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Following the Equator

CHAPTER XXXVII
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There's a plenty of these 'rickshas, and the tariff is incredibly cheap.
I was in Cairo years ago.

That was Oriental, but there was a lack.

When you are in Florida or New Orleans you are in the South--that is granted; but you are not in the South; you are in a modified South, a tempered South.

Cairo was a tempered Orient--an Orient with an indefinite something wanting.

That feeling was not present in Ceylon.


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