Five Weeks in a Balloon Chapter 16

In which the travellers find themselves suspended over the fertile and luxuriant plains of the so-called country of the Moon, discoursing on the future promise of Africa amid sumptuous natural splendours, while looming atmospheric disturbances forewarn an approaching tropical tempest. As electric storms rage fiercely around their fragile balloon, they bravely ascend to evade the fiery disaster below, emerging above the tempest into the serene starry heavens.