Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis his design of
going round the world, nor the circumstances under which he set
out; and the general only saw in the wager a useless eccentricity
and a lack of sound common sense.
In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave
the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.
An hour after leaving Bombay the train had passed the viaducts and
the Island of Salcette, and had got into the open country. At
Callyan they reached the junction of the branch line which descends
towards south-eastern India by Kandallah and Pounah; and, passing
Pauwell, they entered the defiles of the mountains, with their
basalt bases, and their summits crowned with thick and verdant
forests.