seven in the morning
`` Agreed , '' said the detective quietly . Eleven days later , on the 3rd of December , the General Grant entered the bay of the Golden Gate , and reached San Francisco . Mr. Fogg had neither gained nor lost a single day . In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco It was seven in the morning when Mr. Fogg , Aouda and Passepartout set foot upon the American continent , if this name can be given to the floating quay upon which they disembarked . These quays , rising and falling with the tide , thus facilitate the loading and unloading of vessels . Alongside them were clippers of all sizes , steamers of all nationalities , and the steamboats , with several decks rising one above the other , which ply on the Sacramento and its tributaries . There were also heaped up the products of a commerce which extends to Mexico , Chili , Peru , Brazil , Europe , Asia and all the Pacific islands .