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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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wend our devious way southward among the islands of the Dutch Indies, most of them with uncouth names unfamiliar to European ears. First we pass through the Rhio Straits,a narrow channel with rather intricate navigation. On both sides we see a low shore, with tropical vegetation down to the waters edge, and hills in the background. 16. RHIO STRAITS JAPANESE CRUISERS SALUTING THE OPHIR EMPIRE re due. That his life lieve. Was heent wh Mr. Birch, i airs- i I ding the superstitions of the y have continued my researches; of these competent and amiably ritlemen, but time presses. Today port of Albany in Western Their Royal astir.8TLA£T8 OIHJI ,di AHAO 3HT OT4ITUJA8 gH33IUiT0 383^&fj >our, Ophir; and as warships fire a Royal row the local press will publish a letter nor in which the D.he Straits Se;specially aesses ; it have been e hem by ommum we have to wend ourrd among the islands of the Dutch with uncouth names unfamiliar ss through the Rhicer intricate navigate with tropnhills in the ..
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iv FROM CEYLON TO AUSTRALIA 107 Here we meet two fine Japanese cruisers, the Matsushima and the Hashidate. They fire a Royal salute in passing; and as the Ophir has nothing in the way of artillery except a little old-fashioned brass cannon, the duty offering a salute in return is left to our two escorting cruisers. At sunset the squadron is stopped, and we have on board the Ophir a very impressive ceremony — the burial of a stoker who died early this morning. There is a muster of all hands, and the band advances, with muffled drums, from the stern along the promenade deck, playing Chopins Funeral March, and followed by the funeral procession. The body, sewn up in a hammock and covered with a Union Jack, on which has been placed a wreath of flowers, is borne by six stokers, his messmates, and is laid down on the accommodation-ladder platform at right-angles to the bulwarks. The chaplain reads the burial service, and as soon as he has pronounced the words, we commit the body to the deep, the Union

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