Five Weeks in a Balloon - 26

by Jules Verne in English Adventure Stories

Chapter 26 One Hundred and Thirteen Degrees.—The Doctor's Re-flections.—A Desperate Search.—The Cylinder goes out.—One Hundred and Twenty-two Degrees.— Contemplation of the Desert.—A Night Walk.—Solitude.—Debility.—Joe's Prospects.—He gives himself One Day more. The distance made by the balloon during the preceding ...Read Moredid not exceed ten miles, and, to keep it afloat, one hundred and sixty-two cubic feet of gas had been consumed. On Saturday morning the doctor again gave the signal for departure. "The cylinder can work only six hours longer; and, if in that time we shall not have found either a well or a spring of water, God alone Read Less