“ no matter what experience one has with men, one does not travel always with impunity among cannibals and wild beasts. ”
Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863). copy citation
| Author | Jules Verne |
|---|---|
| Source | Five Weeks in a Balloon |
| Topic | travel experience |
| Date | 1863 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by William Lackland |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Five_Weeks_in_a_Balloon |
Context
“and Dick, supposing that his friend's instinct for travel and thirst for adventure had at length died out, was perfectly enchanted. They would have ended badly, some day or other, he thought to himself; no matter what experience one has with men, one does not travel always with impunity among cannibals and wild beasts. So, Kennedy besought the doctor to tie up his bark for life, having done enough for science, and too much for the gratitude of men.
The doctor contented himself with making no reply to this. He remained absorbed in his own reflections, giving himself up to secret calculations, passing his nights among heaps of figures, and making experiments with the strangest-looking machinery, inexplicable to everybody but himself.”
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