American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-09-03
TOUR OF THE WORLD IN
EIGHTY DAYS.

CHAPTER XI.

thAfIEh AL
IN WHICH PuILEAs FoGG BUYS A CONVEYANCE
At A FABULOUS PRICE
The train had started on time. /
carried n certain number of travellers
some officers. civil officials. and opium
and indigo merchants, whose bushes:
called them to the eastern part of tn,
peninsula
Passepartout occupied the same com
partment rs his master. A third trav
eler was in the opposite corner.
1t was the Brigadier General, Sill
Francis Cromarty. one of the partner.
of MIR. Fogg curing the trip from Suel
to Bombay, who WAS rejoining hi:
troops stationed near Benares. He wa:
a well-posted man, who would have
been glad to give Information as to the
manners. the history, the organization
of this Indian country, if PhIleas Foge
had been the man to ask for such things
But this genSeman was not asking any.
thing. He was not travelling, he was
describing a circumference. He was O
heavy body, traversing an orbit around
the terrestrial globe, according TO the
laws of rational mechanics. At this
moment he was going over in his mind
the calculations of the hours consumed
since his departure from London, and
he would have rubbed his hands, if il
had been in his nature to make a useless
movement.
Sir Francis Cromarty had recognized
the originality of mis- travelling compan-
ion. although he had only stud ed him
with his cards in his hands. and be-
tween two rubbers. He was ready to
ask whether a human heart beat be-
meath this cold exterior. whether Phil
cas- Fogg had a soul alive to the beau
ties of nature and to moral aspirations.
That was the question for him. OF all
the oddities the General had met, none
were to be compared to this product OF
the exact sciences. Phileas Fogg had
not kept secret from Sir Francis Gro
marty his plan for q tour around the
world, nor the conditions under which
he was carrying it out. The General
saw in this bet only an cccentricity
without a useful aim, and which was
wanting necessarily in the transire ben
efdciendO which ought to guide every
man.
From time to time Sir Francis Gro
marty and Phileas Fogg exchanged a
few words, and at this moment the
General. recommending a conversation
which frequently Jagged, said:
"A few years ago, MIR. Fogg. you
would have experienced at this point a
delay which would have probably inter-
rupted your Journey"
"Why so, Sir Francis?'
Because the railway stopped at the
base of these mountains. which had to
be crossed in a palanquin or on a pony's
back as far as the station of Kandallah,
on the opposite slope
THAT delay would not have de-
ranged my Programme" replied Mr.
Fogg. II would have foreseen the
of certain obsi acles.''
But. Mr.. Fogg." replied the Gen.
eral. "you are in danger of having a
bad business ON your hands with this
young mans adventure"
Passepartout, with his feet wrapped
up in his cloak, was sleeping soundly
and did not dream that they were talk
ing about him.
1.-The English Government is eN-
tremely severe, and rightly, for this
kind of trespass," replied Sir Francis
Cromarty. lit insists, above all
things. that the religious customs of
the Hindoos shall be respected, and if
your servant had been taken"
Yes, If he had been taken. Sir
Francis" replied Mr.. Fogg, - he would
have been sentenced. he would have
undergone his pun .shment. and then he
would have quietly returned to Europe.
do not see how this matter could have
DELAYED his masterr'
stopped again. During the night the
rain crossed the Chants, passed on to
Mass K, and the next day. the 21st of
October, it was hurrying across a COM
oaratively fat country, formed by the
khaedeish territory.
Passepart0ut having walked up, looked
and could not believe that he
vas crossing the country of the Hindoos
n train Of the Great Peninsular Rail
way. 1t appeared improbable to him.
And yet there was nothing more real!
During the morning, beyond the sta
ion of Maligaum, the travellers travers-
ID that fatal territory. which was SO
frequently drenched with blood by the
ectaries of the goddess Kali. Not far
IF rose Ellora and its splendid pagodas,
md the celebrated Aurungabad. the
;apital of the ferocious Aureng Zeb,
low simply the principal place of one
II the provinces detached from the
Iingdom of Nizam.
At half-past twelve, the train stopped
It the station at Burhampour, and
was able to obtain for
,old pair of Indian slippers, orna-
nented with false pearls, which he put
IN with an evident show of vanity.
he travellers took a hasty breakfast,
md started again for Assurghur, after
laving for moment stopped upon the
hore of the Tapty, asmall river empty
ng into the Gulf of Candy, near Surat.
IL is oPportune to mention the
with which Passepartout was
usied. Until his arrival at Bombay,
le had thought that matters would go
70 farther. But now that he was hurry
ng at full speed across India, his mind
ad undergone change. His natural
ceilings came back to him with a rush.
lie felt again the fanciful ideas of his
outh, he took seriously his masters
'lans, he believed in the reality of the |
yet, and. consequently, in this tour of the |
Torld. and in this maximum of time
Thich could not be exceeded. Already |
q was disturbed at the possible DELAYS,
he accidents which might occur upon |
ne route. He felt interested in the |
'ager, and trembled at the thought |
hat he might have compromised it the |
vening before by his objectionable |
so that, much less phleg-
iatic than Mr.. Fogg. he was much |
lOre uneasy. He counted and re-
ounted the days that had passed.
ursed the stopping of the train, ac-
used it OF slowness, and blamed MIR. |
ogg TN petto for not having promised a
sward to the engineer. The good fell
wv did not know that what was posi-
lie upon a steamer was not on a rail- |
'ay tran, whose speed is regulated.
Towards evening they entered the
efiles OF the mountains of Sutpour,
thieh separate the territory of Khan
eish from that of Bunde.cund
Tho he -