Five Weeks in a Balloon

CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD.

Joe in a Fit of Rage.–The Death of a Good Man.–The Night of watch­ing by the Body.–Bar­ren­ness and Drought.–The Buri­al.–The Quartz Rocks.–Joe’s Hal­lu­ci­na­tions.–A Pre­cious Bal­last.–A Sur­vey of the Gold-​bear­ing Moun­tains. –The Be­gin­ning of Joe’s De­spair