Título original: Cinq semaines en ballon
Dr. Samuel Fergusson at the Royal Geographical Society of London, explains his desire to cross Africa from north to south in a balloon, which was a great surprise and disbelief after generated in the room, as it was impossible at the time.
To this he fell Dick Kennedy's visit, a friend who is a hunter, and lives in Scotland. To be to desist from his project, Dr. Fergunsson, I try to convince migo her to but this was refused, he told her strength and, when she learned that her project doctor was lead escort, which happened until the end of journey.
But Dr. Samuel Fergunsson, continued his project, which carried out secretly with MM workshops. Which strictly they followed his instructions.
When he was ready, he was transferred to a ship called the Resolote in Greenwich Harbor. When I know finalized preparations direction was taken to Tanzania Zanzibar Island, located off the eastern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. To take advantage of updrafts of Africa to reach the north.
After a fairly quiet street, they came to the island of Zanzibar. Where the Imam. We were greeted with open arms, putting at their disposal everything necessary for the trip, giving an islet in the area to perform the maneuver of the load of hydrogen in the balloon called Victoria, for the trip which was done in just a days.
When the balloon was about the journey north began. All that remains are a number of obstacles wiling cross Africa are slowly overcoming, being attacked by monkeys, and especially with the natives: to be taken as something to be destroyed without mercy, for children of the moon and be cult objects, saving the life of a French priest of the hands of a tribe, the balloon being pulled by a huge pachyderm by the plateaus of Africa, suffer depressions, like crossing vast desert and endless adversity all magnitude of which gracefully exit.
In addition, of course, improve and expand all the maps of the period, plus an amount of fabulous discoveries.
Until they arrive, the Senegal River in Guinea, which is the end of your adventure or rather his odyssey
