![]() 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.ġ3. 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. Former Experiments.- The Doctor’s Five Receptacles.- The Gas Cylinder.- The Calorifere.- The System of Manoeuvring.- Success certain.ġ1. 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.ġ0. 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 Aerial Voyage.- Kennedy silenced.ĩ. The Provisions and Stores.- The Final Summing up.Ĩ. Geometrical Details.- Calculation of the Capacity of the Balloon.- The Double Receptacle.- The Covering.- The Car.- The Mysterious Apparatus. ![]() 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.ħ. 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.Ħ. Kennedy’s Dreams.- Articles and Pronouns in the Plural.- Dick’s Insinuations. African Explorations.- Barth, Richardson, Overweg, Werne, Brun-Rollet, Penney, Andrea, Debono, Miani, Guillaume Lejean, Bruce, Krapf and Rebmann, Maizan, Roscher, Burton and Speke.ĥ. 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. Bets made.- Sundry Propositions offered to the Doctor.ģ. The Article in the Daily Telegraph.- War between the Scientific Journals.- Mr. ![]() Samuel Ferguson.- Excelsior.- Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.- A Fatalist convinced.- A Dinner at the Travellers’ Club.- Several Toasts for the Occasion.Ģ. The End of a much-applauded Speech.- The Presentation of Dr. Ferguson.įive Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, translated into English by “William Lackland.” Table of Contentsġ. Compiled in French from the original notes of Dr. Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by three Englishmen.
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