. Around the world in eighty days. d being often em-ployed by those who train the Indian elephants for battle^Happily, however, for Mr. Fogg, the animals instructionin this direction had not gone far, and the elephant stillpreserved his natural gentleness. Kiouni—this was thename of the beast—could doubtless travel rapidly for along time, and, in default of any other means of convey-ance, Mr. Fogg resolved to hire him. But elephants arefar from cheap in India, where they are becoming scarce ;the males, which alone are suitable for circus shows,are much sought, especially as but few of them are
. Around the world in eighty days. d being often em-ployed by those who train the Indian elephants for battle^Happily, however, for Mr. Fogg, the animals instructionin this direction had not gone far, and the elephant stillpreserved his natural gentleness. Kiouni—this was thename of the beast—could doubtless travel rapidly for along time, and, in default of any other means of convey-ance, Mr. Fogg resolved to hire him. But elephants arefar from cheap in India, where they are becoming scarce ;the males, which alone are suitable for circus shows,are much sought, especially as but few of them aredomesticated. When, therefore, Mr. Fogg proposed to*the Indian to hire Kiouni, he refused point-blank. persisted, offering the excessive sum of ten poundsan hour for the loan of the beast to Allahabad. pounds t Refused also. Forty pounds .* Stillrefused. Passepartout jumped at each advance; but theIndian declined to be tempted. Yet the offer was analluring one, for, supposing it took the elephant fifteea. THEKS THEY FOUND THEMSELVES IN THE PEESENCE OE AN ANIMAL. [Page 7G. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. JJ hours to reach Allahabad, his owner would receive no lessthan six hundred pounds sterling. Phileas Fogg, without getting in the least flurried, thenproposed to purchase the animal outright, and at firstoffered a thousand pounds for him. The Indian, perhapsthinking he was going to make a great bargain, stillrefused. Sir Francis Cromarty took Mr. Fogg aside, and beggedhim to reflect before he went any further; to which thatgentleman replied that he was not in the habit of actingrashly, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds was at stake,that the elephant was absolutely necessary to him, andthat he would secure him if he had to pay twenty timeshis value. Returning to the Indian, whose small, sharpeyes, glistening with avarice, betrayed that with him it wasonly a question of how great a price he could obtain, offered first twelve hundred, then fi
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