Get Chapter 5 - Jufiles

Detective Fix from the Metropolitan Police stands with the British consul on the dock in Suez in Egypt. Fix is waiting for the steamship Mongolia to arrive from Brandisi, assuming Phileas Fogg is on the steamer. Fix is convinced Phileas Fogg is the gentleman bank robber who is using the wager as a means of escape.

On the 1863 novel that predicted the Internet, cars, skyscrapers, and electronic dance music. Today we're celebrating the 194th birthday of Jules Verne—novelist, poet, playwright, and, as it turns out, seer.

The detective passed down the quay, and made his way to the consul's office. He told the Consul that he thought that the robber was on the Mongolia. The consul said that the robber might not come to the consulate, as it was not necessary to get the passport countersigned.

Summary: Chapter 5: England Bets on Fogg Special “Phileas Fogg bonds” are created for the public to formally place their wagers. Most people believe that Fogg will lose the bet and that he has been conned by his friends at the Reform Club.

Chapter 5. The crew meets another ship, and that captain asks for Ned Lands help in slaughtering a whale. Everyone is impressed and believes that if they encounter the monster, Ned Land will defeat it. They are all wound up, and anything they see in the ocean makes them think it is the monster.

Detective Fix finds Passepartout and gets him talking. Passepartout tells Fix that he and his master are going on a super-fast journey and that he never gets a minute to stop and see the sights. Passepartout accepts the detective's offer to help him find some shirts and shoes for himself and his master.

Lord Albemarle, an elderly paralytic gentleman, was now the only advocate of Phileas Fogg left. This noble lord, who was fastened to his chair, would have given his fortune to be able to make the tour of the world, if it took ten years; and he bet five thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.

Lesson Summary Jules Verne was a French writer who specialized in writing science fiction stories. He is sometimes credited with creating the genre. Throughout his life, Verne maintained a fascination with travel and transportation; these themes appear in most of his works.