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The People of the Abyss

CHAPTER XXVII--THE MANAGEMENT
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But starvation, as a chronic condition, present with a large number of them all the time, is a thing unknown.

Further, they have no debts.
In the United Kingdom, on the rim of the Western Ocean, live the English folk.

They are a consummately civilised people.

Their capital amounts to at least 300 pounds per head.

They gain their food, not by hunting and fishing, but by toil at colossal artifices.


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