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The End of a much-applauded Speech.—The Presenta-tion of Dr. Samuel Ferguson. — Excelsior.— Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.—A Fatalist convinced.—A Dinner at the Travellers' Club.—Several Toasts for the Occasion.
There was a large audience assembled on the 14th of Janu-ary, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geographical Society, No. 3 Waterloo Place, London. The president, Sir Francis M——, made an important communication to his colleagues, in an address that was frequently interrupted by applause.
This rare specimen of eloquence terminated with the follow-ing sonorous phrases bubbling over with patriotism:
"England has always marched at the head of nations" (for, the reader will observe, the nations always march at the head of each other), "by the intrepidity of her explorers in the line of geographical discovery." (General assent). "Dr. Samuel Fer-guson, one of her most glorious sons, will not reflect discredit on his origin." ("No, indeed!" from all parts of the hall.)
"This attempt, should it succeed" ("It will succeed!"), "will complete and link together the notions, as yet disjointed, which the world entertains of African cartology" (vehement ap-plause); "and, should it fail, it will, at least, remain on record as one of the most daring conceptions of human genius!" (Tre-mendous cheering.)
Jules Verne About Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828–March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand ...Read MoreUnder The Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to Index Transla-tionum. Some of his books have been made into
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
Chapter 3 The Doctor's Friend.—The Origin of their Friend-ship.—Dick Kennedy at London.—An unexpected but not very consoling Proposal.—A Proverb by no means cheer-ing.—A few Names from the African Martyrology.—The Advantages of a Balloon.—Dr. Ferguson's Secret. Dr. Ferguson had a ...Read Moreanother self, indeed, an alter ego, for friendship could not exist between two beings exactly alike. But, if they possessed different qualities, aptitudes, and tem-peraments, Dick Kennedy and Samuel Ferguson lived with one and the same heart, and that gave them no great trouble. In fact, quite the reverse. Dick Kennedy was a Scotchman, in the full acceptation of the
Chapter 4 African Explorations.—Barth, Richardson, Overweg, Werne, Brun-Rollet, Penney, Andrea, Debono, Miani, Guillaume Lejean, Bruce, Krapf and Rebmann, Maizan, Roscher, Burton and Speke. The aerial line which Dr. Ferguson counted upon following had not been chosen at random; his ...Read Moreof departure had been carefully studied, and it was not without good cause that he had resolved to ascend at the island of Zanzibar. This is-land, lying near to the eastern coast of Africa, is in the sixth degree of south latitude, that is to say, four hundred and thirty geographical miles below the equator. From this island the latest
Chapter 5 Kennedy's Dreams.—Articles and Pronouns in the Plur-al.—Dick's Insinuations. —A Promenade over the Map of Africa.—What is contained between two Points of the Compass.—Expeditions now on foot.—Speke and Grant.—Krapf, De Decken, and De Heuglin. Dr. Ferguson energetically pushed ...Read Morepreparations for his departure, and in person superintended the construction of his balloon, with certain modifications; in regard to which he ob-served the most absolute silence. For a long time past he had been applying himself to the study of the Arab language and the various Mandingoe idioms, and, thanks to his talents as a polyglot, he had made rapid