In the journey around the world there is not just water, so you can't go through the whole trip in a steamship. Unless you plan to go by foot, there are other ways to travel on land. Here are some methods Phileas Fogg used. At the time, the most convenient way to travel long distances on land was by railroads. Railroads were just installed not long ago, from the Industrial Revolution, without them it would be nearly impossible to circumnavigate the world in 80 days. Also the invention of the locomotive that rode on the rails. At the time of Phileas Fogg's travel, the locomotives ran mainly on coal and steam power, however now-a-days many run on electricity or magnets. They can travel at amazing speeds now as well, compared to before where it could only run at about 20mph. QUICK FACT: The first railway was built in 1925.
In India, he traveled on sometihng quite unique as natural causes caused rail transportation to not be available to him. Traveling on foot through the Indian jungles is not a good idea, so what could you do? Well maybe ride an animal? In India it is quite unique and the ride elephants for transport, and thats what Phileas did. Not being familiar he hired people to help guide him and the animal to the next town. Pretty cool right?
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