The Carnatic sails for Yokohama on the 7th of November. Passepartout wakes up in his state room the next day to find that he is on board the ship, but his master and Aouda are nowhere to be found. He has awakened out of a drug induced sleep on the bed provided for the opium smokers at the tavern, where he has been abandoned by Detective Fix. He yells out the name of the Carnatic, and stumbles out the door only to collapse as soon as he boards the ship. When he awakes on the Carnatic, he is ashamed that he had gotten so drunk, but he started to remember his conversation with Fix, and the unwitting imbibing of liquor along with opium. First, he is angry over his mistake, but then he.....
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