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1IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT FINDS OUT THAT, EVEN AT THE ANTIPODES, IT IS CONVENIENT TO HAVE SOME MONEY IN ONE'S POCKET The
2"Carnatic," setting sail from Hong Kong at half-past six on the 7th of November, directed her course at full steam
3towards Japan. She carried a large cargo and a well-filled cabin of passengers. Two state-rooms in the rear were,
4however, unoccupied--those which had been engaged by Phileas Fogg. The next day a passenger with a half-stupefied eye,
5staggering gait, and disordered hair, was seen to emerge from the second cabin, and to totter to a seat on deck. It was
6Passepartout; and what had happened to him was as follows: Shortly after Fix left the opium den, two waiters had lifted
7the unconscious Passepartout, and had carried him to the bed reserved for the smokers. Three hours later, pursued even
8in his dreams by a fixed idea, the poor fellow awoke, and struggled against the stupefying influence of the narcotic.
9The thought of a duty unfulfilled shook off his torpor, and he hurried from the abode of drunkenness. Staggering and
10holding himself up by keeping against the walls, falling down and creeping up again, and irresistibly impelled by a kind
11of instinct, he kept crying out, "The 'Carnatic!' the 'Carnatic!'" The steamer lay puffing alongside the quay, on the
12point of starting. Passepartout had but few steps to go; and, rushing upon the plank, he crossed it, and fell
13unconscious on the deck, just as the "Carnatic" was moving off. Several sailors, who were evidently accustomed to this
14sort of scene, carried the poor Frenchman down into the second cabin, and Passepartout did not wake until they were one
15hundred and fifty miles away from China. Thus he found himself the next morning on the deck of the "Carnatic," and
16eagerly inhaling the exhilarating sea-breeze. The pure air sobered him. He began to collect his sense, which he found a
17difficult task; but at last he recalled the events of the evening before, Fix's revelation, and the opium-house. "It is
18evident," said he to himself, "that I have been abominably drunk! What will Mr. Fogg say? At least I have not missed the
19steamer, which is the most important thing." Then, as Fix occurred to him: "As for that rascal, I hope we are well rid
20of him, and that he has not dared, as he proposed, to follow us on board the "Carnatic." A detective on the track of Mr.
21Fogg, accused of robbing the Bank of England! Pshaw! Mr. Fogg is no more a robber than I am a murderer." Should he
22divulge Fix's real errand to his master? Would it do to tell the part the detective was playing? Would it not be better
23to wait until Mr. Fogg reached London again, and then impart to him that an agent of the metropolitan police had been
24following him round the world, and have a good laugh over it? No doubt; at least, it was worth considering. The first
25thing to do was to find Mr. Fogg, and apologise for his singular behaviour. Passepartout got up and proceeded, as well
26as he could with the rolling of the steamer, to the after-deck. He saw no one who resembled either his master or Aouda.
27"Good!" muttered he; "Aouda has not got up yet, and Mr. Fogg has probably found some partners at whist." He descended to
28the saloon. Mr. Fogg was not there. Passepartout had only, however, to ask the purser the number of his master's
29state-room. The purser replied that he did not know any passenger by the name of Fogg. "I beg your pardon," said
30Passepartout persistently. "He is a tall gentleman, quiet, and not very talkative, and has with him a young lady--"
31"There is no young lady on board," interrupted the purser. "Here is a list of the passengers; you may see for yourself."
32Passepartout scanned the list, but his master's name was not upon it. All at once an idea struck him. "Ah! am I on the
33'Carnatic?'" "Yes." "On the way to Yokohama?" "Certainly." Passepartout had for an instant feared that he was on the
34wrong boat; but, though he was really on the "Carnatic," his master was not there. He fell thunderstruck on a seat. He
35saw it all now. He remembered that the time of sailing had been changed, that he should have informed his master of that
36fact, and that he had not done so. It was his fault, then, that Mr. Fogg and Aouda had missed the steamer. Yes, but it
37was still more the fault of the traitor who, in order to separate him from his master, and detain the latter at Hong
38Kong, had inveigled him into getting drunk! He now saw the detective's trick; and at this moment Mr. Fogg was certainly
39ruined, his bet was lost, and he himself perhaps arrested and imprisoned! At this thought Passepartout tore his hair.
40Ah, if Fix ever came within his reach, what a settling of accounts there would be! After his first depression,
41Passepartout became calmer, and began to study his situation. It was certainly not an enviable one. He found himself on
42the way to Japan, and what should he do when he got there? His pocket was empty; he had not a solitary shilling, not so
43much as a penny. His passage had fortunately been paid for in advance; and he had five or six days in which to decide
44upon his future course. He fell to at meals with an appetite, and ate for Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and himself. He helped
45himself as generously as if Japan were a desert, where nothing to eat was to be looked for. At dawn on the 13th the
46"Carnatic" entered the port of Yokohama. This is an important port of call in the Pacific, where all the mail-steamers,
47and those carrying travellers between North America, China, Japan, and the Oriental islands put in. It is situated in
48the bay of Yeddo, and at but a short distance from that second capital of the Japanese Empire, and the residence of the
49Tycoon, the civil Emperor, before the Mikado, the spiritual Emperor, absorbed his office in his own. The "Carnatic"
50anchored at the quay near the custom-house, in the midst of a crowd of ships bearing the flags of all nations.
51Passepartout went timidly ashore on this so curious territory of the Sons of the Sun. He had nothing better to do than,
52taking chance for his guide, to wander aimlessly through the streets of Yokohama. He found himself at first in a
53thoroughly European quarter, the houses having low fronts, and being adorned with verandas, beneath which he caught
54glimpses of neat peristyles. This quarter occupied, with its streets, squares, docks, and warehouses, all the space
55between the "promontory of the Treaty" and the river. Here, as at Hong Kong and Calcutta, were mixed crowds of all
56races, Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to buy or sell anything. The Frenchman felt
57himself as much alone among them as if he had dropped down in the midst of Hottentots. He had, at least, one
58resource,--to call on the French and English consuls at Yokohama for assistance. But he shrank from telling the story of
59his adventures, intimately connected as it was with that of his master; and, before doing so, he determined to exhaust
60all other means of aid. As chance did not favour him in the European quarter, he penetrated that inhabited by the native
61Japanese, determined, if necessary, to push on to Yeddo. The Japanese quarter of Yokohama is called Benten, after the
62goddess of the sea, who is worshipped on the islands round about. There Passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar
63groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by
64immense cedar-trees, holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries of Confucius, and interminable
65streets, where a perfect harvest of rose-tinted and red-cheeked children, who looked as if they had been cut out of
66Japanese screens, and who were playing in the midst of short-legged poodles and yellowish cats, might have been
67gathered.
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