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The group, now including Sir Francis, starts off on the elephant, and after camping for a night they encounter a group of tribal Indians preparing to sacrifice a young woman whose husband, a prince, has just died. In a nearby village, Fogg purchases an elephant from an Indian man and hires a Parsee guide to lead them. Suddenly, though, the train stops-apparently there is a 50-mile span of track that is not yet finished, and passengers must arrange their own transportation to the next point where they can board a train again. Passepartout spends much time gazing out the window at the wild jungles of India. On the train, Fogg and Passepartout meet Sir Francis Cromarty, an Englishman who lives in India. He narrowly escapes the wrath of the priests and makes it to the train station in time. He does not realize that because he is a Christian, he is forbidden to enter in addition, he enters it with shoes on, which is also not allowed. While waiting for the train that will take them across India from Bombay to Calcutta, Passepartout wanders off into a Hindu temple, hoping to see some of the city's sights before they rush off again. The steamer arrives in Bombay two days ahead of schedule, but the arrest warrant has not yet arrived. He follows Fogg and Passepartout on the steamer Mongolia to India, where he hopes to receive a warrant to arrest Fogg as the robber. Waiting for Fogg at the Suez Canal, where he will take a steamer to Bombay, India, is a detective named Fix apparently, Fogg has been accused of robbing the Bank of England. Since 20,000 pounds are at stake, he fetches Passepartout and they head off right away to circumnavigate the globe. While at the Reform Club, he makes a bet with the other club members that it is possible to go around the world by train and steamer in just eighty days, and that he himself can do it.

He has recently hired a new domestic servant, a Frenchman named Passepartout. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy man living in London who is part of the Reform Club, an elite social organization.