The Parsee, leading the others, noiselessly crept through the wood, and in ten minutes they found themselves on the banks of a small stream, whence, by the light of the rosin torches, they perceived a pyre of wood, on the top of which lay the embalmed body of the rajah, which was to be burned with his wife.
El parsi, guiando a mister Fogg, a sir Francis Cromarty y a Picaporte, se adelantó sin hacer ruido a través del bosque. Después de arrastrarse durante diez minutos por las matas, llegaron al borde de un riachuelo y allí, a la luz de las antorchas de hierro impregnadas de resina, percibieron un montón de leña apilada.