Part 18 (1/2)
”No, for a voyage”
”A voyage?”
”Yes, will you agree to take , opened his eyes wide, and said, ”Is your honor joking?”
”No I have et to Yokohama by the 14th at the latest, to take the boat for San Francisco
”I am sorry,” said the sailor, ”but it is impossible”
”I offer you a hundred pounds per day, and an additional reward of two hundred pounds if I reach Yokohama in time”
”Are you in earnest?”
”Very azed out to sea, evidently struggling between the anxiety to gain a large su so far Fix was inturned to Aouda and asked her, ”You would not be afraid, would you, ,” was her answer The pilot now returned, shuffling his hat in his hands
”Well, pilot?” said Mr Fogg
”Well, your honor,” replied he, ”I could not risk myself,a voyage at this time of year Besides, we could not reach Yokohama in ti”
”Only sixteen hundred,” said Mr Fogg
”It's the sa”
Fix breathed ed another way” Fix ceased to breathe at all
”How?” asked Mr Fogg
”By going to Nagasaki, at the extreht hundred hai we should not be forced to sail wide of the Chinese coast, which would be a great advantage, as the currents run northward, and would aid us”
”Pilot,” said Mr Fogg, ”I hai or Nagasaki”
”Why not?” returned the pilot ”The San Francisco steamer does not start froasaki, but it starts frohai”
”You are sure of that?”
”Perfectly”
”And when does the boat leave Shanghai?”
”On the 11th, at seven in the evening We have, therefore, four days before us, that is ninety-six hours; and in that tiood luck and a southind, and the sea was calhai”