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Following the Equator

CHAPTER XLI
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We again offer your Highness our warmest felicitations for the honour that has been conferred on you.

We beg to remain your Highness's obedient servants." Factories, schools, hospitals, reforms.

The prince propagates that kind of things in the modern times, and gets knighthood and guns for it.
After the address the prince responded with snap and brevity; spoke a moment with half a dozen guests in English, and with an official or two in a native tongue; then the garlands were distributed as usual, and the function ended..


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