eleven p.m.
They were still nine hundred miles from New York , but there were plenty of trains . Mr. Fogg passed at once from one train to another , which started at full-speed as if it knew he had no time to lose . It crossed Indiana , Ohio , Pennsylvania , and New Jersey like lightning , through towns with antique names containing streets and tramways , but as yet no houses . At length the Hudson Plain appeared , and at a quarter-past eleven p.m. , on the 11th , the train stopped in the station on the right bank of the river , before the very pier from which the Cunard , otherwise known as the British and North American , Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 's steamers start . The _ China _ had left for Liverpool three-quarters of an hour previously . In which Phileas Fogg struggles against Ill-luck . The _ China _ seemed to have carried off Mr. Fogg 's last hope , for no other steamers of any other line would be of use .