Five Weeks in a Balloon - 30

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Chapter 30 Mosfeia.—The Sheik.—Denham, Clapperton, and Oud-ney.—Vogel.—The Capital of Loggoum.—Toole.—Becalmed above Kernak.—The Governor and his Court. —The Attack.—The Incendiary Pigeons. On the next day, May 11th, the Victoria resumed her adven-turous journey. Her passengers had the same confidence in her that a good seaman has in his ship. In terrific hurricanes, in tropical heats, when making danger-ous departures, and descents still more dangerous, it had, at all times and in all places, come out safely. It might almost have been said that Ferguson managed it with a wave of the hand; and hence, without knowing in advance, where the point