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Around the World in 80 Days

CHAPTER XXXI
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You must regain eight hours.

Do you wish to try to do so ?" "On foot ?" asked Mr.Fogg.
"No; on a sledge," replied Fix.

"On a sledge with sails.

A man has proposed such a method to me." It was the man who had spoken to Fix during the night, and whose offer he had refused.
Phileas Fogg did not reply at once; but Fix, having pointed out the man, who was walking up and down in front of the station, Mr.Fogg went up to him.

An instant after, Mr.Fogg and the American, whose name was Mudge, entered a hut built just below the fort.
There Mr.Fogg examined a curious vehicle, a kind of frame on two long beams, a little raised in front like the runners of a sledge, and upon which there was room for five or six persons.


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