Around the World in 80 Days - 6

by Jules Verne in English Adventure Stories

CHAPTER 6 IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCE T he circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about Phileas Fogg was sent were as follows: The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, built ...Read Moreiron, of two thousand eight hundred tons burden, and five hundred horse-power, was due at eleven o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez. The Mongolia plied regularly between Brindisi and Bombay via the Suez Canal, and was one of the fastest steamers belonging to the company, always making more than ten knots an hour between Brindisi and Read Less