one o'clock
Passepartout clasped the pilot 's hand and shook it heartily in his delight , exclaiming , `` Pilot , you are the best of good fellows ! '' The pilot probably does not know to this day why his responses won him this enthusiastic greeting . He remounted the bridge , and guided the steamer through the flotilla of junks , tankas and fishing boats which crowded the harbor of Hong Kong . At one o'clock the Rangoon was at the quay , and the passengers were going ashore . Chance had strangely favored Phileas Fogg , for if the Carnatic had not been forced to lie over for repairing her boiler , she would have left on the 6th of November , and the passengers for Japan would have been obliged to wait a week for the sailing of the next steamer . Mr. Fogg was , it is true , twenty-four hours behind his time ; but this could not seriously imperil the remainder of his tour . The steamer which crossed the Pacific from Yokohama to San Francisco made a direct connection with that from Hong Kong , and it could not sail until the latter reached Yokohama .