File:World According to Kruger cartoon, 1898.jpg

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Afrikaans: 'n Spotprent van 1898 getiteld: "Die Wêreld volgens Kruger". Paul Kruger, die president van die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, het geglo dat die aarde plat is. Die Amerikaanse seiljagvaarder Joshua Slocum het tydens sy eenmanseiljagvaart om die wêreld in Suid-Afrika aangedoen en is aan Kruger voorgestel. Die president het Slocum se onderneming egter as "Onmoontlik! Onmoontlik!" getakseer. In sy terugblik op sy seereis om die wêreld het Slocum hierdie insident met behae aangehaal.
English: 1898 cartoon depicting "The World According to Kruger". Paul Kruger, the President of the South African Republic (or Transvaal), believed the world was flat. Joshua Slocum, an American sailor, was attempting to become the first man to circumnavigate the world solo. When Slocum was presented to Kruger during his stopover in South Africa, the President declared such an undertaking "Impossible! Impossible!" Slocum recalled the incident fondly in his memoir of the journey around the world.
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Source Reproduced on page 244 of Sailing Alone Around The World by en:Joshua Slocum. New York: The Century Co, 1901. Source given as the Cape Town Owl of March 5 1898, "in connection with an item about Captain Slocum's trip to Pretoria".
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