Five Weeks in a Balloon - 35

by Jules Verne in English Adventure Stories

Chapter 35 What happened to Joe.—The Island of the Biddio-mahs.—The Adoration shown him.—The Island that sank.—The Shores of the Lake.—The Tree of the Ser-pents.—The Foot-Tramp.—Terrible Suffering.—Mosqui-toes and Ants.—Hunger.—The Victoria seen.—She disap-pears.—The Swamp. —One Last Despairing Cry. What had become ...Read MoreJoe, while his master was thus vainly seeking for him? When he had dashed headlong into the lake, his first move-ment on coming to the surface was to raise his eyes and look upward. He saw the Victoria already risen far above the water, still rapidly ascending and growing smaller and smaller. It was soon caught in a rapid current Read Less