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The
country
between
San
Francisco
and
Sacramento
is
not
very
hilly
.
The
Central
Pacific
,
taking
Sacramento
for
its
starting-point
,
extends
eastward
to
meet
the
road
from
Omaha
.
The
line
from
San
Francisco
to
Sacramento
runs
in
a
north-easterly
direction
,
along
the
American
River
,
which
empties
into
San
Pablo
Bay
.
The
one
hundred
and
twenty
miles
between
these
cities
were
accomplished
in
six
hours
,
and
towards
midnight
,
while
fast
asleep
,
the
travellers
passed
through
Sacramento
;
so
that
they
saw
nothing
of
that
important
place
,
the
seat
of
the
State
government
,
with
its
fine
quays
,
its
broad
streets
,
its
noble
hotels
,
squares
,
and
churches
.
The
train
,
on
leaving
Sacramento
,
and
passing
the
junction
,
Roclin
,
Auburn
,
and
Colfax
,
entered
the
range
of
the
Sierra
Nevada
.
'
Cisco
was
reached
at
seven
in
the
morning
;
and
an
hour
later
the
dormitory
was
transformed
into
an
ordinary
car
,
and
the
travellers
could
observe
the
picturesque
beauties
of
the
mountain
region
through
which
they
were
steaming
.
The
railway
track
wound
in
and
out
among
the
passes
,
now
approaching
the
mountain-sides
,
now
suspended
over
precipices
,
avoiding
abrupt
angles
by
bold
curves
,
plunging
into
narrow
defiles
,
which
seemed
to
have
no
outlet
.
The
locomotive
,
its
great
funnel
emitting
a
weird
light
,
with
its
sharp
bell
,
and
its
cow-catcher
extended
like
a
spur
,
mingled
its
shrieks
and
bellowings
with
the
noise
of
torrents
and
cascades
,
and
twined
its
smoke
among
the
branches
of
the
gigantic
pines
.
There
were
few
or
no
bridges
or
tunnels
on
the
route
.
The
railway
turned
around
the
sides
of
the
mountains
,
and
did
not
attempt
to
violate
nature
by
taking
the
shortest
cut
from
one
point
to
another
.
The
train
entered
the
State
of
Nevada
through
the
Carson
Valley
about
nine
o'clock
,
going
always
northeasterly
;
and
at
midday
reached
Reno
,
where
there
was
a
delay
of
twenty
minutes
for
breakfast
.
From
this
point
the
road
,
running
along
Humboldt
River
,
passed
northward
for
several
miles
by
its
banks
;
then
it
turned
eastward
,
and
kept
by
the
river
until
it
reached
the
Humboldt
Range
,
nearly
at
the
extreme
eastern
limit
of
Nevada
.
Having
breakfasted
,
Mr.
Fogg
and
his
companions
resumed
their
places
in
the
car
,
and
observed
the
varied
landscape
which
unfolded
itself
as
they
passed
along
the
vast
prairies
,
the
mountains
lining
the
horizon
,
and
the
creeks
,
with
their
frothy
,
foaming
streams
.
Sometimes
a
great
herd
of
buffaloes
,
massing
together
in
the
distance
,
seemed
like
a
moveable
dam
.
These
innumerable
multitudes
of
ruminating
beasts
often
form
an
insurmountable
obstacle
to
the
passage
of
the
trains
;
thousands
of
them
have
been
seen
passing
over
the
track
for
hours
together
,
in
compact
ranks
.
The
locomotive
is
then
forced
to
stop
and
wait
till
the
road
is
once
more
clear
.
This
happened
,
indeed
,
to
the
train
in
which
Mr.
Fogg
was
travelling
.
About
twelve
o'clock
a
troop
of
ten
or
twelve
thousand
head
of
buffalo
encumbered
the
track
.
The
locomotive
,
slackening
its
speed
,
tried
to
clear
the
way
with
its
cow-catcher
;
but
the
mass
of
animals
was
too
great
.
The
buffaloes
marched
along
with
a
tranquil
gait
,
uttering
now
and
then
deafening
bellowings
.
There
was
no
use
of
interrupting
them
,
for
,
having
taken
a
particular
direction
,
nothing
can
moderate
and
change
their
course
;
it
is
a
torrent
of
living
flesh
which
no
dam
could
contain
.
The
travellers
gazed
on
this
curious
spectacle
from
the
platforms
;
but
Phileas
Fogg
,
who
had
the
most
reason
of
all
to
be
in
a
hurry
,
remained
in
his
seat
,
and
waited
philosophically
until
it
should
please
the
buffaloes
to
get
out
of
the
way
.
Passepartout
was
furious
at
the
delay
they
occasioned
,
and
longed
to
discharge
his
arsenal
of
revolvers
upon
them
.
