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Around the World in 80 Days
Chapter XXV
IN WHICH A SLIGHT
GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN
FRANCISCO
It was seven in the morning when Mr. Fogg, Aouda,
and Passepartout set foot upon the American continent, if
this name can be given to the floating quay upon which
they disembarked. These quays, rising and falling with the
tide, thus facilitate the loading and unloading of vessels.
Alongside them were clippers of all sizes, steamers of all
nationalities, and the steamboats, with several decks rising
one above the other, which ply on the Sacramento and its
tributaries. There were also heaped up the products of a
commerce which extends to Mexico, Chili, Peru, Brazil,
Europe, Asia, and all the Pacific islands.
Passepartout, in his joy on reaching at last the American
continent, thought he would manifest it by executing a
perilous vault in fine style; but, tumbling upon some
worm-eaten planks, he fell through them. Put out of
countenance by the manner in which he thus ‘set foot’
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