intro: the story: "going around the world in 80 days" seemd amazing... but only a hundred 50 years ago in year 1870. this is a summary of story with additions to make the story attractive and less illogical. many words will be spelld SAME AS SOUND
however considering the digging of two canals, the trip seems boring. a boat from london, to southwest around spain, to nile river and thru the CANAL of suez... or better yet... a hot balloon over france and train to marse, not around spain, then from marse, steam ship thru suez canal.
then southward to australia. kuz india coast and malaya peninsula extend south that boats must go around. thru canal of panama in 1914, there kuz less length to dig. the only excitement would be storms at sea. or sea monsters.
before 1914 cant use canal and still there kuz cross narrow land seems faster than across u.s .
to make the story intresting the author imagined that the primitive "indians" and indians were savages. thoe exciting still in terms of the trip, that is stupid kuz smarter in steam-ship not on land by train and worse considering the malaya peninsula would add time round. if goal is win a bet and come quikly then stupid plan "ship to hong kong" that is around mlp and north from flpin isles.
a smart plan route from suez south and along north ej of australia. then ride animal across land by narrow panama even before dug canal. also to make a strait line to marse better than ship would be a hot balloon and train as above.
also the start of the book is "very slow" many words with no events nor attractions. almost nothing to grab your attention, and even the kid version had very much talking so i summarize the "events".
title: my summary of 80 days and adding a "attracter":
chapter one the bet
in my year 2020, if we wanted to travel around globe, london to london, we can cheat and fly in a jet from london northeast to murmansk [for details see endnote] around axis bak to london... in less than one day. kuz the plan and wager did not obligate going around the longest route centerd between the axes. the book did not send him around the fattest part longest distance. or...
even nearer the fat part of sphere, fly in a jet from london to hong kong to l.a to london in just forty hours [see endnote] less than two days and half of 80... hours.
still, before fast jets, and before the canal was dug in panama, a trip around the globe in less than three months was incredibly amazing short time. some would say unbelievably impossible.
therefore when in the year 1870, the canal named suez was functioning and a man claimd he could use it to travel around the globe in 80 days, that claim caused many people to debate so the argument was a conflict.
RODD ROZE sat in the elite club named the "cassil" near the river temz in britian. he wore a simple wristwatch with a brown leather wristband. the only numbers on its simple face were twelv, three, six and nine. he was constantly checking the time on his watch.
the elite club had fancy decorations and everybody wore fancy clothing or else they could not enter the club.
that fateful day in the start of autmn, in the month SEPTember, roze saw the first violator arguing with the doorman. a cop heard and led the simply dresd fellow away. the guy punchd the cop but the cop was traind and easily knockd down the puncher and tied his hands.
roze shook his head at the horrible world around him. luckily he saw from a safe distance.
rodd sat at a table with three strangers. they were gambling in a card game named "rummy". the game was very quiet as each man focusd on his cards and tryd to assemble a group to win the gambling money.
rodd felt nervous at the silence and talked about the change in travel. now that they dug the canal by suez, a boat can pass thru the canal from italy to yemen. a man with blond hair askd "before that, a person could also sail from here south and around the nile continent near the orinj river region and also come to yemen", as he rubbed his shaved chin with his left hand.
rodd explaind that the time would now be much less kuz less distance. time is so precious that it cannot be purchased once it passed. he added that he was certain that he could use the canal to go around the globe in less than three months.
as they continued the card game, enriq eavz said, as he smoothd his dark brown hair, "that depends if... you travel without interruptions you can estimate the travel time and distance, however so many problems can occur sailing or steam engines of ships or trains that you will be delayd and cannot calculate how many months." rodd replied that he was willing to personally travel and show that he could in less than 3 months.
the blond guy, named liam lin, offerd a gamble: "we are all gamblers so lets wager that in three months he will be too delayd to return here."
the man with dark black hair, named ian iwamoto lay his cards on the table and announced that his religion forbids him to gamble. he should not even gamble for cards but only play cards without gambling. ian added that he thout rodd could use the canal and succeed in less than three months even traveling on land across u.s, then roze said "going across the narrow part of america would be quicker, yet still for the wager sake i will bet ten thousand british pounds that i can go around using the new railroads in u.s in eighty days... from now! he said this as he lay his set of cards on the table. the others showd their cards and the winner collected the gambling money.
the group shook hands on the agreement and immediately rodd hurried out from the elite club.
before he enterd a carriage, puld by two horses, he heard loud shouting, an angry argument about slavery in america. he watched as one guy kikd the other's leg, who then wrestled him. he was glad that he was in the elite club separate and far from the violent people. the horses puld his car to his home, as the coach-driver whipd the horses.
rodd enterd his home and politely requested that his butler, named tod toczi, would pack his small leather case with clothing. the aid did and offerd to stay and gard the home but rodd insisted that he needed an aid. the aid furiously argued that he would not travel such a dangerous adventure !!
rodd calmd him and assured him that travel was not dangerous anymore so they left and rented a car to the hot air balloon.
roze hired the hot balloon to take himself and his aid from that city, named temztown, southeast across the channel to the railway in france.
that night they floated across the channel into france.
the balloon came down near the train station and only a few hours remaind until the early morning train would bring milk to the citys.
the patrolman at the train station was suspicous that somebody flew there at night and chekd the news reports from britian. he read that a "bank was robd" in london that day and felt "a hunch" that this was the theif trying to escape with his money by night and travel far away.
he ran to the telephone and reported the strange and suspicious night arrival to his captain. the captain did not believe this was the same person, adding the balloon was probably from a french city.
the patrolman named cy cingil was so certain, that he left his post and went to question the travelers.
cy pretended he had a british accent and asked where they were traveling. rodd replied that they were traveling by train to marse. cy acted surprised that they were going to the same place that he was going. cy offerd to help buy tickets together and would exchange money for french money. rodd had french money so he paid for the tickets and they sat to chat until the train arrived.
next large metal casks labeld milk in french words, were loaded onto the train and it sped by steam engine along the rails. the two brits slept in the train and by the time they awoke the train had arrived in marse port of south france. the war with prussia did not bother them on that side of france althoe the aid bout a book and read about the violent battles.
cy cald his boss and begd for approval to arrest the bank robber and bring him to a judge. the captain refused by saying they had no evidence. cy lost his temper and argued about justice and saying his boss helpd crime and they had a huge arguing conflict until cy quit his job. cy was so angry that he puld off his uniform jacket and stretched it with a yell until it ripd. he wanted to punch his boss but knew that violence and inflicting pain was evil so he must not hurt any person.
from the french train the steamboat took them by sea on a smooth and uneventful trip. on the ship rodd met strangers and gambled with them in the card game rummy. he was lucky and won. the aid redd about the violent battles between france and prussia. finally a few days later the boat came to the northeast coast of the nile continent. the port was near the long river named nile.
the brits switched to a ship bringing grain to australia becuase it would have less stops than a boat to india. the steam boat plowed thru the NEWLY dug suez canal and southeast toward australia carrying dry goods such as rice wheat and flour.
cy tried to convince roze to travel to the port named bombay but rodd explained he was rushing around the world and did not have time for many port stops. he added that it would add time to go around the malaya peninsula. time was always very precious and especily now when the wager depended on time.
cy said "if you want something precious then you can go to india where the indians burn the widow with her dead husband... and save a life." rodd said his time was limited but cy insisted human life was very precious. so rodd said the women would protest. cy explaind that the woman believs in that faith and will not resist the flaming fire and they probably drug the widow too. rodd replyd that he did not believe that primitives still did that custom, adding "after all it was already modernized 1870 and now even america modernized and stopd bad slavery."
a few nights later strong winds from a sstorm with heavy rain tosd the ship. they had a difficult night in the storm.
sadly one of the crew fell over board from the tilting ship and slippery deck. the captain was certain that the sailor drowned to death in the storm and they had a prayer service to honor the seriousness of human death.
sailors of varying religions wore many different styles of clothing to the ceremony. hindu priests said their prayer and christians said their prayer. roze was quiet and after the ceremony confided to his aid that all that prayer and ceremony had no effects and a "moment of silence" for the seriousness of death would have been more meaningful than many prayers of competing religions.
tod was surprised and said that as a christian he must say prayers when somebody died. rodd simply shrugd but announced this would be the last gambling he would ever do in his life.
then for the first time in his life he offered his aid to play cards without gambling. the aid was puzzled and baffled. "i never said that gambling was a sin" but rodd said that he made his commitment and anyway should not gamble with his own worker employee even if he hadnt committed to stop gambling.
the aid offered a toast of alcohol to honor the death of the sailor.
when roze refused the alcohol, an argument erupted.
the aid shouted, "this is for honoring the dead why wont you honor the dead." rodd roard back "i dont have to do anything you say". the argument became personal as tod yeld back "this is not my command it is for decency to respect death, you silly islamist", he cald his employer that kuz islamists teach that drinking wine or alcohol is a sin.
to his surprise, rodd burst out laffing. "did you just call me islam? hahaha"
tods eyes opend wide as he regretted his accusation and also shook in horror at his boss surprising response. "i am the farthest from any religion certainly i would never try to fast and not eat for an entire month". the laughter calmd the argument and rod apologized for not respecting his boss. after all he would drink TWO cups of wine.
good winds led them to the coast of australia sooner than the schedule and soon the ship arrived at the port city darwin.
the ship emptied its cargo and loaded food to return to the suez canal. they bout tickets for a steamboat traveling to america.
while they waited for the ship the aid talkd about people riding elephants t travel in india. there was danger of wild tribes. roze argued that nowadays there were no wild tribes in india. "you know that i am right thats the reason you avoided india" argued the aid. but rodd softly explained that a ship must sail south around the malaya peninsula and near australia anyway, so better a line than two sides of a triangle.
at the port a married couple needed money for tickets to los angeles. roze had enuf so he offerd to buy the wifes colorfully gemd ring with two briit diamonds each surrounded by a circle of red green and blue gems. they went to a gem dealer who said the gems were worth lots and as a ring worth 2000 british pounds. roze admitted he intended to pay 2500 and gave the paper money to the young couple. she had dark skin and said she was born in india.
while they waited together for the boat from darwin australia to los angeles america, she told her story thar she was obligated to marry a man from the same low caste she was born in.
this american tourist named gavvin genzel saw her crying at her pas bean shop. he askd why she was crying and spent his money for the extra ticket that he had not pland. instead of returning to america passing japan, he bout to shorter trips to sail from india to australia. the ring had been in her mas room kuz it was too precious to wear so when ma was away she "took her inheritance early" and left with gavvin. her name was now mrs. genzel. he also bout her western style dress so they thout she came from america with him. he also wed her at the consulate so she had american papers.
roze praisd gav for rescuing the lady from india. the genzels bout tickets and when the company realized there were many passengers it rerouted a ship from kapuas isle, the largest one in that ocean and that had the kapuas river, to change route and go to darwin to get the passengers. this benefitted roze in a way he had never expected.
tod the aid wanted to show he was right. while they sat at the dock, he asked the lady "what happens to a widow when her man died". she said that in the past certain tribes would burn the dead man with his widow, until a few years ago a budhist priest that was protecting the corpse wore the corpses clothing... so peple were scared that he returnd to life and fled screaming. then he saved the lady and taut that this ceremony was never truly requird ever. so the followers stopd that ceremony and only burnt the dead man.
roze commented on the story that a woman should not see a man switch clothing.
gail, for that was her new american name, assured him, that seeing a man change clothing did not cause women sinful thouts.
roze changed topic and said he pland to cross america by train. gav said if they went north to his city they could cross on a "wind sled over snow" with less stops than a train. roze calculated that he was right and they decided to travel together.
before they could enter the boat, a cop came to the dock, and arrested roze. roze demanded the accusation. cop said robd bank in london and the cop ignord his denial kuz all criminals deny. at the station the cop lokd roze in a cell. then he invited the aid to drink beer with him to celebrate justice.
they wawkd to a pub and tod sat. the american sent his wife, gail to get a judge to release his new frend so they would not miss the ship. he followd the cop to the pub named "purple pub."
the cop went to the cash box and payd for two cups beer. gav sat near the wall in the corner far from the door. he watched the server fill two cups and put on tray to bring to the table... but the cop acted strange and insisted he would carry it himself. this grabd the americans attention.
the cop put the tray on the wooden counter and reached into his jacket pocket. he pulled a white envelope and pourd wiit powder into one cup. the american reached into HIS jacket pocket and puld a revolver ! BANG BANG two bullets flew along the side of the counter and slamd into the chest and belly of the cop.
the cop toppld forward spilling the beers but the envelope was in his hand.
gav ran to the corpse and waved the envelope saying "look he tried to poison my frend." then he grabd tods wrist and hurried to the police station.
meanwhile gail had convinced the judge of the emergency and he took a break from his office to come to the jail.
they all met in the prison room. gav explaind that the cop arrested roze for a burglary in london but he was from a different city.
the judge replyd "now calm down nobody needs to prove that they are innocent." the judge askd the cop why roze got arrested. this cop said he got a telegram from the police in london to arrest roze. the judge then askd if he verifyd the message.
the cop had not. so he decreed as judge that cops could not arrest a man based on a telegram message alone. roze said "probably liam lin sent it so that he would win the bet. still i am willing to deposit money that i will return to britian and face judge there. but you must send the money when i keep my word." the judge said "that is cald bail" and wrote the document.
then the cops releasd roze and thanks to gail they all reachd the boat in time for entering the ship.
the steam ship rushd through the huge sea. one day later a messenger came to roze with a message from the judge. they had contacted london police who denied sending an arrest message. they had contacted the telegraph office and heard that the name of the sender was "enriq eavz" not the police. furthermore the cop that died in the purple pub was only in a costume of a cop but his name was the one that roze had mentiond... none other than 'liam lin." !! now tod understood the real reason he wanted to "celebrate" for himself and even poison him.
a few days pasd as the ship traveld northeast... until a voice shouted "sea monster". a tourist holding lenses cald binoculars [that is latin meaning "for two eyes"] pointed and cald everybody to see. a sailor looked thru the lense and said "that is merely the arm of a common squid".
as the crowd dispersed the man shouted again "the sea monster is breaking a ship". this interested roze who grabbed the binocular and saw a large warship probably a cruiser 600 feet long, with a relatively large squid arm wrapped up its side. the ship was not wood but grey metal which he had never seen on ship before. it had large numbers painted in white paint "CA-47". relative to that distant ship the arm must be over twenty feet across the width of the long arm !! that was no common squid. he could not believe his own eyes as the arm tipd the boat forward and the front went down and puld under water. the long aft rose until the sides bent... wood does not do that... and square grey plates fell apart like crumbs as the ship snapd in half. yes that was a sea monster.
he ran to the captain to change direction so the sea monster would not attk this boat too. the captin would not believe roze but the tourist with binoculars was a second witness. since they saw the squid southeast they turnd due north directly north to get away from the siit of the squid.
that niit roze could not sleep as he saw the horror of a giant squid pulling the ship under water.
he heard creaking sounds and thout the squid was attacking this wooden ship now.
as he ran to the deck of the boat he saw a dark patch blocking the many stars in the sky. on either side were many stars but not along this long wide dark patch, that hid more and more stars and then he saw in the light from the ship... it was a giant wide arm of a sea squid so much larger than any squid it was monstrous size.
as the arm wrapped around the front of the ship roze panikd... he saw thsi boat tipping forward and pulled under water and the wood would all crack even if he could float on broken wood he would lose the wager.
in desperation he grabd one of the ships lamps and ran to the kitchen where he grabbed 2 bottles of rum. the lamp swung from his teeth. as the arm squeezd the wood and the wood began to crack he held the lamp from its wire handle in his teeth and pourd two bottles of rum along the arm of the squid.for ten meters long across the width of the ship called "beam", then he broke the lamp and held the flame near the wet rum. the alcohol burnt and the flame of fire spread all along the arm. a line of flame roard ten meters long across the width of the arm and a huge patch of arm burnt kuz the rum had coverd downward too. the tentacle straightend and rose into the sky... all the sailors were witness as the long arm burnt briit and puld back into the sea. the sailors saw that the fence of the rail was damaged but the sides were not broken. roze had saved the ship from a giant squid in time. as thoe the dream had warnd him in a a message from the gods.
he wonderd which gods had sent the message?
a week later a huge storm tossd the boat. giant waves crashed over the deck and the boat tipd and turnd in every direction for several hours. within minutes almost everybody had emptied their stomiks cald vomiting from the motion. even those common with the sea waves including roze who had often traveld by ship was dizzy and vomitted. the boat survived the ruff storm and a week later arrived at the coast of los angeles.
then they rode north to the city where gav lived and began the train ride across america. the train went uphills and down over flat plains. the train rode as scheduled until it stopd suddely quicly slowing. a group of bulls were on the rails and the driver prevented a crash. the delay cost the train and roze an hour but that day the snow began to fall. sooner than pland roze left the train and bout a sail sled to slide over the snow. he aimed the sail to catch the wind at verying angles and zipd quickly across the icy snow and plains along the route gav had mapd for him.
danger ! wolvs chased the sled but luckily the wind is common in winter so they slid faster than the chasing wolvs.
in a shorter time than pland and faster than a train he crosd the continent. by the end of november he was in the ship from new york to liverpool on the west of england instead of december 11. [later that boat left early and woulda needed a boat to france and back west].
in the newspaper tod the aid read that a train had been atakd by savages. as the train rode between trees some native savages had jumpd down on the roof and swung their axes killing many passengers. the few people with guns only succeeded at shooting a few of the killers before the axes cut them. more native savages ataksd the same train as it left the forest from horses riding alongside. they climbd in nd kild almost everybody in the train.
he suspected it was the train from san francisco and made the effort to check... that it was the train that roze woulda used, after exiting the boat, if not for his frend gav that had led them north instead.
enriq had wanted to win the bet, so strongly that he paid natives to atak the train and "take revenge" for traveling on their native land. so theorized tod but rodd argued that the natives were simply savages who did not respect the life of white people.
either way had they been in that train the axes certainly woulda kild them too.
at liverpool ian was already at the dock greeting them. "i told them you would succeed". roze argued that he had not completed the circle but ian explaind that the coast of england was near enuf and showd a newspaper that they were less than 80 days. roze shouted angrily that the newspaper was wrong and that he had counted the days... but the day of the week was one day diffrent. ian explaind that they had crossd the international date line so the name of the day was different than rodd expected. he handed the money that liam and enriq had deposited by him. did he arrive in december? 80 days after leaving in december? no he left in september.
with the prize money he invited ian and tod on another trip this time... around the fattest part of the sphere centerd between the axes. tod protested that traveling thru the jungles of the nile continent was too dangerous a tiger orlion could kill them and better to enjoy the prize money.
roze said i am so wealthy i will give all the money to you just stay in the house until i return.
this time roze traveld west. he went to buy a ticket westward but the ship had already left. instead he searchd for a mail ship to brazil. it would leave the following morning. that niit roze stayd and partyd with tod and ian without alcohol drinks. they playd gambling rummy but nobody needed to pay moey so they just counted points. that morning rodd left on the mail ship to brazil.
2 weeks later tod got a card from brazil on paper from a hotel in brazil. he read about the huge storm in the sea. after the storm roze urged the capain to go faster.when he refused rodd had paid a large sum for the ship and instructed to use all the coal quickly. the steam boiled hot and pushed the ship faster south. when the stars showed he was midway centerd between the axes cald equator then he turnd west and all the coal was used and finishd before they came to brazil kuz the trip was two sides of a triangle insted of the plan.
then roze had orderd the sailors to cut wood from the mail ship to fuel the steam engine. this made the boat lighter less mass so less fuel afterward. the wood was enuf to get to brazil along the equator line as he had wanted. despite the longer trip mor length, still, the mail was deliverd earlier than scheduled.
ian and tod lived in the house and waited for the date that rodd had said he would return. they even prepared a party and waited at the dock of liverpool but when the ship came rodd roze did not arrive.
sadly they went home and canceld the party. they waited for a week and proclaimd him dead but at least they inherited the home.
gav visited britian that summer and contacted tod. he his wife tod and ian were all reunited and had a happy visit. the end.
endnote: details regarding murmansk [that is a city just 30 degrees of sphere away from axis of spin, and 30 degrees of sphere east from london called 30east.] then fly
northeast along coast of novia-zamalya [between axis and coast of ural-continent by 50e longitude across 130w].
regarding the fat part, flying at 500 kilometer per hour... oops i mean flying high where the air is thin and less resistant around 900 kilometers per hour, as common now, from london to hong kong in around fifteen hours for just 500 british pound money. [change jet in dubai] with flight time 7 and 7 hours.
leaving at night from london flying 7 hours east arriving where that time is called morning and then seven more hours east when that time is called night and in britian same time cald noon ! then to los-angeles in 2 hours plus twelv hours, from there l.a directly to london in ten hours, for around 400 pound. total time just 40 hours less than two days ! or... better yet travel westward.
london to l.a as above ten hours jet-flight. in london cald morning but there not yet light. to h.k as above 14 hours to london 14 more seems better.
however considering the digging of two canals, the trip seems boring. a boat from london, to southwest around spain, to nile river and thru the CANAL of suez... or better yet... a hot balloon over france and train to marse, not around spain, then from marse, steam ship thru suez canal.
then southward to australia. kuz india coast and malaya peninsula extend south that boats must go around. thru canal of panama in 1914, there kuz less length to dig. the only excitement would be storms at sea. or sea monsters.
before 1914 cant use canal and still there kuz cross narrow land seems faster than across u.s .
to make the story intresting the author imagined that the primitive "indians" and indians were savages. thoe exciting still in terms of the trip, that is stupid kuz smarter in steam-ship not on land by train and worse considering the malaya peninsula would add time round. if goal is win a bet and come quikly then stupid plan "ship to hong kong" that is around mlp and north from flpin isles.
a smart plan route from suez south and along north ej of australia. then ride animal across land by narrow panama even before dug canal. also to make a strait line to marse better than ship would be a hot balloon and train as above.
also the start of the book is "very slow" many words with no events nor attractions. almost nothing to grab your attention, and even the kid version had very much talking so i summarize the "events".
title: my summary of 80 days and adding a "attracter":
chapter one the bet
in my year 2020, if we wanted to travel around globe, london to london, we can cheat and fly in a jet from london northeast to murmansk [for details see endnote] around axis bak to london... in less than one day. kuz the plan and wager did not obligate going around the longest route centerd between the axes. the book did not send him around the fattest part longest distance. or...
even nearer the fat part of sphere, fly in a jet from london to hong kong to l.a to london in just forty hours [see endnote] less than two days and half of 80... hours.
still, before fast jets, and before the canal was dug in panama, a trip around the globe in less than three months was incredibly amazing short time. some would say unbelievably impossible.
therefore when in the year 1870, the canal named suez was functioning and a man claimd he could use it to travel around the globe in 80 days, that claim caused many people to debate so the argument was a conflict.
RODD ROZE sat in the elite club named the "cassil" near the river temz in britian. he wore a simple wristwatch with a brown leather wristband. the only numbers on its simple face were twelv, three, six and nine. he was constantly checking the time on his watch.
the elite club had fancy decorations and everybody wore fancy clothing or else they could not enter the club.
that fateful day in the start of autmn, in the month SEPTember, roze saw the first violator arguing with the doorman. a cop heard and led the simply dresd fellow away. the guy punchd the cop but the cop was traind and easily knockd down the puncher and tied his hands.
roze shook his head at the horrible world around him. luckily he saw from a safe distance.
rodd sat at a table with three strangers. they were gambling in a card game named "rummy". the game was very quiet as each man focusd on his cards and tryd to assemble a group to win the gambling money.
rodd felt nervous at the silence and talked about the change in travel. now that they dug the canal by suez, a boat can pass thru the canal from italy to yemen. a man with blond hair askd "before that, a person could also sail from here south and around the nile continent near the orinj river region and also come to yemen", as he rubbed his shaved chin with his left hand.
rodd explaind that the time would now be much less kuz less distance. time is so precious that it cannot be purchased once it passed. he added that he was certain that he could use the canal to go around the globe in less than three months.
as they continued the card game, enriq eavz said, as he smoothd his dark brown hair, "that depends if... you travel without interruptions you can estimate the travel time and distance, however so many problems can occur sailing or steam engines of ships or trains that you will be delayd and cannot calculate how many months." rodd replied that he was willing to personally travel and show that he could in less than 3 months.
the blond guy, named liam lin, offerd a gamble: "we are all gamblers so lets wager that in three months he will be too delayd to return here."
the man with dark black hair, named ian iwamoto lay his cards on the table and announced that his religion forbids him to gamble. he should not even gamble for cards but only play cards without gambling. ian added that he thout rodd could use the canal and succeed in less than three months even traveling on land across u.s, then roze said "going across the narrow part of america would be quicker, yet still for the wager sake i will bet ten thousand british pounds that i can go around using the new railroads in u.s in eighty days... from now! he said this as he lay his set of cards on the table. the others showd their cards and the winner collected the gambling money.
the group shook hands on the agreement and immediately rodd hurried out from the elite club.
before he enterd a carriage, puld by two horses, he heard loud shouting, an angry argument about slavery in america. he watched as one guy kikd the other's leg, who then wrestled him. he was glad that he was in the elite club separate and far from the violent people. the horses puld his car to his home, as the coach-driver whipd the horses.
rodd enterd his home and politely requested that his butler, named tod toczi, would pack his small leather case with clothing. the aid did and offerd to stay and gard the home but rodd insisted that he needed an aid. the aid furiously argued that he would not travel such a dangerous adventure !!
rodd calmd him and assured him that travel was not dangerous anymore so they left and rented a car to the hot air balloon.
roze hired the hot balloon to take himself and his aid from that city, named temztown, southeast across the channel to the railway in france.
that night they floated across the channel into france.
the balloon came down near the train station and only a few hours remaind until the early morning train would bring milk to the citys.
the patrolman at the train station was suspicous that somebody flew there at night and chekd the news reports from britian. he read that a "bank was robd" in london that day and felt "a hunch" that this was the theif trying to escape with his money by night and travel far away.
he ran to the telephone and reported the strange and suspicious night arrival to his captain. the captain did not believe this was the same person, adding the balloon was probably from a french city.
the patrolman named cy cingil was so certain, that he left his post and went to question the travelers.
cy pretended he had a british accent and asked where they were traveling. rodd replied that they were traveling by train to marse. cy acted surprised that they were going to the same place that he was going. cy offerd to help buy tickets together and would exchange money for french money. rodd had french money so he paid for the tickets and they sat to chat until the train arrived.
next large metal casks labeld milk in french words, were loaded onto the train and it sped by steam engine along the rails. the two brits slept in the train and by the time they awoke the train had arrived in marse port of south france. the war with prussia did not bother them on that side of france althoe the aid bout a book and read about the violent battles.
cy cald his boss and begd for approval to arrest the bank robber and bring him to a judge. the captain refused by saying they had no evidence. cy lost his temper and argued about justice and saying his boss helpd crime and they had a huge arguing conflict until cy quit his job. cy was so angry that he puld off his uniform jacket and stretched it with a yell until it ripd. he wanted to punch his boss but knew that violence and inflicting pain was evil so he must not hurt any person.
from the french train the steamboat took them by sea on a smooth and uneventful trip. on the ship rodd met strangers and gambled with them in the card game rummy. he was lucky and won. the aid redd about the violent battles between france and prussia. finally a few days later the boat came to the northeast coast of the nile continent. the port was near the long river named nile.
the brits switched to a ship bringing grain to australia becuase it would have less stops than a boat to india. the steam boat plowed thru the NEWLY dug suez canal and southeast toward australia carrying dry goods such as rice wheat and flour.
cy tried to convince roze to travel to the port named bombay but rodd explained he was rushing around the world and did not have time for many port stops. he added that it would add time to go around the malaya peninsula. time was always very precious and especily now when the wager depended on time.
cy said "if you want something precious then you can go to india where the indians burn the widow with her dead husband... and save a life." rodd said his time was limited but cy insisted human life was very precious. so rodd said the women would protest. cy explaind that the woman believs in that faith and will not resist the flaming fire and they probably drug the widow too. rodd replyd that he did not believe that primitives still did that custom, adding "after all it was already modernized 1870 and now even america modernized and stopd bad slavery."
a few nights later strong winds from a sstorm with heavy rain tosd the ship. they had a difficult night in the storm.
sadly one of the crew fell over board from the tilting ship and slippery deck. the captain was certain that the sailor drowned to death in the storm and they had a prayer service to honor the seriousness of human death.
sailors of varying religions wore many different styles of clothing to the ceremony. hindu priests said their prayer and christians said their prayer. roze was quiet and after the ceremony confided to his aid that all that prayer and ceremony had no effects and a "moment of silence" for the seriousness of death would have been more meaningful than many prayers of competing religions.
tod was surprised and said that as a christian he must say prayers when somebody died. rodd simply shrugd but announced this would be the last gambling he would ever do in his life.
then for the first time in his life he offered his aid to play cards without gambling. the aid was puzzled and baffled. "i never said that gambling was a sin" but rodd said that he made his commitment and anyway should not gamble with his own worker employee even if he hadnt committed to stop gambling.
the aid offered a toast of alcohol to honor the death of the sailor.
when roze refused the alcohol, an argument erupted.
the aid shouted, "this is for honoring the dead why wont you honor the dead." rodd roard back "i dont have to do anything you say". the argument became personal as tod yeld back "this is not my command it is for decency to respect death, you silly islamist", he cald his employer that kuz islamists teach that drinking wine or alcohol is a sin.
to his surprise, rodd burst out laffing. "did you just call me islam? hahaha"
tods eyes opend wide as he regretted his accusation and also shook in horror at his boss surprising response. "i am the farthest from any religion certainly i would never try to fast and not eat for an entire month". the laughter calmd the argument and rod apologized for not respecting his boss. after all he would drink TWO cups of wine.
good winds led them to the coast of australia sooner than the schedule and soon the ship arrived at the port city darwin.
the ship emptied its cargo and loaded food to return to the suez canal. they bout tickets for a steamboat traveling to america.
while they waited for the ship the aid talkd about people riding elephants t travel in india. there was danger of wild tribes. roze argued that nowadays there were no wild tribes in india. "you know that i am right thats the reason you avoided india" argued the aid. but rodd softly explained that a ship must sail south around the malaya peninsula and near australia anyway, so better a line than two sides of a triangle.
at the port a married couple needed money for tickets to los angeles. roze had enuf so he offerd to buy the wifes colorfully gemd ring with two briit diamonds each surrounded by a circle of red green and blue gems. they went to a gem dealer who said the gems were worth lots and as a ring worth 2000 british pounds. roze admitted he intended to pay 2500 and gave the paper money to the young couple. she had dark skin and said she was born in india.
while they waited together for the boat from darwin australia to los angeles america, she told her story thar she was obligated to marry a man from the same low caste she was born in.
this american tourist named gavvin genzel saw her crying at her pas bean shop. he askd why she was crying and spent his money for the extra ticket that he had not pland. instead of returning to america passing japan, he bout to shorter trips to sail from india to australia. the ring had been in her mas room kuz it was too precious to wear so when ma was away she "took her inheritance early" and left with gavvin. her name was now mrs. genzel. he also bout her western style dress so they thout she came from america with him. he also wed her at the consulate so she had american papers.
roze praisd gav for rescuing the lady from india. the genzels bout tickets and when the company realized there were many passengers it rerouted a ship from kapuas isle, the largest one in that ocean and that had the kapuas river, to change route and go to darwin to get the passengers. this benefitted roze in a way he had never expected.
tod the aid wanted to show he was right. while they sat at the dock, he asked the lady "what happens to a widow when her man died". she said that in the past certain tribes would burn the dead man with his widow, until a few years ago a budhist priest that was protecting the corpse wore the corpses clothing... so peple were scared that he returnd to life and fled screaming. then he saved the lady and taut that this ceremony was never truly requird ever. so the followers stopd that ceremony and only burnt the dead man.
roze commented on the story that a woman should not see a man switch clothing.
gail, for that was her new american name, assured him, that seeing a man change clothing did not cause women sinful thouts.
roze changed topic and said he pland to cross america by train. gav said if they went north to his city they could cross on a "wind sled over snow" with less stops than a train. roze calculated that he was right and they decided to travel together.
before they could enter the boat, a cop came to the dock, and arrested roze. roze demanded the accusation. cop said robd bank in london and the cop ignord his denial kuz all criminals deny. at the station the cop lokd roze in a cell. then he invited the aid to drink beer with him to celebrate justice.
they wawkd to a pub and tod sat. the american sent his wife, gail to get a judge to release his new frend so they would not miss the ship. he followd the cop to the pub named "purple pub."
the cop went to the cash box and payd for two cups beer. gav sat near the wall in the corner far from the door. he watched the server fill two cups and put on tray to bring to the table... but the cop acted strange and insisted he would carry it himself. this grabd the americans attention.
the cop put the tray on the wooden counter and reached into his jacket pocket. he pulled a white envelope and pourd wiit powder into one cup. the american reached into HIS jacket pocket and puld a revolver ! BANG BANG two bullets flew along the side of the counter and slamd into the chest and belly of the cop.
the cop toppld forward spilling the beers but the envelope was in his hand.
gav ran to the corpse and waved the envelope saying "look he tried to poison my frend." then he grabd tods wrist and hurried to the police station.
meanwhile gail had convinced the judge of the emergency and he took a break from his office to come to the jail.
they all met in the prison room. gav explaind that the cop arrested roze for a burglary in london but he was from a different city.
the judge replyd "now calm down nobody needs to prove that they are innocent." the judge askd the cop why roze got arrested. this cop said he got a telegram from the police in london to arrest roze. the judge then askd if he verifyd the message.
the cop had not. so he decreed as judge that cops could not arrest a man based on a telegram message alone. roze said "probably liam lin sent it so that he would win the bet. still i am willing to deposit money that i will return to britian and face judge there. but you must send the money when i keep my word." the judge said "that is cald bail" and wrote the document.
then the cops releasd roze and thanks to gail they all reachd the boat in time for entering the ship.
the steam ship rushd through the huge sea. one day later a messenger came to roze with a message from the judge. they had contacted london police who denied sending an arrest message. they had contacted the telegraph office and heard that the name of the sender was "enriq eavz" not the police. furthermore the cop that died in the purple pub was only in a costume of a cop but his name was the one that roze had mentiond... none other than 'liam lin." !! now tod understood the real reason he wanted to "celebrate" for himself and even poison him.
a few days pasd as the ship traveld northeast... until a voice shouted "sea monster". a tourist holding lenses cald binoculars [that is latin meaning "for two eyes"] pointed and cald everybody to see. a sailor looked thru the lense and said "that is merely the arm of a common squid".
as the crowd dispersed the man shouted again "the sea monster is breaking a ship". this interested roze who grabbed the binocular and saw a large warship probably a cruiser 600 feet long, with a relatively large squid arm wrapped up its side. the ship was not wood but grey metal which he had never seen on ship before. it had large numbers painted in white paint "CA-47". relative to that distant ship the arm must be over twenty feet across the width of the long arm !! that was no common squid. he could not believe his own eyes as the arm tipd the boat forward and the front went down and puld under water. the long aft rose until the sides bent... wood does not do that... and square grey plates fell apart like crumbs as the ship snapd in half. yes that was a sea monster.
he ran to the captain to change direction so the sea monster would not attk this boat too. the captin would not believe roze but the tourist with binoculars was a second witness. since they saw the squid southeast they turnd due north directly north to get away from the siit of the squid.
that niit roze could not sleep as he saw the horror of a giant squid pulling the ship under water.
he heard creaking sounds and thout the squid was attacking this wooden ship now.
as he ran to the deck of the boat he saw a dark patch blocking the many stars in the sky. on either side were many stars but not along this long wide dark patch, that hid more and more stars and then he saw in the light from the ship... it was a giant wide arm of a sea squid so much larger than any squid it was monstrous size.
as the arm wrapped around the front of the ship roze panikd... he saw thsi boat tipping forward and pulled under water and the wood would all crack even if he could float on broken wood he would lose the wager.
in desperation he grabd one of the ships lamps and ran to the kitchen where he grabbed 2 bottles of rum. the lamp swung from his teeth. as the arm squeezd the wood and the wood began to crack he held the lamp from its wire handle in his teeth and pourd two bottles of rum along the arm of the squid.for ten meters long across the width of the ship called "beam", then he broke the lamp and held the flame near the wet rum. the alcohol burnt and the flame of fire spread all along the arm. a line of flame roard ten meters long across the width of the arm and a huge patch of arm burnt kuz the rum had coverd downward too. the tentacle straightend and rose into the sky... all the sailors were witness as the long arm burnt briit and puld back into the sea. the sailors saw that the fence of the rail was damaged but the sides were not broken. roze had saved the ship from a giant squid in time. as thoe the dream had warnd him in a a message from the gods.
he wonderd which gods had sent the message?
a week later a huge storm tossd the boat. giant waves crashed over the deck and the boat tipd and turnd in every direction for several hours. within minutes almost everybody had emptied their stomiks cald vomiting from the motion. even those common with the sea waves including roze who had often traveld by ship was dizzy and vomitted. the boat survived the ruff storm and a week later arrived at the coast of los angeles.
then they rode north to the city where gav lived and began the train ride across america. the train went uphills and down over flat plains. the train rode as scheduled until it stopd suddely quicly slowing. a group of bulls were on the rails and the driver prevented a crash. the delay cost the train and roze an hour but that day the snow began to fall. sooner than pland roze left the train and bout a sail sled to slide over the snow. he aimed the sail to catch the wind at verying angles and zipd quickly across the icy snow and plains along the route gav had mapd for him.
danger ! wolvs chased the sled but luckily the wind is common in winter so they slid faster than the chasing wolvs.
in a shorter time than pland and faster than a train he crosd the continent. by the end of november he was in the ship from new york to liverpool on the west of england instead of december 11. [later that boat left early and woulda needed a boat to france and back west].
in the newspaper tod the aid read that a train had been atakd by savages. as the train rode between trees some native savages had jumpd down on the roof and swung their axes killing many passengers. the few people with guns only succeeded at shooting a few of the killers before the axes cut them. more native savages ataksd the same train as it left the forest from horses riding alongside. they climbd in nd kild almost everybody in the train.
he suspected it was the train from san francisco and made the effort to check... that it was the train that roze woulda used, after exiting the boat, if not for his frend gav that had led them north instead.
enriq had wanted to win the bet, so strongly that he paid natives to atak the train and "take revenge" for traveling on their native land. so theorized tod but rodd argued that the natives were simply savages who did not respect the life of white people.
either way had they been in that train the axes certainly woulda kild them too.
at liverpool ian was already at the dock greeting them. "i told them you would succeed". roze argued that he had not completed the circle but ian explaind that the coast of england was near enuf and showd a newspaper that they were less than 80 days. roze shouted angrily that the newspaper was wrong and that he had counted the days... but the day of the week was one day diffrent. ian explaind that they had crossd the international date line so the name of the day was different than rodd expected. he handed the money that liam and enriq had deposited by him. did he arrive in december? 80 days after leaving in december? no he left in september.
with the prize money he invited ian and tod on another trip this time... around the fattest part of the sphere centerd between the axes. tod protested that traveling thru the jungles of the nile continent was too dangerous a tiger orlion could kill them and better to enjoy the prize money.
roze said i am so wealthy i will give all the money to you just stay in the house until i return.
this time roze traveld west. he went to buy a ticket westward but the ship had already left. instead he searchd for a mail ship to brazil. it would leave the following morning. that niit roze stayd and partyd with tod and ian without alcohol drinks. they playd gambling rummy but nobody needed to pay moey so they just counted points. that morning rodd left on the mail ship to brazil.
2 weeks later tod got a card from brazil on paper from a hotel in brazil. he read about the huge storm in the sea. after the storm roze urged the capain to go faster.when he refused rodd had paid a large sum for the ship and instructed to use all the coal quickly. the steam boiled hot and pushed the ship faster south. when the stars showed he was midway centerd between the axes cald equator then he turnd west and all the coal was used and finishd before they came to brazil kuz the trip was two sides of a triangle insted of the plan.
then roze had orderd the sailors to cut wood from the mail ship to fuel the steam engine. this made the boat lighter less mass so less fuel afterward. the wood was enuf to get to brazil along the equator line as he had wanted. despite the longer trip mor length, still, the mail was deliverd earlier than scheduled.
ian and tod lived in the house and waited for the date that rodd had said he would return. they even prepared a party and waited at the dock of liverpool but when the ship came rodd roze did not arrive.
sadly they went home and canceld the party. they waited for a week and proclaimd him dead but at least they inherited the home.
gav visited britian that summer and contacted tod. he his wife tod and ian were all reunited and had a happy visit. the end.
endnote: details regarding murmansk [that is a city just 30 degrees of sphere away from axis of spin, and 30 degrees of sphere east from london called 30east.] then fly
northeast along coast of novia-zamalya [between axis and coast of ural-continent by 50e longitude across 130w].
regarding the fat part, flying at 500 kilometer per hour... oops i mean flying high where the air is thin and less resistant around 900 kilometers per hour, as common now, from london to hong kong in around fifteen hours for just 500 british pound money. [change jet in dubai] with flight time 7 and 7 hours.
leaving at night from london flying 7 hours east arriving where that time is called morning and then seven more hours east when that time is called night and in britian same time cald noon ! then to los-angeles in 2 hours plus twelv hours, from there l.a directly to london in ten hours, for around 400 pound. total time just 40 hours less than two days ! or... better yet travel westward.
london to l.a as above ten hours jet-flight. in london cald morning but there not yet light. to h.k as above 14 hours to london 14 more seems better.
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