Jazz, romance & mystery in New York City

On the ninth day after leaving Yokohama, Phileas Fogg had traversed exactly one half of the terrestrial globe.

Mr. Fogg had, it is true, exhausted fifty-two of the eighty days in which he was to complete the tour, and there were only twenty-eight left.But, though he was only half-way by the difference of meridians, he had really gone over two-thirds of the whole journey; for he had been obliged to make long circuits from London to Aden, from Aden to Bombay, from Calcutta to Singapore, and from Singapore to Yokohama.

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