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Title: Around the world in eighty days
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Boston : J. R. Osgood & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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to go on with us as far as America .* * Yes, returned Fix, through his set teeth. Good! exclaimed Passepartout, laughing heartily. I knew you could not persuade yourself to separate fromus. Come and engage your berth. They entered the steamer office and secured cabins forfour persons. The clerk, as he gave them the tickets,informed them that, the repairs on the Carnatic havingbeen completed, the steamer would leave that very evening,and not next morning as had been announced. That will suit my master all the better, said Passe-partout. I will go and let him know. Fix now decided to make a bold move ; he resolved totell Passepartout all. It seemed to be the only possiblemeans of keeping Phileas Fogg several days longer atHong Kong. He accordingly invited his companion intoa tavern which caught his eye on the quay. On entering,they found themselves in a large room handsomely deco-rated, at the end of which was a large camp-bed fur-nished with cushions. Several persons lay upon this bed
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IN HIS STEOLL PASSEPAETOUT CA:ME ACEOSS A NUMBEE OP OLD ^ATIVES, (Page 143. AROUND THE WORLD IX EIGHTY DAYS. 145 in a deep sleep. At the small tables which Avere ar-ranged about the room some thirty customers weredrinking English beer, porter, gin, and brandy; smoking,the Avhile, long red clay pipes stuffed with little ballsof opium mingled Avith essence of rose. From timeto time one of the smokers, overcome with the nar-cotic, would slip under the table, whereupon the waiters,taking him by the head and feet, carried and laid himupon the bed. The bed already supported twenty of thesestupefied sots. Fix and Passepartout saw that they were in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic crea-tures, to whom the English merchants sell every year themiserable drug called opium, to the amount of one millionfour hundred thousand pounds—thousands devoted to oneof the most despicable vices which afflict humanity! TheChinese government has in vain attempted to deal with thee

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