Go jetters around the world in 80 days update#

During the winter, when the trains are blocked up by the snow, these sledges make extremely rapid journeys across the frozen plains from one station to another. It was, in short, a sledge rigged like a sloop. Behind, a sort of rudder served to guide the vehicle. This mast held an iron stay upon which to hoist a jib–sail.

A high mast was fixed on the frame, held firmly by metallic lashings, to which was attached a large brigantine sail. Fogg examined a curious vehicle, a kind of frame on two long beams, a little raised in front like the runners of a sledge, and upon which there was room for five or six persons. Fogg and the American, whose name was Mudge, entered a hut built just below the fort. Phileas Fogg did not reply at once but Fix, having pointed out the man, who was walking up and down in front of the station, Mr. It was the man who had spoken to Fix during the night, and whose offer he had refused. 'Good! you are therefore twenty hours behind. 'Yes with eleven hours to spare before the steamer left.' 'And, if your journey had not been interrupted by these Indians, you would have reached New York on the morning of the 11th?' 'Is it absolutely necessary that you should be in New York on the 11th, before nine o'clock in the evening, the time that the steamer leaves for Liverpool?' 'I have a purpose in asking,' resumed Fix. 'Seriously, sir, are you in great haste?' Fogg, and, looking him intently in the face, said: He had ruined his master!Īt this moment the detective approached Mr. Passepartout, the involuntary cause of this delay, was desperate. Phileas Fogg found himself twenty hours behind time.

Go jetters around the world in 80 days update#

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