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Hoe eindigde het avontuur zal worden gezien anon. Aouda was angstig, hoewel ze zei niets. Wat Passepartout, dacht dat hij de heer. Fogg's manoeuvre gewoon glorieuze. De kapitein had gezegd “tussen elf en twaalf knopen,”En de Henrietta bevestigde zijn voorspelling.

If, then—for there were “ifs” still—the sea did not become too boisterous, if the wind did not veer round to the east, if no accident happened to the boat or its machinery, the Henrietta might cross the three thousand miles from New York to Liverpool in the nine days, between the 12th and the 21st of December. It is true that, once arrived, the affair on board the Henrietta, added to that of the Bank of England, might create more difficulties for Mr. Fogg than he imagined or could desire.

Tijdens de eerste dagen, zij gingen langs vlot genoeg. De zee was niet erg ongunstig, de wind leek stationaire in het noord-oosten, the sails were hoisted, and the Henrietta ploughed across the waves like a real trans-Atlantic steamer.