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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.

Chapters 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, 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 attempt to reach Shanghai. But John Bunsby believed in the tanker

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