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"
Such
a
delay
would
not
have
deranged
my
plans
in
the
least
,
"
said
Mr.
Fogg
.
"
I
have
constantly
foreseen
the
likelihood
of
certain
obstacles
.
"
"
But
,
Mr.
Fogg
,
"
pursued
Sir
Francis
,
"
you
run
the
risk
of
having
some
difficulty
about
this
worthy
fellow
's
adventure
at
the
pagoda
.
"
Passepartout
,
his
feet
comfortably
wrapped
in
his
travelling-blanket
,
was
sound
asleep
and
did
not
dream
that
anybody
was
talking
about
him
.
"
The
Government
is
very
severe
upon
that
kind
of
offence
.
It
takes
particular
care
that
the
religious
customs
of
the
Indians
should
be
respected
,
and
if
your
servant
were
caught
--
"
"
Very
well
,
Sir
Francis
,
"
replied
Mr.
Fogg
;
"
if
he
had
been
caught
he
would
have
been
condemned
and
punished
,
and
then
would
have
quietly
returned
to
Europe
.
I
do
n't
see
how
this
affair
could
have
delayed
his
master
.
"
The
conversation
fell
again
.
During
the
night
the
train
left
the
mountains
behind
,
and
passed
Nassik
,
and
the
next
day
proceeded
over
the
flat
,
well-cultivated
country
of
the
Khandeish
,
with
its
straggling
villages
,
above
which
rose
the
minarets
of
the
pagodas
.
This
fertile
territory
is
watered
by
numerous
small
rivers
and
limpid
streams
,
mostly
tributaries
of
the
Godavery
.
Passepartout
,
on
waking
and
looking
out
,
could
not
realise
that
he
was
actually
crossing
India
in
a
railway
train
.
The
locomotive
,
guided
by
an
English
engineer
and
fed
with
English
coal
,
threw
out
its
smoke
upon
cotton
,
coffee
,
nutmeg
,
clove
,
and
pepper
plantations
,
while
the
steam
curled
in
spirals
around
groups
of
palm-trees
,
in
the
midst
of
which
were
seen
picturesque
bungalows
,
viharis
(
sort
of
abandoned
monasteries
)
,
and
marvellous
temples
enriched
by
the
exhaustless
ornamentation
of
Indian
architecture
.
Then
they
came
upon
vast
tracts
extending
to
the
horizon
,
with
jungles
inhabited
by
snakes
and
tigers
,
which
fled
at
the
noise
of
the
train
;
succeeded
by
forests
penetrated
by
the
railway
,
and
still
haunted
by
elephants
which
,
with
pensive
eyes
,
gazed
at
the
train
as
it
passed
.
The
travellers
crossed
,
beyond
Milligaum
,
the
fatal
country
so
often
stained
with
blood
by
the
sectaries
of
the
goddess
Kali
.
Not
far
off
rose
Ellora
,
with
its
graceful
pagodas
,
and
the
famous
Aurungabad
,
capital
of
the
ferocious
Aureng-Zeb
,
now
the
chief
town
of
one
of
the
detached
provinces
of
the
kingdom
of
the
Nizam
.
It
was
thereabouts
that
Feringhea
,
the
Thuggee
chief
,
king
of
the
stranglers
,
held
his
sway
.
These
ruffians
,
united
by
a
secret
bond
,
strangled
victims
of
every
age
in
honour
of
the
goddess
Death
,
without
ever
shedding
blood
;
there
was
a
period
when
this
part
of
the
country
could
scarcely
be
travelled
over
without
corpses
being
found
in
every
direction
.
The
English
Government
has
succeeded
in
greatly
diminishing
these
murders
,
though
the
Thuggees
still
exist
,
and
pursue
the
exercise
of
their
horrible
rites
.
At
half-past
twelve
the
train
stopped
at
Burhampoor
where
Passepartout
was
able
to
purchase
some
Indian
slippers
,
ornamented
with
false
pearls
,
in
which
,
with
evident
vanity
,
he
proceeded
to
encase
his
feet
.
The
travellers
made
a
hasty
breakfast
and
started
off
for
Assurghur
,
after
skirting
for
a
little
the
banks
of
the
small
river
Tapty
,
which
empties
into
the
Gulf
of
Cambray
,
near
Surat
.
Passepartout
was
now
plunged
into
absorbing
reverie
.
Up
to
his
arrival
at
Bombay
,
he
had
entertained
hopes
that
their
journey
would
end
there
;
but
,
now
that
they
were
plainly
whirling
across
India
at
full
speed
,
a
sudden
change
had
come
over
the
spirit
of
his
dreams
.
His
old
vagabond
nature
returned
to
him
;
the
fantastic
ideas
of
his
youth
once
more
took
possession
of
him
.
He
came
to
regard
his
master
's
project
as
intended
in
good
earnest
,
believed
in
the
reality
of
the
bet
,
and
therefore
in
the
tour
of
the
world
and
the
necessity
of
making
it
without
fail
within
the
designated
period
.
Already
he
began
to
worry
about
possible
delays
,
and
accidents
which
might
happen
on
the
way
.
He
recognised
himself
as
being
personally
interested
in
the
wager
,
and
trembled
at
the
thought
that
he
might
have
been
the
means
of
losing
it
by
his
unpardonable
folly
of
the
night
before
.
Being
much
less
cool-headed
than
Mr.
Fogg
,
he
was
much
more
restless
,
counting
and
recounting
the
days
passed
over
,
uttering
maledictions
when
the
train
stopped
,
and
accusing
it
of
sluggishness
,
and
mentally
blaming
Mr.
Fogg
for
not
having
bribed
the
engineer
.
The
worthy
fellow
was
ignorant
that
,
while
it
was
possible
by
such
means
to
hasten
the
rate
of
a
steamer
,
it
could
not
be
done
on
the
railway
.
The
train
entered
the
defiles
of
the
Sutpour
Mountains
,
which
separate
the
Khandeish
from
Bundelcund
,
towards
evening
.
The
next
day
Sir
Francis
Cromarty
asked
Passepartout
what
time
it
was
;
to
which
,
on
consulting
his
watch
,
he
replied
that
it
was
three
in
the
morning
.
This
famous
timepiece
,
always
regulated
on
the
Greenwich
meridian
,
which
was
now
some
seventy-seven
degrees
westward
,
was
at
least
four
hours
slow
.
Sir
Francis
corrected
Passepartout
's
time
,
whereupon
the
latter
made
the
same
remark
that
he
had
done
to
Fix
;
and
upon
the
general
insisting
that
the
watch
should
be
regulated
in
each
new
meridian
,
since
he
was
constantly
going
eastward
,
that
is
in
the
face
of
the
sun
,
and
therefore
the
days
were
shorter
by
four
minutes
for
each
degree
gone
over
,
Passepartout
obstinately
refused
to
alter
his
watch
,
which
he
kept
at
London
time
.
It
was
an
innocent
delusion
which
could
harm
no
one
.
The
train
stopped
,
at
eight
o'clock
,
in
the
midst
of
a
glade
some
fifteen
miles
beyond
Rothal
,
where
there
were
several
bungalows
,
and
workmen
's
cabins
.
The
conductor
,
passing
along
the
carriages
,
shouted
,
"
Passengers
will
get
out
here
!
"
