Blue Book p. 86 - Meme
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1. Grab the nearest book with a blue cover.
2. Open the book to page 86.
3. Find the first full paragraph.
4. Post the text in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find -- just the closest blue book.
George Dixwell's move to Macao proved timely. That same month, after Chinese authorities complained about blatant smuggling, the British consul dismantled the opium receiving station at Whampoa, twelve miles below Canton, and ordered British-owned vessels out of the Pearl River. The opium receiving vessels responded by moving to outer anchorages 20 to 30 miles south of the Pearl River delta. In anticipation of this dislocation, the Frolic's first shipment of opium was directed to Dixwell in Macao. When the Frolic arrived, Dixwell had just returned from a trip to Shanghai aboard the Dart. There he had personally "worked off" the old stock of Malwa opium Harding had stubbornly hoarded almost to the point of disaster. Of the 472 chests on the Frolic consigned to the Heards, Dixwell shipped 250 to Shanghai on the Dart and sold the remainder in Canton. - footnotes not included. Thomas N. Layton, The Voyage of the 'Frolic': New England Merchants and the Opium Trade (Stanford University Press 1997).
sonicbunny ;-P1. Grab the nearest book with a blue cover.
2. Open the book to page 86.
3. Find the first full paragraph.
4. Post the text in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find -- just the closest blue book.
George Dixwell's move to Macao proved timely. That same month, after Chinese authorities complained about blatant smuggling, the British consul dismantled the opium receiving station at Whampoa, twelve miles below Canton, and ordered British-owned vessels out of the Pearl River. The opium receiving vessels responded by moving to outer anchorages 20 to 30 miles south of the Pearl River delta. In anticipation of this dislocation, the Frolic's first shipment of opium was directed to Dixwell in Macao. When the Frolic arrived, Dixwell had just returned from a trip to Shanghai aboard the Dart. There he had personally "worked off" the old stock of Malwa opium Harding had stubbornly hoarded almost to the point of disaster. Of the 472 chests on the Frolic consigned to the Heards, Dixwell shipped 250 to Shanghai on the Dart and sold the remainder in Canton. - footnotes not included. Thomas N. Layton, The Voyage of the 'Frolic': New England Merchants and the Opium Trade (Stanford University Press 1997).
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