Around the World in Eighty Days, Chapter 7 summary
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In Chapter 7, Phileas Fogg obtains a passport stamp at Suez despite Fix’s attempt to keep him there until an arrest warrant arrives from London. Fix decides to seek information from Passepartout, while Fogg returns to the Mongolia and records that his journey remains on schedule.
What happens
- Fix asks the consul not to stamp the suspected robber’s passport, but the consul refuses to reject a genuine document.
- Phileas Fogg arrives with Passepartout and requests a stamp as proof that he passes through Suez.
- The consul stamps the passport and describes Fogg as apparently honest, but Fix remains suspicious.
- Fix leaves to find Passepartout, whom he considers more likely to talk than his master.
- Fogg returns to his cabin, checks his detailed travel record, and eats breakfast without exploring the town.
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Fix distrusts the document as a safeguard against crime. The consul nevertheless insists that suspicion gives him no right to refuse a genuine passport.
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Why does Fogg want the consul to stamp his passport?
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