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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: S. P. Hall 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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ii FROM PORTSMOUTH TO MALTA 41 torch-bearers, and when the National Anthem is succeeded by the plaintive strains of Auld Lang Syne the thousands of naming, sputtering torches are wavedup and down, keeping time with the music. Outside the two forts which guard the entrance of the harbour our two cruisers, the Andromeda and Diana, are waiting for us with their dazzling search-lights pointing east-wards at different elevations. Before rounding Fort Ricasoli to steer an eastward course, we take a last long look behind us, and see the great harbour still a mass of flame. Altogether a scene of which no pen-and-ink description can convey any adequate idea ! It is a thing to see and remember. Those who said we should have a send-off such as Malta had never seen before were not, I think, guilty of exaggeration. PART III From Malta to Ceylon March 28 to April 16 43 From Malta to Ceylon Thursday, i%th March,—To-day we have a grey sky with intervals of sunshine, a cool breeze, and along swell from the nor

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