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They were all attached to the Loo-chee custom-house, and the officer who boarded us was le chef de la douane.

I am not in love with the douane.

But I could not bring myself to believe that it would get me through the passport office, the douane, and the medical station at the entrance to the Bosphorus.

After all, the lad was not much better paid than the porte-faix of the douane, who had attacked me only with the smell of garlic and tobacco, issuing from their mouths together with bad French.

We were stopt at the gate; for every gate is a douane, as all provisions pay a tax on entering the city, except bread, corn, and flour, which receive a premium: even one of my trunks was opened.