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Chapter 12

           Thenightwascold.TheParseelitafireinthebungalowwithafewdrybranches,andthewarmthwasverygrateful,provisionspurchasedatKholbysufficedforsupper,andthetravellersateravenously. Theconversation,beginningwithafewdisconnectedphrases,soongaveplacetoloudandsteadysnores. TheguidewatchedKiouni,whosleptstanding,bolsteringhimselfagainstthetrunkofalargetree. Nothingoccurredduringthenighttodisturbtheslumberers,althoughoccasionalgrowlsfrontpanthersandchatteringsofmonkeysbrokethesilence;themoreformidablebeastsmadenocriesorhostiledemonstrationagainsttheoccupantsofthebungalow. SirFrancissleptheavily,likeanhonestsoldierovercomewithfatigue.Passepartoutwaswrappedinuneasydreamsofthebouncingofthedaybefore. AsforMr.Fogg,heslumberedaspeacefullyasifhehadbeeninhisserenemansioninSavilleRow. 

           Thejourneywasresumedatsixinthemorning;theguidehopedtoreachAllahabadbyevening.Inthatcase,Mr.Foggwouldonlyloseapartoftheforty-eighthourssavedsincethebeginningofthetour. Kiouni,resuminghisrapidgait,soondescendedthelowerspursoftheVindhias,andtowardsnoontheypassedbythevillageofKallenger,ontheCani,oneofthebranchesoftheGanges. Theguideavoidedinhabitedplaces,thinkingitsafertokeeptheopencountry,whichliesalongthefirstdepressionsofthebasinofthegreatriver. Allahabadwasnowonlytwelvemilestothenorth-east. Theystoppedunderaclumpofbananas,thefruitofwhich,ashealthyasbreadandassucculentascream,wasamplypartakenofandappreciated. 

           Attwoo’clocktheguideenteredathickforestwhichextendedseveralmiles;hepreferredtotravelundercoverofthewoods. Theyhadnotasyethadanyunpleasantencounters,andthejourneyseemedonthepointofbeingsuccessfullyaccomplished,whentheelephant,becomingrestless,suddenlystopped. 

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