Five Weeks in a Balloon - 29

by Jules Verne in English Adventure Stories

Chapter 29 Signs of Vegetation.—The Fantastic Notion of a French Author.—A Magnificent Country.—The Kingdom of Adamova.—The Explorations of Speke and Burton con-nected with those of Dr. Barth.—The Atlantika Moun-tains.—The River Benoue.—The City of Yola.—The Bagele.—Mount Mendif. From the moment ...Read Moretheir departure, the travellers moved with great velocity. They longed to leave behind them the desert, which had so nearly been fatal to them. About a quarter-past nine in the morning, they caught a glimpse of some signs of vegetation: herbage floating on that sea of sand, and announcing, as the weeds upon the ocean did to Christopher Columbus, the Read Less