The Count of Monte Cristo
Describe what the smugglers do (the ones in the ship that picks up Dantes from the abandoned island). (13)
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provide quotes if possible.
From the text:
He had scarcely been a week at Leghorn before the hold of his vessel was filled with printed muslins, contraband cottons, English powder, and tobacco on which the excise had forgotten to put its mark. The master was to get all this out of Leghorn free of duties, and land it on the shores of Corsica, where certain speculators undertook to forward the cargo to France.
The Count of Monte Cristo