Five Weeks in a Balloon: A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa

Excerpt from Five Weeks in a Balloon: A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa

Dr. Samuel Fergusson his projected Journey how to accomplish it. - Dick Kennedy his attempts at Dissuasion their Failure.

There have been disputes as to the originator of the great idea of traversing the African continent, in a manner to be independent of its multitudinous and deadly obstrue tions; but the subjoined narrative will, we cannot doubt, be sufficient to assure the reader that the man who under took, and in the face of unexampled difficulties carried out, the project, conceived it, and stands indebted to no one for the honours now accumulating on the name of Dr. Samuel Fergusson.

Among men of science, the claims of any other than Fergusson to this invention of a method of, as it were, laying bare the bosom of a mighty continent at one blow.

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