本章讲述菲克斯对别人说的话似乎完全摸不着头脑
“仰光号”是半岛东方航运公司航行于中国和日本海域的轮船之一，是一艘铁制螺旋桨蒸汽船，重约一千七百七十吨，主机功率四百马力。它的航速与“蒙古号”相当，但设施不如后者豪华。对于奥达来说，船上的条件不如斐利亚·福格希望的那样舒适。不过，从加尔各答到香港的航程只有大约三千五百英里，需要十到十二天时间，这位年轻女子并不挑剔。
旅途的头几天，奥达与她的保护人更加熟悉了，她不断表达对他所做的事情的深切感激。这位冷静的绅士听她说话时，至少表面上很冷淡，声音和举止都没有流露出丝毫情感；但他似乎总是留意着不让奥达缺少任何舒适条件。他每天准时来看望她，与其说是自己说话，不如说是坐下来听她说话。他以最严格的礼貌对待她，却带着一种自动机械般的精确性，仿佛他的动作就是为了这个目的而设计的。奥达真不知道该如何看待他，尽管路路通已经向主人暗示过一些主人的古怪之处，并告诉他那个促使主人环游世界的赌局，让她不禁莞尔。无论如何，她欠斐利亚·福格一条命，她总是透过感激的光环来看待他。
奥达证实了那位帕西向导对她感人故事的叙述。她确实属于印度本土最高贵的种族之一。许多帕西商人在印度做棉花生意发了大财；其中一位叫做詹姆塞特吉·杰吉博伊爵士的人，被英国政府封为准男爵。奥达正是这位伟人的亲戚，她希望在香港投靠的就是他的表亲杰吉。她不知道能否在那里找到保护人；但福格先生试图安抚她的焦虑，向她保证一切都会——他用了这个词——“精确地”安排妥当。奥达用那双“清澈如喜马拉雅圣湖”的大眼睛看着他；但那位难以捉摸的福格，一如既往地矜持，似乎完全没有要投入这个湖中的意思。
航行的头几天很顺利，天气晴朗，风向有利，他们很快就看到了大安达曼岛——孟加拉湾群岛中最大的岛屿——其风景如画的鞍峰高达两千四百英尺，巍然耸立于海面之上。轮船沿着海岸航行，但那些处于人类发展最低阶段、并非如传言所说吃人的巴布亚野人并没有出现。
当轮船驶过这些岛屿时，眼前的景色美不胜收。前景是大片大片的棕榈树、槟榔树、竹子、柚木、巨大的含羞草和树状蕨类植物；后面，群山的优美轮廓映衬在天际；沿海岸线上，成千上万珍贵的燕子在飞翔，它们的巢为天朝上国的餐桌提供了一道奢侈的菜肴。然而，安达曼群岛变化万千的风景很快就过去了，“仰光号”迅速接近通往中国海的马六甲海峡。
那位不幸被牵引着一国又一国追踪而来的侦探菲克斯，这段时间在干什么呢？他在加尔各答设法偷偷上了“仰光号”，没有被路路通看见，并留下命令，如果逮捕令到了，就送到香港给他；他希望在航程结束前一直隐藏自己的行踪。如果被人发现他在船上，很难解释清楚而又不引起路路通的怀疑——路路通还以为他仍在孟买呢。然而，情势所迫，他还是不得不与那位好仆人重新结识，下文自会分晓。
现在，侦探所有的希望和期盼都集中在香港；因为轮船在新加坡停靠的时间太短，他无法在那里采取任何行动。逮捕必须在香港进行，否则这个强盗很可能就会永远逃脱。香港是他能踏上英属领土的最后一站；再往前，中国、日本、美洲都会为福格提供几乎安全的避难所。如果逮捕令最终能在香港到达，菲克斯就可以逮捕他，将他交给当地警方，这样就不再有麻烦了。但过了香港，一张普通的逮捕令就没用了；需要引渡令，那就会导致拖延和障碍，让这个恶棍有机可乘，逃脱法网。
菲克斯在船舱里度过的漫长时间里，反复思考着这些可能性，不断对自己说：“现在，要么逮捕令会在香港，那样我就能抓住那家伙；要么它不会到香港；那这一次我就绝对必须拖延他离开。我在孟买失败了，在加尔各答也失败了；如果我在香港再失败，我的名声就毁了：不管付出什么代价，我都必须成功！但如果那成了我最后的手段，我又该如何阻止他离开呢？”
菲克斯下定决心，如果最坏的情况发生，他就向路路通吐露秘密，告诉他主人到底是个什么样的人。他非常确信路路通不是福格的同谋。这个仆人一旦得知真相，害怕自己也被牵连进犯罪中，无疑会成为侦探的盟友。但这种方法很危险，只能在所有其他办法都失败后才采用。路路通对他主人说一个字就会毁掉一切。因此，侦探陷入了困境。但突然，一个新想法闪过他的脑海。奥达出现在“仰光号”上，与斐利亚·福格同行，这给了他新的思考素材。
这个女人是谁？是什么事件的组合让她成了福格的旅伴？他们显然是在孟买和加尔各答之间的某个地方相遇的；但那是哪里呢？他们是偶然相遇，还是福格特意深入内陆去寻找这位迷人的姑娘？菲克斯完全困惑了。他问自己，这是否是一场不道德的私奔；这个想法深深印在他的脑海里，他决定利用这个所谓的私通事件。不管这位年轻女子是否已婚，他都能在香港为福格先生制造足够多的麻烦，让他即使花多少钱也逃脱不了。
但他能等到他们到达香港吗？福格有一种令人讨厌的习惯，就是从一个船跳到另一个船，在事情还没办成之前，他可能已经又全速出发前往横滨了。
菲克斯决定，他必须警告英国当局，并在“仰光号”到达之前发出信号。这很容易做到，因为轮船会在新加坡停靠，那里有电报线通往香港。最后，在采取更明确的行动之前，他决定先盘问路路通。让他开口说话并不难；而且时间紧迫，菲克斯准备表明身份了。
今天是10月30日，第二天“仰光号”就该抵达新加坡了。
菲克斯走出他的船舱，来到甲板上。路路通正在轮船前部来回踱步。侦探冲上前去，满脸极度惊讶的表情，喊道：“你在这里，在‘仰光号’上？”
“什么，菲克斯先生，你也在这船上？”真正大吃一惊的路路通认出了他在“蒙古号”上的老朋友，回答道，“哎呀，我离开你的时候你还在孟买，现在你却在这里，去香港的路上！你也要环游世界吗？”
“不，不，”菲克斯回答说，“我会在香港停下来——至少待几天。”
“嗯！”路路通说，似乎一时有些困惑，“可自从我们离开加尔各答以来，我怎么在船上没见过你呢？”
“哦，有点晕船——我一直待在船舱里。孟加拉湾让我不太舒服，不像印度洋那么好。福格先生怎么样？”
“和往常一样好，一样准时，一天也不耽搁！但是，菲克斯先生，你不知道我们有一位年轻女士同行吧。”
“一位年轻女士？”侦探回答说，似乎完全不明白对方在说什么。
于是路路通讲述了奥达的故事、孟买寺庙的事件、花两千英镑买大象的事、营救过程、加尔各答法庭的逮捕和判决，以及福格先生和他自己被保释出来的经过。菲克斯对最后发生的事情了如指掌，却似乎对路路通所说的一切都一无所知；而路路通很高兴找到了一个如此感兴趣的听众。
“但你的主人打算把这个年轻女人带到欧洲去吗？”
“根本不是。我们只是要把她托付给她在香港的一位亲戚照顾，那是个富商。”
“在那里什么也做不了，”菲克斯暗自想道，掩饰着自己的失望，“来杯杜松子酒吗，路路通先生？”
“乐意奉陪，菲克斯先生。我们至少要在‘仰光号’上喝杯友谊酒。”
IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO
HIM
The “Rangoon”—one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s boats plying
in the Chinese and Japanese seas—was a screw steamer, built of iron,
weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of
four hundred horse-power. She was as fast, but not as well fitted up,
as the “Mongolia,” and Aouda was not as comfortably provided for on
board of her as Phileas Fogg could have wished. However, the trip from
Calcutta to Hong Kong only comprised some three thousand five hundred
miles, occupying from ten to twelve days, and the young woman was not
difficult to please.
During the first days of the journey Aouda became better acquainted
with her protector, and constantly gave evidence of her deep gratitude
for what he had done. The phlegmatic gentleman listened to her,
apparently at least, with coldness, neither his voice nor his manner
betraying the slightest emotion; but he seemed to be always on the
watch that nothing should be wanting to Aouda’s comfort. He visited her
regularly each day at certain hours, not so much to talk himself, as to
sit and hear her talk. He treated her with the strictest politeness,
but with the precision of an automaton, the movements of which had been
arranged for this purpose. Aouda did not quite know what to make of
him, though Passepartout had given her some hints of his master’s
eccentricity, and made her smile by telling her of the wager which was
sending him round the world. After all, she owed Phileas Fogg her life,
and she always regarded him through the exalting medium of her
gratitude.
Aouda confirmed the Parsee guide’s narrative of her touching history.
She did, indeed, belong to the highest of the native races of India.
Many of the Parsee merchants have made great fortunes there by dealing
in cotton; and one of them, Sir Jametsee Jeejeebhoy, was made a baronet
by the English government. Aouda was a relative of this great man, and
it was his cousin, Jeejeeh, whom she hoped to join at Hong Kong.
Whether she would find a protector in him she could not tell; but Mr.
Fogg essayed to calm her anxieties, and to assure her that everything
would be mathematically—he used the very word—arranged. Aouda fastened
her great eyes, “clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya,” upon him;
but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ever, did not seem at all
inclined to throw himself into this lake.
The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favourable
weather and propitious winds, and they soon came in sight of the great
Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its
picturesque Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high, looming
above the waters. The steamer passed along near the shores, but the
savage Papuans, who are in the lowest scale of humanity, but are not,
as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance.
The panorama of the islands, as they steamed by them, was superb. Vast
forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, of the gigantic mimosa, and
tree-like ferns covered the foreground, while behind, the graceful
outlines of the mountains were traced against the sky; and along the
coasts swarmed by thousands the precious swallows whose nests furnish a
luxurious dish to the tables of the Celestial Empire. The varied
landscape afforded by the Andaman Islands was soon passed, however, and
the “Rangoon” rapidly approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave
access to the China seas.
