LTDM80J Episode 04:
Calcutta to Shanghai (Via Singapore, Hong Kong)
Thirty-five days after leaving London, Phileas Fogg travels according to his schedule, about twenty four hours behindhand. As Jules Verne writes, Phileas Fogg was passing methodically in his orbit around the world, regardless of the lesser stars which gravitated around him. Earth and sea had seemed to be at his service; steamers and railways obeyed him; wind and steam united to speed his journey. Had the hour of adversity come?
— “The Rangoon - one of the Peninsular 12 and Oriental Company's boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas— was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of four hundred horse-power.”
— “The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favorable weather and propitious winds,and they soon came in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high, looming above the waters.”
— “The Rangoon - one of the Peninsular 12 and Oriental Company's boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas— was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of four hundred horse-power.”
— “The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favorable weather and propitious winds,and they soon came in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high, looming above the waters.”
— “They soon came in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high, looming above the waters.”
— “Vast forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teak-wood, of the gigantic mimosa, and tree-like ferns covered the foreground, while behind, the graceful outlines of the mountains were traced against the sky.”
— “Reached Singapore”
— “Left Singapore”
— “He was passing methodically in his orbit around the world, regardless of the lesser stars which gravitated around him. Yet there was near by what the astronomers would call a disturbing star, which might have produced an agitation in this gentleman's heart. But no! the charms of Aouda failed to act,[…] and the disturbances, if they existed, would have been more difficult to calculate than those of Uranus, which led to the discovery of Neptune.”
— “Vast forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teak-wood, of the gigantic mimosa, and tree-like ferns covered the foreground, while behind, the graceful outlines of the mountains were traced against the sky.”
— “Reached Singapore”
— “Left Singapore”
— “He was passing methodically in his orbit around the world, regardless of the lesser stars which gravitated around him. Yet there was near by what the astronomers would call a disturbing star, which might have produced an agitation in this gentleman's heart. But no! the charms of Aouda failed to act,[…] and the disturbances, if they existed, would have been more difficult to calculate than those of Uranus, which led to the discovery of Neptune.”
— “Reached Hong-Kong”
— ”The Tankadere entered the Straits of Fo-Kien which separate the island of Formosa from the Chinese coast, in the small hours of the night, and crossed the Tropic of Cancer. The sea was very rough in the straits, full of eddies formed by the counter currents.”
— ”The wind grew decidedly more calm,and happily the sea fell with it. All sails were hoisted, and at noon the Tankadere was within forty-five miles of Shanghai. There remained yet six hours in which to accomplish that distance.”
— ”The Tankadere entered the Straits of Fo-Kien which separate the island of Formosa from the Chinese coast, in the small hours of the night, and crossed the Tropic of Cancer. The sea was very rough in the straits, full of eddies formed by the counter currents.”
— ”The wind grew decidedly more calm,and happily the sea fell with it. All sails were hoisted, and at noon the Tankadere was within forty-five miles of Shanghai. There remained yet six hours in which to accomplish that distance.”
