Jules Verne

Name: Five Weeks in a Balloon — Chapter Twenty-Second.
Author: Jules Verne

Five Weeks in a Balloon — Chapter Twenty-Second… (1873)

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“Five Weeks in a Balloon — Chapter Twenty-Second.”, published in 1873, is a work by Jules Verne. It explores elements such as balloon, doctor and stake.

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Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon — Chapter Twenty-Second… (1873)

“ The crowd of blacks, when they saw the balloon over their heads, like a huge comet with a train of dazzling light, were seized with a terror that may be readily imagined. Upon hearing their cries, the prisoner raised his head. His eyes gleamed with sudden hope, and, without too thoroughly comprehending what was taking place, he stretched out his hands to his unexpected deliverers.
"He is alive!" exclaimed Ferguson. "God be praised! The savages have got a fine scare, and we shall save him! Are you ready, friends?"
"Ready, doctor, at the word."
"Joe, shut off the cylinder!" ”

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Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon — Chapter Twenty-Second… (1873)

“ Toward evening the balloon remained stationary in the midst of the gloom, and during the night, while Kennedy and Joe relieved each other in carefully tending the sick man, Ferguson kept watch over the safety of all.
By the morning of the next day, the balloon had moved, but very slightly, to the westward. The dawn came up pure and magnificent. The sick man was able to call his friends with a stronger voice. They raised the curtains of the awning, and he inhaled with delight the keen morning air.
"How do you feel to-day?" asked the doctor. ”

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Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon — Chapter Twenty-Second… (1873)

“ A hundred feet below the balloon stood a large post, or stake, and at its foot lay a human being--a young man of thirty years or more, with long black hair, half naked, wasted and wan, bleeding, covered with wounds, his head bowed over upon his breast, as Christ's was, when He hung upon the cross.
The hair, cut shorter on the top of his skull, still indicated the place of a half-effaced tonsure.
"A missionary! a priest!" exclaimed Joe.
"Poor, unfortunate man!" said Kennedy.
"We must save him, Dick!" responded the doctor; "we must save him!" ”

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Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon — Chapter Twenty-Second… (1873)

“ For a year past he had been residing with that tribe of the Nyam-Nyams known as the Barafri, one of the wildest and most ferocious of them all. The chief having died a few days before our travellers appeared, his sudden death was attributed to the missionary, and the tribe resolved to immolate him. His sufferings had already continued for the space of forty hours, and, as the doctor had supposed, he was to have perished in the blaze of the noonday sun. When he heard the sound of fire-arms, nature got the best of him, and he had cried out, "Help! help!" ”

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Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon — Chapter Twenty-Second… (1873)

“ I have been without news for the last five years!"
"Five years! alone! and among these savages!" exclaimed Kennedy with amazement.
"They are souls to redeem! ignorant and barbarous brethren, whom religion alone can instruct and civilize."
Dr. Ferguson, yielding to the priest's request, talked to him long and fully about France. He listened eagerly, and his eyes filled with tears. He seized Kennedy's and Joe's hands by turns in his own, which were burning with fever. The doctor prepared him some tea, and he drank it with satisfaction. ”

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Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon — Chapter Twenty-Second… (1873)

“ Who are you --that your names may not be forgotten in my dying prayers?"
"We are English travellers," replied Ferguson. "We are trying to cross Africa in a balloon, and, on our way, we have had the good fortune to rescue you."
"Science has its heroes," said the missionary.
"But religion its martyrs!" rejoined the Scot.
"Are you a missionary?" asked the doctor. ”

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Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon — Chapter Twenty-Second… (1873)

“ From the sea-coast, overcoming obstacles, little by little, braving all privations, pushing onward, afoot, and praying, he had advanced to the very centre of those tribes that dwell among the tributary streams of the Upper Nile. ”

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