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Title: The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, ill Martino, Eduardo de, d. 1912
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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AL HIGHNESSES CHILDREN PS . irection of the Cape ofirn inland by a pass between theid Table Mountain, and descend on Capethe top of the pass we stop for a little,mg of Fin go Kaffirs w the road ■r~danee in honour of theIn the evening there is as usuGovernment House. These entertainmev.regularly that I sometimes forget to accounts which we receive here of thiand prospects g£ British trade are more en-ng than in some of the Colonies we have visited ;editions created by the war are so abnormal v conclusions as ;icri SSm&i otuaAH io KoiTATwaaajM .kwot mho .yc W3MCIJIH3 c33323WHOIH JAiO.U ffi&T ;:ed chiefly1 he railways throughoutlarge quantity of new rolling-lie English manufacturers could notco deliver it within thr the tenders were placed in the Un;erica, we are told, sec le than in Enghv m- nmodate then rapidly conditions. Happily, the people at e waking up and becoming a little less methods of doing busint —Our last day in South Africa.Lady Hely-Hutchinson and the1 Highne
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x MAURITIUS AND SOUTH AFRICA 355 special train to Simonstown. At Admiralty House,close to the landing-stage, fourteen Boer prisoners fromthe camp which we visited on Sunday are allowed topay their respects — tall, fine-looking men, and welldressed. Drawn up in the garden, they salute respect-fully, and when asked whether they understand Englishthey all reply in the affirmative. The Duke andDuchess shake hands with them, and, after thankingthem for the little gifts received on Sunday, express thehope that they will soon be restored to their homesand families. At 2 oclock the Ophir slips her moorings and sailsalong the coast towards the Cape of Good Hope. Inabout an hour we round the bold, rocky headland,surmounted by a lighthouse. Below it, at a consider-able distance from the shore, is a long, dangerous reef,over which the heaving swell from the south-westbreaks in masses of sparkling foam. Before sunset wehave taken our last look of Table Mountain, the LionsHead, and Robben Island,

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