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1DURING WHICH MR. FOGG AND PARTY CROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN What happened when the pilot-boat came in sight of Shanghai will
2be easily guessed. The signals made by the "Tankadere" had been seen by the captain of the Yokohama steamer, who,
3espying the flag at half-mast, had directed his course towards the little craft. Phileas Fogg, after paying the
4stipulated price of his passage to John Busby, and rewarding that worthy with the additional sum of five hundred and
5fifty pounds, ascended the steamer with Aouda and Fix; and they started at once for Nagasaki and Yokohama. They reached
6their destination on the morning of the 14th of November. Phileas Fogg lost no time in going on board the "Carnatic,"
7where he learned, to Aouda's great delight--and perhaps to his own, though he betrayed no emotion--that Passepartout, a
8Frenchman, had really arrived on her the day before. The San Francisco steamer was announced to leave that very evening,
9and it became necessary to find Passepartout, if possible, without delay. Mr. Fogg applied in vain to the French and
10English consuls, and, after wandering through the streets a long time, began to despair of finding his missing servant.
11Chance, or perhaps a kind of presentiment, at last led him into the Honourable Mr. Batulcar's theatre. He certainly
12would not have recognised Passepartout in the eccentric mountebank's costume; but the latter, lying on his back,
13perceived his master in the gallery. He could not help starting, which so changed the position of his nose as to bring
14the "pyramid" pell-mell upon the stage. All this Passepartout learned from Aouda, who recounted to him what had taken
15place on the voyage from Hong Kong to Shanghai on the "Tankadere," in company with one Mr. Fix. Passepartout did not
16change countenance on hearing this name. He thought that the time had not yet arrived to divulge to his master what had
17taken place between the detective and himself; and, in the account he gave of his absence, he simply excused himself for
18having been overtaken by drunkenness, in smoking opium at a tavern in Hong Kong. Mr. Fogg heard this narrative coldly,
19without a word; and then furnished his man with funds necessary to obtain clothing more in harmony with his position.
20Within an hour the Frenchman had cut off his nose and parted with his wings, and retained nothing about him which
21recalled the sectary of the god Tingou. The steamer which was about to depart from Yokohama to San Francisco belonged to
22the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and was named the "General Grant." She was a large paddle-wheel steamer of two
23thousand five hundred tons; well equipped and very fast. The massive walking-beam rose and fell above the deck; at one
24end a piston-rod worked up and down; and at the other was a connecting-rod which, in changing the rectilinear motion to
25a circular one, was directly connected with the shaft of the paddles. The "General Grant" was rigged with three masts,
26giving a large capacity for sails, and thus materially aiding the steam power. By making twelve miles an hour, she would
27cross the ocean in twenty-one days. Phileas Fogg was therefore justified in hoping that he would reach San Francisco by
28the 2nd of December, New York by the 11th, and London on the 20th--thus gaining several hours on the fatal date of the
2921st of December. There was a full complement of passengers on board, among them English, many Americans, a large number
30of coolies on their way to California, and several East Indian officers, who were spending their vacation in making the
31tour of the world. Nothing of moment happened on the voyage; the steamer, sustained on its large paddles, rolled but
32little, and the "Pacific" almost justified its name. Mr. Fogg was as calm and taciturn as ever. His young companion felt
33herself more and more attached to him by other ties than gratitude; his silent but generous nature impressed her more
34than she thought; and it was almost unconsciously that she yielded to emotions which did not seem to have the least
35effect upon her protector. Aouda took the keenest interest in his plans, and became impatient at any incident which
36seemed likely to retard his journey. She often chatted with Passepartout, who did not fail to perceive the state of the
37lady's heart; and, being the most faithful of domestics, he never exhausted his eulogies of Phileas Fogg's honesty,
38generosity, and devotion. He took pains to calm Aouda's doubts of a successful termination of the journey, telling her
39that the most difficult part of it had passed, that now they were beyond the fantastic countries of Japan and China, and
40were fairly on their way to civilised places again. A railway train from San Francisco to New York, and a transatlantic
41steamer from New York to Liverpool, would doubtless bring them to the end of this impossible journey round the world
42within the period agreed upon. On the ninth day after leaving Yokohama, Phileas Fogg had traversed exactly one half of
43the terrestrial globe. The "General Grant" passed, on the 23rd of November, the one hundred and eightieth meridian, and
44was at the very antipodes of London. Mr. Fogg had, it is true, exhausted fifty-two of the eighty days in which he was to
45complete the tour, and there were only twenty-eight left. But, though he was only half-way by the difference of
46meridians, he had really gone over two-thirds of the whole journey; for he had been obliged to make long circuits from
47London to Aden, from Aden to Bombay, from Calcutta to Singapore, and from Singapore to Yokohama. Could he have followed
48without deviation the fiftieth parallel, which is that of London, the whole distance would only have been about twelve
49thousand miles; whereas he would be forced, by the irregular methods of locomotion, to traverse twenty-six thousand, of
50which he had, on the 23rd of November, accomplished seventeen thousand five hundred. And now the course was a straight
51one, and Fix was no longer there to put obstacles in their way! It happened also, on the 23rd of November, that
52Passepartout made a joyful discovery. It will be remembered that the obstinate fellow had insisted on keeping his famous
53family watch at London time, and on regarding that of the countries he had passed through as quite false and unreliable.
54Now, on this day, though he had not changed the hands, he found that his watch exactly agreed with the ship's
55chronometers. His triumph was hilarious. He would have liked to know what Fix would say if he were aboard! "The rogue
56told me a lot of stories," repeated Passepartout, "about the meridians, the sun, and the moon! Moon, indeed! moonshine
57more likely! If one listened to that sort of people, a pretty sort of time one would keep! I was sure that the sun would
58some day regulate itself by my watch!" Passepartout was ignorant that, if the face of his watch had been divided into
59twenty-four hours, like the Italian clocks, he would have no reason for exultation; for the hands of his watch would
60then, instead of as now indicating nine o'clock in the morning, indicate nine o'clock in the evening, that is, the
61twenty-first hour after midnight precisely the difference between London time and that of the one hundred and eightieth
62meridian. But if Fix had been able to explain this purely physical effect, Passepartout would not have admitted, even if
63he had comprehended it. Moreover, if the detective had been on board at that moment, Passepartout would have joined
64issue with him on a quite different subject, and in an entirely different manner. Where was Fix at that moment? He was
65actually on board the "General Grant." On reaching Yokohama, the detective, leaving Mr. Fogg, whom he expected to meet
66again during the day, had repaired at once to the English consulate, where he at last found the warrant of arrest. It
67had followed him from Bombay, and had come by the "Carnatic," on which steamer he himself was supposed to be. Fix's
68disappointment may be imagined when he reflected that the warrant was now useless. Mr. Fogg had left English ground, and
69it was now necessary to procure his extradition! "Well," thought Fix, after a moment of anger, "my warrant is not good
70here, but it will be in England. The rogue evidently intends to return to his own country, thinking he has thrown the
71police off his track. Good! I will follow him across the Atlantic. As for the money, heaven grant there may be some
72left! But the fellow has already spent in travelling, rewards, trials, bail, elephants, and all sorts of charges, more
73than five thousand pounds. Yet, after all, the Bank is rich!"
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