They follow the procession to the site, where Passepartout secretly takes the place of Aouda's deceased husband on the funeral pyre, on which she is to be burned the next morning. Since the young woman is drugged with the smoke of opium and hemp and obviously not going voluntarily, the travelers decide to rescue her. As it turns out, the construction of the railway is not totally finished, so they are forced to get over the remaining gap between two stations by riding an elephant, which Phileas Fogg purchases at the prodigious price of 2,000 pounds.ĭuring the ride, they come across a suttee procession, in which a young Parsi woman, Aouda, is led to a sanctuary to be sacrificed the next day by Thuggee worshipers. Still on time, Fogg and Passepartout switch to the railway in Bombay, setting off for Calcutta, Fix now following them undercover. During the voyage, Fix gets acquainted with Passepartout, without revealing his purpose. Since he cannot secure a warrant in time, Fix goes on board of the steamer conveying the travelers to Bombay. Because Fogg matches the description of the bank robber, Fix mistakes Fogg to be the criminal. While disembarking in Egypt, he is watched by a Scotland Yard detective named Fix, who has been dispatched from London in search of a bank robber. on October 2, 1872, and thus is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, on December 21.įogg and Passepartout reach Suez in time. Accompanied by his manservant Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8.45 p.m. He accepts a wager for £20,000 from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. This calculation does not take into account practical matters like trouble finding transportation, but Fogg is sure that with his superbly calculative mind he can actually do it. Later that day in the Reform Club, he gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph, stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He hires as a replacement Passepartout, a Frenchman of around 30 years of age.

He fires his former valet, James Forster, for bringing him shaving water two degrees too cold. The source of his wealth is not known and he lives modestly. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy, solitary, unmarried gentleman with regular habits. The story starts in London on October 2, 1872.

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