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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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r track, the Channel Squadron is seen emerging from the haze on the horizon. It bears down upon us rapidly, in the aiation of two columns in line ahead, firing a salute ; I when close to the Ophir, the stately vessels turn in half a circle so as to form a guard of half the each side of the yacht. It is a magnifi- unfortunately few of the party are on 0 see it, for it takes place two hours before the ranged. The wind has now shifted to the east, and the whole almost be called a gale. DVLIMOD VimUQ QMA DrAlX 3HT .8CIAOJI HTUOM^AY .;; are c &m& lt;io swr GflErffiiprav must be saidg waves, and ships veryer we sight to port the light-•If and the Seven Stones, and to star-red light, which is said to be on the Scilly Later we see the light at the Lands and even perceive dimly the outline of the Cornish 31// October.- jiome . 1 straight for Portsmouth, for we are before our time, and we arrive we are e: the meet their R il arran ;0re we we might have was to nautical reasons, thamnication vviti
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Image: Yarmouth Roads xiii HOMEWARD BOUND 437 Majesty, by wireless telegraphy, it is finally decided that we shall go on to the Solent and anchor off Yarmouth. When we arrive there soon after lunch, it is blowing so hard that communication with the land by any other means than wireless telegraphy is impossible ; and when Mr. Kenneth Anderson, the Agent of the Orient Company, who has come up from Plymouth on board one of the cruisers with the laudable intention of replenishing our larder, attempts to come on board the Ophir, he falls into the sea and has a narrow escape from drowning. An officer who gallantly jumps in after him is carried away by the strong current, and has an equally narrow escape. From the deck of the Ophir we watch these incidents with intense excitement. Two boats with some bluejackets in them, driven by the combined force of wind and current toward the mouth of the Solent, are finally recovered with the aid of a steam-launch. In the evening the Duke receives from the King a message informing him of t

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