Episode 7: To 'the Wild West'
It was seven in the morning when Mr Fogg, Aouda and Passepartout stepped off the
-General Grant onto the land of America.'Sir, I have heard that Sioux Indians have already attacked some trains this winter, said Passepartout to Mr Fogg, do you want me to buy some guns to take with us on the train?'It was snowing a lot, but the train still travelled easily over the Sierra Nevada mountains and through the state of Utah and into Wyoming.Mr Fogg gave Passepartout some money for the guns, and then he went with Aouda to see the Californian capital.Passepartout looked out of the window and saw that a lot of Sioux Indians were attacking the train!I will go. Passepartout first climbed out of the carriage and then secretly climbed under the other carriages towards the front of the train.When everything was calmer the soldiers counted everyone on the train and realised that the brave Frenchman and two others were gone.'I will find him, dead or alive, Phileas Fogg said quietly to Aouda.This trip usually took seven days and so Phileas Fogg planned to be in New York to catch a ship across the Atlantic Ocean on 11th December.The passengers ate and slept on the train and Mr Fogg and Aouda played cards to pass the time.Aouda was braver than the other women and shot at the Indians through the broken windows.'We will stop it, said Phileas Fogg, but Passepartout pushed past him towards the front of their carriage and said, 'Stay here, Sir.Mr Fogg politely invited Mr Fix to come and look round the city with them.In the afternoon they returned to the hotel to meet Passepartout and then all four of them went to the railway station together.He seemed amazed to see them and said, What?