Around The World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 33 Page 16

He added, more sedately, “Do you know one thing, Captain — ”

“Fogg.”

“Captain Fogg, you've got something of the Yankee about you.”

And, having paid his passenger what he considered a high compliment, he was going away, when Mr. Fogg said, “The vessel now belongs to me?”

“Certainly, from the keel to the truck of the masts — all the wood, that is.”

“Very well.

Have the interior seats, bunks, and frames pulled down, and burn them.”

It was necessary to have dry wood to keep the steam up to the adequate pressure, and on that day the poop,