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1IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SHOWS HIMSELF EQUAL TO THE OCCASION An hour after, the "Henrietta" passed the lighthouse which
2marks the entrance of the Hudson, turned the point of Sandy Hook, and put to sea. During the day she skirted Long
3Island, passed Fire Island, and directed her course rapidly eastward. At noon the next day, a man mounted the bridge to
4ascertain the vessel's position. It might be thought that this was Captain Speedy. Not the least in the world. It was
5Phileas Fogg, Esquire. As for Captain Speedy, he was shut up in his cabin under lock and key, and was uttering loud
6cries, which signified an anger at once pardonable and excessive. What had happened was very simple. Phileas Fogg wished
7to go to Liverpool, but the captain would not carry him there. Then Phileas Fogg had taken passage for Bordeaux, and,
8during the thirty hours he had been on board, had so shrewdly managed with his banknotes that the sailors and stokers,
9who were only an occasional crew, and were not on the best terms with the captain, went over to him in a body. This was
10why Phileas Fogg was in command instead of Captain Speedy; why the captain was a prisoner in his cabin; and why, in
11short, the "Henrietta" was directing her course towards Liverpool. It was very clear, to see Mr. Fogg manage the craft,
12that he had been a sailor. How the adventure ended will be seen anon. Aouda was anxious, though she said nothing. As for
13Passepartout, he thought Mr. Fogg's manœuvre simply glorious. The captain had said "between eleven and twelve knots,"
14and the "Henrietta" confirmed his prediction. If, then--for there were "ifs" still--the sea did not become too
15boisterous, if the wind did not veer round to the east, if no accident happened to the boat or its machinery, the
16"Henrietta" might cross the three thousand miles from New York to Liverpool in the nine days, between the 12th and the
1721st of December. It is true that, once arrived, the affair on board the "Henrietta," added to that of the Bank of
18England, might create more difficulties for Mr. Fogg than he imagined or could desire. During the first days, they went
19along smoothly enough. The sea was not very unpropitious, the wind seemed stationary in the north-east, the sails were
20hoisted, and the "Henrietta" ploughed across the waves like a real transatlantic steamer. Passepartout was delighted.
21His master's last exploit, the consequences of which he ignored, enchanted him. Never had the crew seen so jolly and
22dexterous a fellow. He formed warm friendships with the sailors, and amazed them with his acrobatic feats. He thought
23they managed the vessel like gentlemen, and that the stokers fired up like heroes. His loquacious good-humour infected
24everyone. He had forgotten the past, its vexations and delays. He only thought of the end, so nearly accomplished; and
25sometimes he boiled over with impatience, as if heated by the furnaces of the "Henrietta." Often, also, the worthy
26fellow revolved around Fix, looking at him with a keen, distrustful eye; but he did not speak to him, for their old
27intimacy no longer existed. Fix, it must be confessed, understood nothing of what was going on. The conquest of the
28"Henrietta," the bribery of the crew, Fogg managing the boat like a skilled seaman, amazed and confused him. He did not
29know what to think. For, after all, a man who began by stealing fifty-five thousand pounds might end by stealing a
30vessel; and Fix was not unnaturally inclined to conclude that the "Henrietta" under Fogg's command, was not going to
31Liverpool at all, but to some part of the world where the robber, turned into a pirate, would quietly put himself in
32safety. The conjecture was at least a plausible one, and the detective began to seriously regret that he had embarked on
33the affair. As for Captain Speedy, he continued to howl and growl in his cabin; and Passepartout, whose duty it was to
34carry him his meals, courageous as he was, took the greatest precautions. Mr. Fogg did not seem even to know that there
35was a captain on board. On the 13th they passed the edge of the Banks of Newfoundland, a dangerous locality; during the
36winter, especially, there are frequent fogs and heavy gales of wind. Ever since the evening before the barometer,
37suddenly falling, had indicated an approaching change in the atmosphere; and during the night the temperature varied,
38the cold became sharper, and the wind veered to the south-east. This was a misfortune. Mr. Fogg, in order not to deviate
39from his course, furled his sails and increased the force of the steam; but the vessel's speed slackened, owing to the
40state of the sea, the long waves of which broke against the stern. She pitched violently, and this retarded her
41progress. The breeze little by little swelled into a tempest, and it was to be feared that the "Henrietta" might not be
42able to maintain herself upright on the waves. Passepartout's visage darkened with the skies, and for two days the poor
43fellow experienced constant fright. But Phileas Fogg was a bold mariner, and knew how to maintain headway against the
44sea; and he kept on his course, without even decreasing his steam. The "Henrietta," when she could not rise upon the
45waves, crossed them, swamping her deck, but passing safely. Sometimes the screw rose out of the water, beating its
46protruding end, when a mountain of water raised the stern above the waves; but the craft always kept straight ahead. The
47wind, however, did not grow as boisterous as might have been feared; it was not one of those tempests which burst, and
48rush on with a speed of ninety miles an hour. It continued fresh, but, unhappily, it remained obstinately in the
49south-east, rendering the sails useless. The 16th of December was the seventy-fifth day since Phileas Fogg's departure
50from London, and the "Henrietta" had not yet been seriously delayed. Half of the voyage was almost accomplished, and the
51worst localities had been passed. In summer, success would have been well-nigh certain. In winter, they were at the
52mercy of the bad season. Passepartout said nothing; but he cherished hope in secret, and comforted himself with the
53reflection that, if the wind failed them, they might still count on the steam. On this day the engineer came on deck,
54went up to Mr. Fogg, and began to speak earnestly with him. Without knowing why it was a presentiment, perhaps
55Passepartout became vaguely uneasy. He would have given one of his ears to hear with the other what the engineer was
56saying. He finally managed to catch a few words, and was sure he heard his master say, "You are certain of what you tell
57me?" "Certain, sir," replied the engineer. "You must remember that, since we started, we have kept up hot fires in all
58our furnaces, and, though we had coal enough to go on short steam from New York to Bordeaux, we haven't enough to go
59with all steam from New York to Liverpool." "I will consider," replied Mr. Fogg. Passepartout understood it all; he was
60seized with mortal anxiety. The coal was giving out! "Ah, if my master can get over that," muttered he, "he'll be a
61famous man!" He could not help imparting to Fix what he had overheard. "Then you believe that we really are going to
62Liverpool?" "Of course." "Ass!" replied the detective, shrugging his shoulders and turning on his heel. Passepartout was
63on the point of vigorously resenting the epithet, the reason of which he could not for the life of him comprehend; but
64he reflected that the unfortunate Fix was probably very much disappointed and humiliated in his self-esteem, after
65having so awkwardly followed a false scent around the world, and refrained. And now what course would Phileas Fogg
66adopt? It was difficult to imagine. Nevertheless he seemed to have decided upon one, for that evening he sent for the
67engineer, and said to him, "Feed all the fires until the coal is exhausted." A few moments after, the funnel of the
68"Henrietta" vomited forth torrents of smoke. The vessel continued to proceed with all steam on; but on the 18th, the
69engineer, as he had predicted, announced that the coal would give out in the course of the day. "Do not let the fires go
70down," replied Mr. Fogg. "Keep them up to the last. Let the valves be filled." Towards noon Phileas Fogg, having
71ascertained their position, called Passepartout, and ordered him to go for Captain Speedy. It was as if the honest
72fellow had been commanded to unchain a tiger. He went to the poop, saying to himself, "He will be like a madman!"
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