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Following the Equator
Part 7

CHAPTER LXII
17/28

I refer to the romantic sojourn of Paul and Virginia here.

It was that story that made Mauritius known to the world, made the name familiar to everybody, the geographical position of it to nobody.
A clergyman was asked to guess what was in a box on a table.

It was a vellum fan painted with the shipwreck, and was "one of Virginia's wedding gifts." April 18.

This is the only country in the world where the stranger is not asked "How do you like this place ?" This is indeed a large distinction.

Here the citizen does the talking about the country himself; the stranger is not asked to help.


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