Identifier: webofempirediary00wall (find matches)
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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x MAURITIUS AND SOUTH AFRICA 339 mile from the shore ; and here the Ophir is to remaintill our departure the day after to-morrow, because sheis rather too big to enter the port comfortably. Happily,the sea is fairly calm, so there is no danger of ourhaving to be swung aboard the tug in a basket, anuncomfortable, undignified mode of transhipment whichhas often to be used at this port. After receivingofficial visits from the Governor, Sir Henry MCallum,and the Prime Minister, Sir Albert Hime, their RoyalHighnesses go ashore in a small steamer, preceded bythe Thrush, a gunboat once commanded by the Duke,and are received with the customary formalities, withwhich we are all becoming very familiar. Despitethe war, and perhaps partly on account of it, Durbanis evidently a thriving place. Its streets are broad andregularly built, and it has constructed recently a fineembankment and boulevard along the end of the inlet,which has been transformed at great expense into aharbour. Its population i

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