Jules Verne’s 1873 novel describes the adventures of Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman who travels around the world. According to the story, Fogg completes the circumnavigation in eighty days and returns to London. The author provides detailed narration of the journey’s events. Verne mentions that Fogg spends a sum of 19,000 pounds during his trip. The article points out that the exact nature of that expenditure cannot be verified. It raises the question of whether the figure reported by Verne is accurate. The discussion ties these narrative details to the broader economic aspects of migration.