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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: 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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p ought to be. They haveonly one defect—that of being so far forward thatthe occupants must get more than their fair share ofthe discomfort necessarily caused by the pitching ofthe vessel in rough weather. This defect was foreseen,but it could not be obviated without pulling the shipto pieces, because the whole of the space amidships isoccupied by the spacious and lofty dining-saloon, witha vaulted roof of stained glass, capable of being trans-formed quickly into a concert-room or theatre. Belowthe dining-saloon, on the main deck, arranged roundan open space which has been christened HouseholdSquare, are the sleeping-cabins of the suite, whichdiffer very little from the cabins of an ordinary liner ;and farther aft some of us have cabins fitted up asoffices. In the drawing-room and smoking-room is a 4. LEAVING PORTSMOUTH yv i tempell, wh■mfortable.on for is bulkheadsId float (y with any HTUOM2T£0<I OMIVA3J ^ thatshare of i roundi House!of the Siibins of an ord;have cabinid smo;
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ii FROM PORTSMOUTH TO MALTA 19 library of 600 volumes, containing works of the mostvaried kind, from light novels to ponderous encyclo-paedias. Besides the officers of the Royal Navy, a list ofwhom is given in Appendix A, the Ophir carries125 bluejackets, 100 marines, 7 engineer officers, withan engine-room complement of 88 ; 37 bandsmen, apurser, 50 stewards, some 30 private servants, 20 boys,9 cooks, 3 bakers, 2 butchers, 1 laundryman and hiswife, 1 printer, and 2 hairdressers. All told, there arenearly 550 souls on board. Monday, iSt/i March.—At breakfast-time we see onthe port-quarter, twenty-five or thirty miles off, a lowrange of hills in the hazy distance. This is the north-west corner of Spain, so we may congratulate ourselveson having crossed the Bay without experiencing any ofits traditional terrors. Early in the forenoon the hillsdisappear, and we see no more land all day. The swellincreases, and in the evening the crest of a wave breaksinto the dining-saloon, and bespatt

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