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`` Ah , '' exclaimed Fogg , `` is that Queenstown where the lights are ? '' `` Yes . '' `` Can not we enter the harbour ? '' `` Not before three o'clock ; the tide will not serve . '' `` Let us wait then , '' said Fogg calmly , without betraying any emotion that , by a last effort , he was about to conquer his ill-luck . Queenstown is the port at which the American mails are landed , which are then forwarded to Dublin by an express train , and from thence to Liverpool -LSB- A -RSB- by fast steamers , thus gaining twelve hours upon the fastest vessels . -LSB- Footnote A : Holyhead .