Stories 7
- GB
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Five minutes late
Arrested in Liverpool, released, five minutes late to London. Then a proposal, a vicar, and a day I had not known I had.
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- US
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872San Francisco, a political meeting
A day in San Francisco: a good breakfast, a quantity of firearms, and an election in which I took no side and still lost.
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- USAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
New York, forty-five minutes late
The China sailed at nine. We reached the pier at a quarter past eleven. I slept well, all the same.
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- JP
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Passepartout's account: the Long Noses
My servant's own account of how he reached Yokohama without me, without money, and very nearly without a nose.
City7 min read
- IN
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Two thousand pounds in Calcutta
An elephant given away, a magistrate's court, a pair of shoes produced in evidence, and the Rangoon at noon. Expensive, but punctual.
City5 min read
- HK
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Hong Kong, one steamer short
A storm in the China Sea cost the Rangoon a day. The Carnatic did not wait, and my servant went with it.
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- INAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
Bombay, and Passepartout's shoes
Four hours in Bombay: a passport office, an indifferent dinner, and a servant who came back to the station without his shoes.
City3 min read