![]() Passepartout had but few steps to go and, rushing upon the plank, he crossed it, and fell unconscious on the deck, just as the Carnatic was moving off. The steamer lay puffing alongside the quay, on the point of starting. Staggering and holding himself up by keeping against the walls, falling down and creeping up again, and irresistibly impelled by a kind of instinct, he kept crying out, "The Carnatic! the Carnatic!" The thought of a duty unfulfilled shook off his torpor, and he hurried from the abode of drunkenness. Three hours later, pursued even in his dreams by a fixed idea, the poor fellow awoke, and struggled against the stupefying influence of the narcotic. ![]() It was Passepartout and what had happened to him was as follows: Shortly after Fix left the opium den, two waiters had lifted the unconscious Passepartout, and had carried him to the bed reserved for the smokers. ![]() The next day a passenger with a half–stupefied eye, staggering gait, and disordered hair, was seen to emerge from the second cabin, and to totter to a seat on deck. Two state–rooms in the rear were, however, unoccupied-those which had been engaged by Phileas Fogg. She carried a large cargo and a well–filled cabin of passengers. The Carnatic, setting sail from Hong Kong at half–past six on the 7th of November, directed her course at full steam towards Japan. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.
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