Provisions were purchased at Kholby, and, while Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg took the howdahs on either side, Passepartout got astride the saddle–cloth between them.
The Parsee, who was an accomplished elephant driver, covered his back with a sort of saddle–cloth, and attached to each of his flanks some curiously uncomfortable howdahs.
As for the young Indian woman, she had been unconscious throughout of what was passing, and now, wrapped up in a travelling–blanket, was reposing in one of the howdahs.