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  • Subjects had been carted in from provinces as far-reaching as Mumbai and Singapore to act as guinea pigs for the antidote testing.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't see the likes of this in Bombay or the Bowery of New York itself.†   (source)
  • The Black Sun is mostly full of Asians, including a lot of people from the Bombay film industry, glaring at each other, stroking their black mustaches, trying to figure out what kind of hyperviolent action film will play in Persepolis next year.†   (source)
  • They all wore handkerchiefs or printed Bombay Dyeing hand towels on their heads to stave off the sun.†   (source)
  • I mean, that almost looked like Bombay or something, except with more violence.†   (source)
  • Of course, many older residents of Clarkston didn't want their town to become New York City or Mumbai.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the contrast with Mumbai was misleading, because southern and western India had always had far higher HIV rates than northern and eastern India.†   (source)
  • We're moving past the cobra man and into the throng of people crowding every inch of Bombay's frenzied marketplace.†   (source)
  • How she and her brother Brent had visited the spot, to hang prayer flags from the roadside shrubs and pour a bottle of their father's favorite Bombay Gin over the blood still staining the sand.†   (source)
  • The bottles on the shelf on the back wall were impressive—Pinch, Johnny Walker, Bombay gin—even if they were filled with home-brewed tej.†   (source)
  • Many he knew from his old life in Idris—the Penhallows, the Lightwoods, the Ravenscars—and just as many he had just met, like the Monteverdes, who ran the Lisbon Institute and spoke in a mixture of Portuguese and English, or Nasreen Chaudhury, the stern-featured head of the Mumbai Institute.†   (source)
  • Mumbai 6:08 PM Sean said… Fang, I want to be a bird kid.†   (source)
  • High hopes rode with the revised satellite, which returned eleven days later, landing near Bombay, India.†   (source)
  • Or the life stories of prostitutes in Bombay.†   (source)
  • How much a tonne of your wheat fetches in Bombay?†   (source)
  • Then Jakarta, Seoul and Mumbai.†   (source)
  • A kid who identified himself as Big C walked up to the map and immediately chose a place near Bombay, India; nor did Top Cat neglect the portion of Russia that borders the Bering Sea.†   (source)
  • But at the time it didn't seem so to me—I thought I saw everything very clearly—and I thought she had got the idea from some young man from Bombay or thereabouts who was trying to make himself interesting.†   (source)
  • They brought him a book and what he liked best was a picture of a fat man with a cloth around his head, sitting on a tasseled cushion with a long snakey tube in his mouth, and it said: There was a fat man of Bombay Who was smoking his pipe one fine day When a bird called a snipe Flew away with his pipe, Which vexed that fat man of Bombay.†   (source)
  • No; all these gymnastics, you may be sure, will cease at Bombay.   (source)
    Bombay = old name (pre-1995) for Mumbai -- the financial capital and largest metropolitan area in India
  • You have been looked for, prisoners, for two days on the trains from Bombay.   (source)
  • They had evidently met somewhere between Bombay and Calcutta; but where?   (source)
  • The Mongolia was due at Bombay on the 22nd; she arrived on the 20th.   (source)
  • "Is Bombay far from here?" asked Passepartout.   (source)
  • Send without delay warrant of arrest to Bombay.   (source)
  • Fix felt sure that Phileas Fogg would not land at Suez, but was really going on to Bombay.   (source)
  • You were only going to Bombay, and here you are in China.   (source)
  • And does she go from Suez directly to Bombay?   (source)
  • Why, I left you at Bombay, and here you are, on the way to Hong Kong!   (source)
  • We are not talking of the pagoda of Pillaji, but of the pagoda of Malabar Hill, at Bombay.   (source)
  • "Yet you sell tickets from Bombay to Calcutta," retorted Sir Francis, who was growing warm.   (source)
  • .... 7 days From Suez to Bombay, by steamer ….   (source)
  • The steamer entered the road formed by the islands in the bay, and at half-past four she hauled up at the quays of Bombay.   (source)
  • I sent the Bombay priests after him, I got you intoxicated at Hong Kong, I separated you from him, and I made him miss the Yokohama steamer.   (source)
  • Fix had gone on shore shortly after Mr. Fogg, and his first destination was the headquarters of the Bombay police.   (source)
  • It would have been difficult to explain why he was on board without awakening Passepartout's suspicions, who thought him still at Bombay.   (source)
  • An hour after leaving Bombay the train had passed the viaducts and the Island of Salcette, and had got into the open country.   (source)
  • Fix was sorely disappointed, and tried to obtain an order of arrest from the director of the Bombay police.   (source)
  • Fix, who had followed Mr. Fogg to the station, and saw that he was really going to leave Bombay, was there, upon the platform.   (source)
  • These fanatics were scattered throughout the county, and would, despite the English police, recover their victim at Madras, Bombay, or Calcutta.   (source)
  • I have failed at Bombay, and I have failed at Calcutta; if I fail at Hong Kong, my reputation is lost: Cost what it may, I must succeed!   (source)
  • The two days gained between London and Bombay had been lost, as has been seen, in the journey across India.   (source)
  • A range of hills lay against the sky in the horizon, and soon the rows of palms which adorn Bombay came distinctly into view.   (source)
  • The confusion of master and man, who had quite forgotten the affair at Bombay, for which they were now detained at Calcutta, may be imagined.   (source)
  • It had followed him from Bombay, and had come by the Carnatic, on which steamer he himself was supposed to be.   (source)
  • Several years ago, when I was living at Bombay, a young widow asked permission of the governor to be burned along with her husband's body; but, as you may imagine, he refused.   (source)
  • The Mongolia had still sixteen hundred and fifty miles to traverse before reaching Bombay, and was obliged to remain four hours at Steamer Point to coal up.   (source)
  • Fix did not insist, and was fain to resign himself to await the arrival of the important document; but he was determined not to lose sight of the mysterious rogue as long as he stayed in Bombay.   (source)
  • He made himself known as a London detective, told his business at Bombay, and the position of affairs relative to the supposed robber, and nervously asked if a warrant had arrived from London.   (source)
  • The worthy Indian then gave some account of the victim, who, he said, was a celebrated beauty of the Parsee race, and the daughter of a wealthy Bombay merchant.   (source)
  • The greater part of the passengers from Brindisi were bound for India some for Bombay, others for Calcutta by way of Bombay, the nearest route thither, now that a railway crosses the Indian peninsula.   (source)
  • She had a hundred and sixty-eight hours in which to reach Bombay, and the sea was favourable, the wind being in the north-west, and all sails aiding the engine.   (source)
  • And he doesn't spare the money on the way, either: he has offered a large reward to the engineer of the Mongolia if he gets us to Bombay well in advance of time.   (source)
  • The distance between Bombay and Calcutta, as the bird flies, is only from one thousand to eleven hundred miles; but the deflections of the road increase this distance by more than a third.   (source)
  • Passepartout, however, had no sooner heard his master's orders on leaving the Mongolia than he saw at once that they were to leave Bombay as they had done Suez and Paris, and that the journey would be extended at least as far as Calcutta, and perhaps beyond that place.   (source)
  • The Mongolia plied regularly between Brindisi and Bombay via the Suez Canal, and was one of the fastest steamers belonging to the company, always making more than ten knots an hour between Brindisi and Suez, and nine and a half between Suez and Bombay.   (source)
  • "Bombay?" cried Passepartout.   (source)
  • As for the wonders of Bombay its famous city hall, its splendid library, its forts and docks, its bazaars, mosques, synagogues, its Armenian churches, and the noble pagoda on Malabar Hill, with its two polygonal towers—he cared not a straw to see them.   (source)
  • 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.   (source)
  • He rather enjoyed the voyage, for he was well fed and well lodged, took a great interest in the scenes through which they were passing, and consoled himself with the delusion that his master's whim would end at Bombay.   (source)
  • Up to his arrival at Bombay, he had entertained hopes that their journey would end there; but, now that they were plainly whirling across India at full speed, a sudden change had come over the spirit of his dreams.   (source)
  • Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied, he would have espied the detective ensconced in a corner of the court-room, watching the proceedings with an interest easily understood; for the warrant had failed to reach him at Calcutta, as it had done at Bombay and Suez.   (source)
  • The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger portion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra.   (source)
  • A tax-collector, on the way to his post at Goa; the Rev. Decimus Smith, returning to his parish at Bombay; and a brigadier-general of the English army, who was about to rejoin his brigade at Benares, made up the party, and, with Mr. Fogg, played whist by the hour together in absorbing silence.   (source)
  • Passepartout thereupon recounted Aouda's history, the affair at the Bombay pagoda, the purchase of the elephant for two thousand pounds, the rescue, the arrest, and sentence of the Calcutta court, and the restoration of Mr. Fogg and himself to liberty on bail.   (source)
  • Send a dispatch to London for a warrant of arrest to be dispatched instantly to Bombay, take passage on board the Mongolia, follow my rogue to India, and there, on English ground, arrest him politely, with my warrant in my hand, and my hand on his shoulder.   (source)
  • Like you, to Bombay.   (source)
  • The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of…   (source)
  • "Inasmuch," resumed the judge, "as the English law protects equally and sternly the religions of the Indian people, and as the man Passepartout has admitted that he violated the sacred pagoda of Malabar Hill, at Bombay, on the 20th of October, I condemn the said Passepartout to imprisonment for fifteen days and a fine of three hundred pounds."   (source)
  • It was really worth considering why this certainly very amiable and complacent person, whom he had first met at Suez, had then encountered on board the Mongolia, who disembarked at Bombay, which he announced as his destination, and now turned up so unexpectedly on the Rangoon, was following Mr. Fogg's tracks step by step.   (source)
  • Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.   (source)
  • In Bombay itself?   (source)
  • To Bombay.   (source)
  • These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and actual arrivals at each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and London—from the 2nd of October to the 21st of December; and giving a space for setting down the gain made or the loss suffered on arrival at each locality.   (source)
  • These descendants of the sect of Zoroaster—the most thrifty, civilised, intelligent, and austere of the East Indians, among whom are counted the richest native merchants of Bombay—were celebrating a sort of religious carnival, with processions and shows, in the midst of which Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines.   (source)
  • I want to tell him that when I was a girl in Hasnapur only playboys in Bombay movies wore bathrobes.†   (source)
  • She arrived on the Bombay—Cochin flight.†   (source)
  • They were thought to be behind the terrible Mumbai massacre of 2008.†   (source)
  • Then the Bombay—Cochin people came out From the cool air into the hot air.†   (source)
  • We had taken a house in Lucknow for a month, hoping to escape the heat in Bombay.†   (source)
  • I sold the tiger's skin for a fortune to a man in Bombay, and he called me brave for it.†   (source)
  • You are scheduled load KM187 series '76 and you'll arrive in Bombay with no trouble.†   (source)
  • It's true that the crackdown in Mumbai drove some brothels underground.†   (source)
  • I stowed away on the Mary Elizabeth in Bombay.†   (source)
  • I am Bombay born and Bombay bred, and what is New York but Mumbai Lite?†   (source)
  • "No one tried to keep Tom imprisoned in Bombay," I say, invoking my brother's name as a last resort.†   (source)
  • My classmate Satish brought these pamphlets back from his holiday in Bombay.†   (source)
  • There ain't no such thing as a free lunch," in Bombay or in Luna.†   (source)
  • Grain barges continued to arrive at Bombay.†   (source)
  • The funeral brought Europeans and Indians from as far away as Bombay and Calcutta to pay tribute.†   (source)
  • The old men smile at me, an English girl lost and alone on Bombay's streets.†   (source)
  • From Bombay, Poona, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Karachi, you name it.†   (source)
  • I am Bombay born and Bombay bred, and what is New York but Mumbai Lite?†   (source)
  • On the screen, Jamal and Salim are sitting atop a Mumbai high-rise, their feet dangling over the side.†   (source)
  • He feels obligated to attend; one of the presenters on the panel, Amit, is a distant cousin who lives in Bombay, whom Gogol has never met.†   (source)
  • So I flew to Bombay.†   (source)
  • "These Bombay mangoes would choke a goat!" he'd say when I brought him the Alphonsos I'd haggled smartly for in the bazaar.†   (source)
  • They were Bombay's "B" efforts at best, commercial failures and quite a few famous flops, burnished again by the dim light of nostalgia.†   (source)
  • When Sophie Mol's plane appeared in the skyblue Bombay—Cochin sky, the crowd pushed against the iron railing to see more of everything.†   (source)
  • The Arrivals Lounge was a press of love and eagerness, because the Bombay—Cochin flight was the flight that all the Foreign Returnees came home on.†   (source)
  • It was called Seven Village Girls Find Seven Boys to Marry, or something like that, but the songs weren't as good as our Bombay ones.†   (source)
  • Adoor Basi, the most popular, best-loved comedian in Malayalam cinema, had just arrived (Bombay–Cochin).†   (source)
  • Darrel stands in the middle of his kitchen, wearing a butcher's apron and holding a bottle of Bombay lime pickle in a hand that's bleeding from where he cut it on the jagged edge of the bottle's tin cap.†   (source)
  • Then she dictated a letter to Annamma Chandy's brother-in-law who was the Regional Manager of Padma Pickles in Bombay.†   (source)
  • "Surely if he was able to turn Nephilim into—into monsters, we ought to be able to find a way to turn them back," said Nasreen Choudhury, the head of the Mumbai Institute, regal in her rune-decorated white sari.†   (source)
  • People in New York, London, Cairo, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Moscow, and other large cities don't expect each other to be the same, and yet these cities function with an extraordinary degree of civility, because it's in the interests—economic, social, and psychological—of the various groups to get along.†   (source)
  • I hired the best tracker in Bombay.†   (source)
  • Yet as a result of crackdowns, in part because of American pressure, the number of prostitutes in central Mumbai fell sharply over several years.†   (source)
  • Mumbai's brothels historically were worse than Kolkata's, and they are famous for the "cage girls" who were held behind bars in brothels.†   (source)
  • Buoyed by Ann's success, the three of us sit up playing hand after hand, wagering wishes like shillings—"I'll see your dream of becoming princess of the Ottoman Empire and I'll raise you one journey into Bombay riding on an elephant's back!"†   (source)
  • The central red-light district of Mumbai may have just six thousand prostitutes today, down from thirty-five thousand a decade ago.†   (source)
  • I'm back on the streets of Bombay, as if I'd never been gone, screaming wildly while the young Indian man pins my flailing arms at my side.†   (source)
  • In Bombay they sprawl on pavements; in Great New York they pack them vertically—not sure anyone sleeps.†   (source)
  • —from "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson CHAPTER ONE JUNE 21, 1895 Bombay, India "PLEASE TELL ME THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE PART OF MY birthday dinner this evening."†   (source)
  • That suggests that there is now less trafficking into Mumbai, which represents at least some success.†   (source)
  • When we flew from Bombay to Agra we got up before dawn and were taken out to field as city was waking.†   (source)
  • Bombay.†   (source)
  • Jet flights from Rome, London, Frankfurt, Nairobi, Cairo, and Bombay to Addis made it easy for tourists to visit.†   (source)
  • While the Sonagachi Project enjoyed some success in curbing AIDS, there is an intriguing contrast with the big-stick approach taken in Mumbai.†   (source)
  • At dawn in Bombay roadways, side pavements, even bridges are covered with tight carpet of human bodies.†   (source)
  • 6 percent of Sonagachi sex workers were infected with HIV, compared to about 50 percent in Mumbai (the city formerly known as Bombay), where there was no sex workers' union.†   (source)
  • India was told to watch certain mountain peaks and outside Bombay harbor—time, same as Great China.†   (source)
  • On Global Giving, for example, we have supported a program to keep runaway girls in Mumbai from entering prostitution, while on Kiva we lent money to a woman making furniture in Paraguay.†   (source)
  • Barges are still arriving at Bombay.†   (source)
  • Down in Bombay they want wheat.†   (source)
  • But the crackdown also made prostitution less profitable for brothel owners, and so the price of a girl bought or sold among Mumbai's brothels tumbled.†   (source)
  • Indeed, at the time the Sonagachi Project began in Kolkata, HIV prevalence among sex workers in Mumbai was already 51 percent and in Kolkata 1 percent, according to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health.†   (source)
  • Bombay was bee-swarms of people.†   (source)
  • At Luna it would be much the way barges are now landed off Bombay, solid-charge retrorockets programmed by ground control—except that it would be much cheaper, two and a half kilometer-seconds change of motion versus eleven-plus, a squared factor of about twenty—but actually even more favorable, as retros are parasitic weight and the payload improves accordingly.†   (source)
  • 6 percent of Sonagachi sex workers were infected with HIV, compared to about 50 percent in Mumbai (the city formerly known as Bombay), where there was no sex workers' union.†   (source)
  • Bombay, maybe.†   (source)
  • Less than that in Bombay.†   (source)
  • The Bombay Green Rocket dropped out of the sky.†   (source)
  • My aunt, Mary Beton, I must tell you, died by a fall from her horse when she was riding out to take the air in Bombay.†   (source)
  • A poor remnant took refuge in India. where they survive to this day as the Parsis ("Persians") of Bombay.†   (source)
  • I'm only trying to gather together what a city-bred man knew of eagles altogether, and it's curious: the eagle of money, the high-flying eagles of Bombay, the NRA eagle with its gear and lightnings, the bird of Jupiter and of nations, of republics as well as of Caesar, of legions and soothsayers, Colonel Julian the Black Eagle of Harlem; also the ravens of Noah and Elijah, which may well have been eagles; the lone eagle, animal president.†   (source)
  • The city papers prate of the competition of Bombay with Manchester and the like.†   (source)
  • Jolly good poems, I'm getting published Bombay side.†   (source)
  • "But she died on leaving Bombay," broke in Adela.†   (source)
  • They had hired him while they were still globe-trotters, at Bombay.†   (source)
  • —and then I will see you off at Bombay.†   (source)
  • The Babu's famous drug-box proved useless, though Kim had restocked it at Bombay.†   (source)
  • In Bombay a new dock-guard, unaware of things, spoke boisterously over his family rice of a strange new custom of the rats.†   (source)
  • They had made such a romantic voyage across the Mediterranean and through the sands of Egypt to the harbour of Bombay, to find only a gridiron of bungalows at the end of it.†   (source)
  • Thus in the course of years he was known successively in Bombay, in Calcutta, in Rangoon, in Penang, in Batavia—and in each of these halting-places was just Jim the water-clerk.†   (source)
  • Moonlit pinnacles rushed up at her like the fringes of a sea; then a brief episode of plain, the real sea, and the soupy dawn of Bombay.†   (source)
  • He re-embarked at Alexandria—bright blue sky, constant wind, clean low coast-line, as against the intricacies of Bombay.†   (source)
  • Its houses, trees and fields were all modelled out of the same brown paste, and the sea at Bombay slid about like broth against the quays.†   (source)
  • Her son couldn't escort her to Bombay, for the local situation continued acute, and all officials had to remain at their posts.†   (source)
  • As she drove through the huge city which the West has built and abandoned with a gesture of despair, she longed to stop, though it was only Bombay, and disentangle the hundred Indias that passed each other in its streets.†   (source)
  • He was over forty when he entered that oddest portal, the Victoria Terminus at Bombay, and—having bribed a European ticket inspector—took his luggage into the compartment of his first tropical train.†   (source)
  • Simla next week, get rid of Antony, a view of Thibet, tiresome wedding bells, Agra in October, see Mrs. Moore comfortably off from Bombay—the procession passed before her again, blurred by the heat, and then she turned to the more serious business of her life at Chandrapore.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXVIII Dead she was—committed to the deep while still on the southward track, for the boats from Bombay cannot point towards Europe until Arabia has been rounded; she was further in the tropics than ever achieved while on shore, when the sun touched her for the last time and her body was lowered into yet another India—the Indian Ocean.†   (source)
  • From Balkh to Bombay men know that rough-ridged print with the old scar running diagonally across it.†   (source)
  • Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well.†   (source)
  • The young Masters Bangles rushed to the window with a vague notion that their father might have arrived from Bombay.†   (source)
  • There were many English and French steamers plowing this narrow passageway, liners going from Suez to Bombay, Calcutta, Melbourne, Réunion Island, and Mauritius; far too much traffic for the Nautilus to make an appearance on the surface.†   (source)
  • Our vessel was a beautiful ship of about four hundred tons, copper-fastened, and built at Bombay of Malabar teak.†   (source)
  • Regent Street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Yankees have often scared the natives.†   (source)
  • Before long Emmy had a visiting-book, and was driving about regularly in a carriage, calling upon Lady Bludyer (wife of Major-General Sir Roger Bludyer, K.C.B., Bengal Army); Lady Huff, wife of Sir G. Huff, Bombay ditto; Mrs. Pice, the Lady of Pice the Director, &c.†   (source)
  • Old Dr. Gulp and his lady from Bloomsbury Square; old Mr. Frowser, the attorney, from Bedford Row, a very great man, and from his business, hand-in-glove with the "nobs at the West End"; old Colonel Livermore, of the Bombay Army, and Mrs. Livermore, from Upper Bedford Place; old Sergeant Toffy and Mrs. Toffy; and sometimes old Sir Thomas Coffin and Lady Coffin, from Bedford Square.†   (source)
  • This was not Ceylon, nor Buddh Gaya, nor Bombay, nor some grass-tangled ruins that he seemed to have stumbled upon two years ago.†   (source)
  • They were camped on a piece of waste ground beside the railway, and, being natives, had not, of course, unloaded the two trucks in which Mahbub's animals stood among a consignment of country-breds bought by the Bombay tram-company.†   (source)
  • From these she heard how soon Smith would be in Council; how many lacs Jones had brought home with him, how Thomson's House in London had refused the bills drawn by Thomson, Kibobjee, and Co., the Bombay House, and how it was thought the Calcutta House must go too; how very imprudent, to say the least of it, Mrs. Brown's conduct (wife of Brown of the Ahmednuggur Irregulars) had been with young Swankey of the Body Guard, sitting up with him on deck until all hours, and losing themselves…†   (source)
  • There is no city—except Bombay, the queen of all—more beautiful in her garish style than Lucknow, whether you see her from the bridge over the river, or from the top of the Imambara looking down on the gilt umbrellas of the Chutter Munzil, and the trees in which the town is bedded.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it was from the South that he came—from south of Tuticorin, whence the wonderful fire-boats go to Ceylon where are priests who know Pali; sometimes it was from the wet green West and the thousand cotton-factory chimneys that ring Bombay; and once from the North, where he had doubled back eight hundred miles to talk for a day with the Keeper of the Images in the Wonder House.†   (source)
  • He had never passed the serai gate since his arrival two days ago, but had been ostentatious in sending telegrams to Bombay, where he banked some of his money; to Delhi, where a sub-partner of his own clan was selling horses to the agent of a Rajputana state; and to Umballa, where an Englishman was excitedly demanding the pedigree of a white stallion.†   (source)
  • Once Mahbub and he went together as far as the beautiful city of Bombay, with three truckloads of tram-horses, and Mahbub nearly melted when Kim proposed a sail in a dhow across the Indian Ocean to buy Gulf Arabs, which, he understood from a hanger-on of the dealer Abdul Rahman, fetched better prices than mere Kabulis.†   (source)
  • From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats .... 7 days From Suez to Bombay, by steamer .... 13 " From Bombay to Calcutta, by rail .... 3 " From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer .... 13 " From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer .... 6 " From Yokohama to San Francisco, by steamer .... 22 " From San Francisco to New York, by rail .... 7 " From New York to London, by steamer and rail .... 9 " —— Total .... 80 days."†   (source)
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