eleven o'clock
At ten o'clock they re-embarked , closely followed by the detective , who had kept them constantly in sight . Passepartout , who had been purchasing several dozen mangoes -- a fruit as large as good-sized apples , of a dark brown color outside and a bright red within , and whose white pulp , melting in the mouth , affords gourmands a delicious sensation -- was waiting for them on deck . He was only too glad to offer some mangoes to Aouda , who thanked him very gracefully for them . At eleven o'clock the Rangoon rode out of Singapore harbor , and in a few hours the high mountains of Malacca , with their forests , inhabited by the most beautifully furred tigers in the world , were lost to view . Singapore is distant some thirteen hundred miles from the island of Hong Kong , which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast . Phileas Fogg hoped to accomplish the journey in six days , so as to be in time for the steamer which would leave on the 6th of November for Yokohama , the principal Japanese port . The Rangoon had a large quota of passengers , many of whom disembarked at Singapore , among them a number of Indians , Ceylonese , Chinamen , Malays and Portuguese , mostly second-class travelers .