about eight in the evening
By-the-way , the moon did come up , too , and all red , as if she was in a rage . '' While the three friends went on chatting of this and other things , and Joe examined the luminary of night from an entirely novel point of view , the heavens became covered with heavy clouds to the northward , and the lowering masses assumed a most sinister and threatening look . Quite a smart breeze , found about three hundred feet from the earth , drove the balloon toward the north-northeast ; and above it the blue vault was clear ; but the atmosphere felt close and dull . The aeronauts found themselves , at about eight in the evening , in thirty-two degrees forty minutes east longitude , and four degrees seventeen minutes latitude . The atmospheric currents , under the influence of a tempest not far off , were driving them at the rate of from thirty to thirty-five miles an hour ; the undulating and fertile plains of Mfuto were passing swiftly beneath them . The spectacle was one worthy of admiration -- and admire it they did . `` We are now right in the country of the Moon , '' said Dr. Ferguson ; `` for it has retained the name that antiquity gave it , undoubtedly , because the moon has been worshipped there in all ages .