... solemn-ly. ‘I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hun-dred and ... 158+; or, in days, six days and a half.’ese dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and actual ... heads and declared against him; it was absurd, impossible, they declared, that the tour of the world could be made, except theoretically and on paper, in this minimum of time, and with the ex-isting...