Five Weeks in a Balloon - 2

by Jules Verne in English Adventure Stories

Chapter 2 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. On the next day, in its number of January ...Read Morethe Daily Telegraph published an article couched in the following terms: "Africa is, at length, about to surrender the secret of her vast solitudes; a modern OEdipus is to give us the key to that en-igma which the learned men of sixty centuries have not been able to decipher. In other days, to seek the sources of the Nile—fontes Nili Read Less