course of the Shari River.—Lake
Tchad.—The Water of the Lake.—The Hippopotamus.—One Bullet thrown
away.
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Chapter XXXII
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The Capital of Bornou.—The Islands of the Biddiomahs.—The
Condors.—The Doctor’s Anxieties.—His Precautions.—An Attack in
Mid-air.—The Balloon Covering torn.—The Fall.—Sublime
Self-Sacrifice.—The Northern Coast of the Lake.
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Chapter XXXIII
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Conjectures.—Reëstablishment of the Victoria’s Equilibrium.—Dr.
Ferguson’s New Calculations.—Kennedy’s Hunt.—A Complete
Exploration of Lake Tchad.—Tangalia.—The Return.—Lari.
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Chapter XXXIV
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The Hurricane.—A Forced Departure.—Loss of an Anchor.—Melancholy
Reflections.—The Resolution adopted.—The Sand-Storm.—The Buried
Caravan.—A Contrary yet Favorable Wind.—The Return
southward.—Kennedy at his Post.
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Chapter XXXV
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What happened to Joe.—The Island of the Biddiomahs.—The Adoration
shown him.—The Island that sank.—The Shores of the Lake.—The Tree
of the Serpents.—The Foot-Tramp.—Terrible Suffering.—Mosquitoes
and Ants.—Hunger.—The Victoria seen.—She disappears.—The
Swamp.—One Last Despairing Cry.
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Chapter XXXVI
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A Throng of People on the Horizon.—A Troop of Arabs.—The
Pursuit.—It is He.—Fall from Horseback.—The Strangled Arab.—A
Ball from Kennedy.—Adroit Manœuvres.—Caught up flying.—Joe saved
at last.
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Chapter XXXVII
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The Western Route.—Joe wakes up.—His Obstinacy.—End of Joe’s
Narrative. —Tagelei.—Kennedy’s Anxieties.—The Route to the
North.—A Night near Aghades.
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Chapter XXVIII
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A Rapid Passage.—Prudent Resolves.—Caravans in Sight.—Incessant
Rains.—Goa.—The Niger.—Golberry, Geoffroy, and Gray.—Mungo
Park.—Laing.—René Caillié.—Clapperton.—John and Richard Lander.
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Chapter XXXIX
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The Country in the Elbow of the Niger.—A Fantastic View of the
Hombori Mountains.—Kabra.—Timbuctoo.—The Chart of Dr. Barth.—A
Decaying City.—Whither Heaven wills.
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Chapter XXXX
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Dr. Ferguson’s Anxieties.—Persistent Movement southward.—A Cloud
of Grasshoppers.—A View of Jenné.—A View of Sego.—Change of the
Wind.—Joe’s Regrets.
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Chapter XXXXI
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The Approaches to Senegal.—The Balloon sinks lower and
lower.—They keep throwing out, throwing out.—The Marabout
Al-Hadji.—Messrs. Pascal, Vincent, and Lambert.—A Rival of
Mohammed.—The Difficult Mountains.—Kennedy’s Weapons.—One of
Joe’s Manœuvres.—A Halt over a Forest.
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Chapter XXXXII
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A Struggle of Generosity.—The Last Sacrifice.—The Dilating
Apparatus.—Joe’s Adroitness.—Midnight.—The Doctor’s
Watch.—Kennedy’s Watch.—The Latter falls asleep at his Post.—The
Fire.—The Howlings of the Natives.—Out of Range.
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Chapter XXXXIII
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Conclusion.—The Certificate.—The French Settlements.—The Post of
Medina.—The Basilic.—Saint Louis.—The English Frigate.—The Return
to London.
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