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On n'est pas Américain sans que la vue de soixante mille dollars vous cause une certaine émotion.

I am no kind of american of any stripe or star, but being offered sixity thpusand dollars would give me a certain emotion too, and the american in question is a welshman from Cardiff, but it is nice to see the prejudice of Americans as obsessed by money to go alongside the gun and shooting mania!

Havi g mussed the mail boat to Liverpool by 45 minutes our hero finds a ship due to sail crom New York to Bordeaux ( close enough, I suppose). Luckily the Captain's surname is "Speedy", so they are sure to make good time

Pages 263-268 an attack on a moving train. It's interesting because it is the kind of scene that looks good on film, but would be needlessly risky and silly to carry out, which itself is interesting (though puzzling) in terms of the racist assumptions involved, ie, if indigenous peoples are that stupid, why is it that they haven't been over powered by a one-legged soldier armed with an empty matchbox?

On ne descend pas, messieurs.
-et pourquoi? Demanda le colonel.
-nous avons vingt minutes de retard, et le train ne s'arrête pas.
-mais je dois me battre avec monsieur.
-je le regrette, répondit l'employé...

-it can be difficult to fight a duel when the train you are travelling on insists on sticking to the timetable

A Mormon missionary gets on the train. He is wearing, among another things, " gants de peau de chien", yuk, what a miserable dog, Grggghrrrr!