Five Weeks in a Balloon Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen

Publisher's note: "Compiled in French by Jules Verne, from the original notes of Dr. Ferguson; and done into English by "William Lackland." Dr. Ferguson is the fictional protagonist. William Lackland is the pseudonym of the anonymous translator, used by the New York publisher for this 1869 edition, as archived at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, cf.: http://www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imagegalaxy_imageDetail.cfm?id_image=7666