American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-27

dred and ten millions of inhabitants. It
il sufficient To say that prominent part
of the territory is still free from tho
authority OF the Queen; and, indeed,
with some of the ia jahs of the interior,
fierce and terrible, Hindoo indepcnd.
ence is still absolute. Steamboats,
traverse with great rapidty the Indus
and the Ganges and Il railway crossing
the entire breadth of India, and branch
ing i'll various directions, PUTS Bombay
at only three days from Calcutta
The route of this railway does not
follow n straight line across India. The
air line distance is only one thousand to
eleven hundred miles. and trains, going
at only an average rapidity, would not
take three days to make It; but this
distance is Increased at least one third
by the arc described by the railway ris-
Ing to Allahabad, in the northern part
OF the peninsula.
1t was at half past four p. III. that tho
passengers of the Mongolia had landed
in Bombay, and the train for Calcutta
would leave Mt precisely eight o clock.
Mr.. Fogg then took leave of his part
ners, left the steamer. gave his servant
directions for some purchases, recon-
mended him expressly to be Mt the sta
ton before eight o'clock, and with his
regular step, which beat the second like
the pendulum of an astronomical clock,
he turned his steps towards the pass
port office. He did not think of looking
at any of the wonders of Bombay.
After leaving the passport, office.
Phileas Fogg quietly repaired to the
station. and there had dinner served.
A few minutes after Mr.. Fogg. the
detective Fix also landed from the
Mongolia, and fastened to the Com
missioner of Police in Bombay. He
made himself known in his capacity as
detective, the mission with which he was
charged, his position towards the rob-
Der. Had a warrant of arrest been re-
ceived from London? They had re-
ceived nothing. And, in fact the war
rant, leaving after Fogg cou, Id not
have arrived yet.
Fix was very much out of countenance.
He wished to obtain from the Com
missioner an order for the arrest of
this gentleman Fogg. The director re-
fused. The affair concerned the metro
politan Government, and it alone could
legally deliver n warrant. This strictness
of principles, this rigorous observance
of legality is easily explained with tho
English manners, which, in the matter
of personal liberty, does not allow any
thing arbitrary. Fix did not persist.
and understood that he would have to
be resigned to waiting for his warrant.
But he resolved not to lose sight of his
rogue. whilst he remained
in Bombay. He did not doubt that
Phileas Fogg would stop there-and as
we know, it was also Passepartout'
which would give the war
rant of arrest the time to arrive.
But after the last orders which his
master had given him on leaving the
Mongolia, Passcpartout had understood
very well that it would be the same with
as with Suez and Paris, that
the journey would not stop here, that it
would be continued at least as far as
Calcutta, and perhaps further. And he
began to ask himself if, after all, this
bet of MIR. Fogg was not really serious,
and if fatality was not dragging him,
he who wished to live at rest. to ac-
the tour of the world in eighty
days! Whilst waiting, and after hay
took n walk through the streets of Bonn
bay. There was a great crowd of peo-
pie there, and among them Europeans of
all nationalities, Persians with pointed
caps, Bunyas with round turbans, Sim
robes, Parsees in black miters. A fss-
Iival was just being held by the Par
sees, the direct descendants of the fol-
lowers of Zoroaster, who are the most
the most civilized, the most
the most austere of the Hin
loos-a race to which now belong the
rich native merchants of Bombay. Up
On this day they were celebrating a sort
Of religious carnival, with professions
md amusemcnts, in which figured dane
ng girls dressed in rosc-colOred gauze
with gold and silver, who
lanced wonderfully and with perfect
lecency TO the sound of viols and tam
ans.
1t is superfiuous TO insist here wheth-
,r Passepartout looked at these curious
whether his eyes and ears
we're stretched wide open to see and
near, whether his entire. appearance
vas that of the freshest greenhorn that
AN be imaein Unfortunately for
himself and his master, whose journey
,sity dragged him further than was
proper.
In fact, after having looked at this
Parsce carnival. Passepartout turned
owards the station, when, passing the |
plendid pagoda on Malebar Hill, he |
ook the unfortunate notion to visit its |
Interior. He was ignorant of two |
Kings: First, that the entrance into |
certain HindOo pagodas is formally for
hidden to Christians, and next, that the |
believers themselves can not enter there |
Without having left their shoes at the
loor. 1t must be remarked here that |
he English Government, for sound po-
itical reasons, respecting and causing
o be respected in its most Insignificant
letails the religion of the country, pun
shes severely whoever violates its prac-
ices. Passepartout, having gone in,
sithout thinking of doing wrong. like
nipple traveller, was admiring in the in
erior the dazzling glare of the Brah-
min ornamentation, when he was sud-
lcnly thrown down on the sacred iOor.
Three priests. with furious looks,
ushed upon him, tore off his shoes and
tockings, and commenced to beat him,
ttering savage cries. The Frenchman,
igorous and agile, rose again quickly.
With a blow OF his fist and kick he
lpset two of his adversaries, very much
ampered by their long robes, and
ushing out of the pagOda with all tho
thickness of his legs, he had soon dis
anced the third HindoO, who had fol-
owed him closely, by mingling with
he crowd.
At five minutes of eight. just few
minutes before the leaving of the train,
atless and barefoot, having lost in the
cuffle the bundle containing his pur-
bases, Passepartout arrived at the rail
ray station. Fix was on the wharf.
Iaving followed Mr.. Fogg to the sta
ion, he understood that the rogue was