{"product_id":"2940013106345","title":"Five Weeks in a Balloon","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER FIRST.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe End of a much-applauded Speech.--The Presentation of Dr. Samuel Ferguson.\u003cbr\u003e--Excelsior.--Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.--A Fatalist convinced.\u003cbr\u003e--A Dinner at the Travellers' Club.--Several Toasts for the Occasion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER SECOND.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Article in the Daily Telegraph.--War between the Scientific Journals.--\u003cbr\u003eMr. Petermann backs his Friend Dr. Ferguson.--Reply of the Savant Koner.\u003cbr\u003e--Bets made.--Sundry Propositions offered to the Doctor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER THIRD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Doctor's Friend.--The Origin of their Friendship.--Dick Kennedy at London.\u003cbr\u003e--An unexpected but not very consoling Proposal.--A Proverb by no\u003cbr\u003emeans cheering.--A few Names from the African Martyrology.--The Advantages\u003cbr\u003eof a Balloon.--Dr. Ferguson's Secret\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER FOURTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfrican Explorations.--Barth, Richardson, Overweg, Werne, Brun-Rollet, Penney,\u003cbr\u003eAndrea, Debono, Miani, Guillaume Lejean, Brace, Krapf and Rebmann,\u003cbr\u003eMaizan, Roscher, Burton and Speke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER FIFTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKennedy's Dreams.--Articles and Pronouns in the Plural.--Dick's Insinuations.\u003cbr\u003e--A Promenade over the Map of Africa.--What is contained between two\u003cbr\u003ePoints of the Compass.--Expeditions now on foot.--Speke and Grant.--Krapf,\u003cbr\u003eDe Decken, and De Heuglin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER SIXTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Servant--match him!--He can see the Satellites of Jupiter.--Dick and Joe\u003cbr\u003ehard at it.--Doubt and Faith.--The Weighing Ceremony.--Joe and Wellington.\u003cbr\u003e--He gets a Half-crown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER SEVENTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeometrical Details.--Calculation of the Capacity of the Balloon.--The Double\u003cbr\u003eReceptacle.--The Covering.--The Car.--The Mysterious Apparatus.--The\u003cbr\u003eProvisions and Stores.--The Final Summing up\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER EIGHTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoe's Importance.--The Commander of the Resolute.--Kennedy's Arsenal.\u003cbr\u003e--Mutual Amenities.--The Farewell Dinner.--Departure on the 21st of February.--\u003cbr\u003eThe Doctor's Scientific Sessions.--Duveyrier.--Livingstone.--Details of the\u003cbr\u003eAerial Voyage.--Kennedy silenced\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER NINTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey double the Cape.--The Forecastle.--A Course of Cosmography by Professor\u003cbr\u003eJoe.--Concerning the Method of guiding Balloons.--How to seek out\u003cbr\u003eAtmospheric Currents.--Eureka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER TENTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormer Experiments.--The Doctor's Five Receptacles.--The Gas Cylinder.--\u003cbr\u003eThe Calorifere.--The System of Manoeuvring.--Success certain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER ELEVENTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Arrival at Zanzibar.--The English Consul.--Ill-will of the Inhabitants.--The\u003cbr\u003eIsland of Koumbeni.--The Rain-Makers.--Inflation of the Balloon.--Departure\u003cbr\u003eon the 18th of April.--The last Good-by.--The Victoria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER TWELFTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrossing the Strait.--The Mrima.--Dick's Remark and Joe's Proposition.--A\u003cbr\u003eRecipe for Coffee-making.--The Uzaramo.--The Unfortunate Maizan.--\u003cbr\u003eMount Duthumi.--The Doctor's Cards.--Night under a Nopal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER THIRTEENTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChange of Weather.--Kennedy has the Fever.--The Doctor's Medicine.--Travels\u003cbr\u003eon Land.--The Basin of Imenge.--Mount Rubeho.--Six Thousand Feet\u003cbr\u003eElevation.--A Halt in the Daytime\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER FOURTEENTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Forest of Gum-Trees.--The Blue Antelope.--The Rallying-Signal.--An\u003cbr\u003eUnexpected Attack.--The Kanyeme.--A Night in the Open Air.--The\u003cbr\u003eMabunguru.--Jihoue-la-Mkoa.--A Supply of Water.--Arrival at Kazeh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER FIFTEENTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKazeh.--The Noisy Market-place.--The Appearance of the Balloon.--The Wangaga.\u003cbr\u003e--The Sons of the Moon.--The Doctor's Walk.--The Population of the\u003cbr\u003ePlace.--The Royal Tembe.--The Sultan's Wives.--A Royal Drunken-Bout.--\u003cbr\u003eJoe an Object of Worship.--How they Dance in the Moon.--A Reaction.--\u003cbr\u003eTwo Moons in one Sky.--The Instability of Divine Honors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER SIXTEENTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSymptoms of a Storm.--The Country of the Moon.--The Future of the African\u003cbr\u003eContinent.--The Last Machine of all.--A View of the Country at Sunset.--\u003cbr\u003eFlora and Fauna.--The Tempest.--The Zone of Fire.--The Starry Heavens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER SEVENTEENTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mountains of the Moon.--An Ocean of Venture.--They cast Anchor.--The\u003cbr\u003eTowing Elephant.--A Running Fire.--Death of the Monster.--The Field\u003cbr\u003eOven.--A Meal on the Grass.--A Night on the Ground\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER EIGHTEENTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Karagwah.--Lake Ukereoue.--A Night on an Island.--The Equator.\u003cbr\u003e--Crossing the Lake.--The Cascades.--A View of the Country.--The Sources\u003cbr\u003eof the Nile.--The Island of Benga.--The Signature of Andrea Debono.--The\u003cbr\u003eFlag with the Arms of England\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER NINETEENTH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nile.--The Trembling Mountain.--A Remembrance of the Country.--The\u003cbr\u003eNarratives of 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