[Following the Equator by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookFollowing the Equator CHAPTER XIII 4/27
The Governor will be in England.
He always is.
The continent has four or five governors, and I do not know how many it takes to govern the outlying archipelago; but anyway you will not see them.
When they are appointed they come out from England and get inaugurated, and give a ball, and help pray for rain, and get aboard ship and go back home.
And so the Lieutenant-Governor has to do all the work. I was in Australasia three months and a half, and saw only one Governor. The others were at home. The Australasian Governor would not be so restless, perhaps, if he had a war, or a veto, or something like that to call for his reserve-energies, but he hasn't.
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