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Tonight, I'll be reading chapters 21 and 22 of Around the World in 80 Days by Jules

Van. So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften. As we settle in, for a peaceful

night's sleep.

Chapter 21 In which the master of the tanker deer runs

great risk of losing a reward of £200. This voyage of 800 miles was a perilous venture

on a craft of 20 tons. And at that season of the year, the Chinese seas are usually

boisterous, subject to terrible gales of wind, and especially during the Econoxes, and

it was now early November. It would clearly have been to the master's

advantage to carry his passengers to Yokohama, since he was paid a certain sum per day,

but he would have been rushed to attempt such a voyage, and it was imprudent even to

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