Around the World in Eighty Days Chapter 31

In which Phileas Fogg, finding himself grievously behind schedule, takes counsel with the persistent detective Fix and adopts a novel mode of travel—a wind-driven sledge—to regain lost time across the snowy American plains. The journey is swift and perilous, with the party braving fierce cold and wild beasts as they press onward to Omaha and beyond, only to behold from afar the steamer to Liverpool departing without them.