Title: Five Weeks in a Balloon

Author: Jules Verne

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER FIRST.

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

CHAPTER SECOND.

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

CHAPTER THIRD.

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

CHAPTER FOURTH.

African Explorations.--Barth, Richardson, Overweg, Werne, Brun-Rollet, Penney,

Andrea, Debono, Miani, Guillaume Lejean, Brace, Krapf and Rebmann,

Maizan, Roscher, Burton and Speke

CHAPTER FIFTH.

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

CHAPTER SIXTH.

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

CHAPTER SEVENTH.

Geometrical Details.--Calculation of the Capacity of the Balloon.--The Double