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<b>Location:</b> 40.8476982, 14.2625999<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> THE wind blew hard the night before we sailed from Naples on the Prinzregent for Mombasa in British East Africa, in October, 1905, so we were not unprepared for the choppy seas that met us in the bay, and broke against the frowning cliffs of Capri as we ploughed along under the ruins of Villa Jove.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Naples<br>
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<b>Date of departure:</b> 5-Oct<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC002" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC002</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> 40.5583344, 14.2622223<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> THE wind blew hard the night before we sailed from Naples on the Prinzregent for Mombasa in British East Africa, in October, 1905, so we were not unprepared for the choppy seas that met us in the bay, and broke against the frowning cliffs of Capri as we ploughed along under the ruins of Villa Jove.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Villa Jove<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC003" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC003</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Calabria<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The breaking waves dashed high on the stern and rock-bound coast of Calabria when we steamed across the Gulf of Salerno.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Calabria<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC004" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC004</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Gulf of Salerno, Camp., Italy<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The breaking waves dashed high on the stern and rock-bound coast of Calabria when we steamed across the Gulf of Salerno.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Gulf of Salerno<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC005" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC005</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> 40.6338005, 14.6027002<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> They beat against the cliffs of lovely Amalfi and flung themselves in great white legions on the more sloping shores of Minori and Maori.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Amalfi<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC006" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC006</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> 40.6512985, 14.6244001<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> They beat against the cliffs of lovely Amalfi and flung themselves in great white legions on the more sloping shores of Minori and Maori.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Minori<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC007" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC007</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> 40.6512985, 14.6427002<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> They beat against the cliffs of lovely Amalfi and flung themselves in great white legions on the more sloping shores of Minori and Maori.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Maori<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC008" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC008</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Suez Canal, Egypt<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> When we first sailed from Naples, there was great uncertainty as to when we should get through the Suez canal.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Suez canal<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC009" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC009</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Port Said, Egypt<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> As we drew near Port Said we noticed an ominous absence of approaching steamers, so we were in a measure prepared for the news we received there that the canal was still closed.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Port Said<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC010" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC010</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Great Bitter Lake, Egypt<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> We met the north-coming steamers in the Bitter Sea.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Bitter Sea<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC011" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC011</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Red Sea<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The Red Sea in October is undeniably hot. But the decks were well shaded with canvas and one could sit with comparative comfort on the breezy side, where the passengers made little groups, reading or chattering or playing cards.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Red Sea<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC012" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC012</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> 13.0036783, 42.739521<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Our next stop was at Asab, a dreary port in Abyssinia belonging to Italy, where we collected a strange lot of three hundred warriors from the desert, Nubians, Somalis, and Soudanese to fight a native uprising in German East Africa.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Asab<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC013" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC013</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Gees Gwardafuy, Somalia<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The rounding of Capes Guardafui and Ras Hafun - the two easternmost points of Africa - is a very difficult bit of seamanship.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Capes Guardafui<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC015" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC015</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Xaafuun Cape, Somalia<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The rounding of Capes Guardafui and Ras Hafun - the two easternmost points of Africa - is a very difficult bit of seamanship.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Ras Hafun<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC016" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC016</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> 12.2028379, 52.226429<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> There is no lighthouse on any point of land; the shore is wild, rocky and inhabited by fierce savages; and the currents set strongly toward the land in many places, while the island of Abd al Kuri forbids a wide berth being given to these promontories.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Abd al Kuri<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC017" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC017</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Mombasa, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The tail end of the monsoon, the great southerly trade-wind of the Indian Ocean, molested the calm of our last days before arriving at Mombasa; but only a day late we reached this port.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Mombasa<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC018" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC018</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Kilindini, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The harbor by the town being too shallow for our large ship, we glided by a well-buoyed channel around to the inner side of the island to Kilindini.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Kilindini<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Web Link:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC019" target="_blank">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kirkland/highways/highways.html#GC019</a><br>
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<b>Location:</b> Athi Plains, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Gradually mounting we came to the bare, rolling stretches of the Athi Plain.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Athi Plain<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Nandi Escarpment, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> When we reached the Nandi and Mau plateaux, however, the landscape changed, and green fields (some under a rude kind of native cultivation) and dense woods made a grateful change.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Nandi and Mau plateaux<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Nairobi, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The largest interior town in East Africa is Nairobi, five thousand four hundred and fifty feet above sea-level, and a very popular place, though the meal we got there at the station restaurant was not as good as those at either Voi the day before or at Nakuru that same evening.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Nairobi<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Voi, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The largest interior town in East Africa is Nairobi, five thousand four hundred and fifty feet above sea-level, and a very popular place, though the meal we got there at the station restaurant was not as good as those at either Voi the day before or at Nakuru that same evening.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Voi<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Location:</b> -0.1, 36.0999985<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> As we approached the edges of the great Rift Valley, the scenery grew positively familiar.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Rift Valley<br>
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<b>Location:</b> -1.75668, 37.713501<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The divide which we crossed before coming to the Rift is eight thousand feet above the sea; and Mau, a resort, near its summit, is much recommended to sufferers from tuberculosis.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Mau<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Mau Escarpment, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The descent from the Mau Escarpment to the great Rift Valley was wonderful, both on account of scenery and from an engineering standpoint.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Mau Escarpment<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Mount Londiani Forest, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Shimmering through the splendor of mist and sunshine, cone-shaped mountains of volcanic origin rose to the west, chief among which was Mount Londiani,<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Mount Londiani<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Naivasha, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> toward the south, like a phantom lake, Naivasha shone out of the pale pink and violet distances<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Naivasha<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Longonot, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Also Mount Longonot reared its pointed head beyond the glimmering lakes.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Mount Longonot<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Nandi Escarpment, Kenya<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Nandi Escarpment<br>
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<b>Location:</b> -0.09851, 34.7672615<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> It was about nine o'clock when our train pulled into the station at Port Florence, but we had been up since sunrise, hanging out of the car windows watching the strange tribes through whose country we were travelling.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Port Florence<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Lake Victoria<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The first glimpse of Victoria Nyanza that one gets is of the long arm it stretches into the northeast and which is called Kavirondo Bay.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Victoria Nyanza<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Entebbe, Uganda<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> It was only when the settlement of Entebbe was well in sight that one melancholy passenger was able to rouse up, put on a hat and an all-hiding veil to face the welcome awaiting us.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Entebbe<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Sese Islands, Uganda<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Out on the sky-line, twenty miles or more away, lie the Sesse Islands, the abode of the tsetse fly, and now almost depopulated by the sleeping-sickness.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Sesse Archipelago<br>
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<b>Location:</b> 0.4312, 33.2100983<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> three o'clock that afternoon we steamed into the pretty, almost enclosed harbor of Jinga.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Jinga<br>
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<b>Location:</b> 0.63278, 33.0499992<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> The principal sight of Jinja is the Falls of Ripon, the place where the waters of this great lake slip over the rocks and start on their way via Uganda, the Albert Nyanza, the Soudan, and Egypt to the Mediterranean.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Falls of Ripon<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Winam, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Before sunset we came in sight of the wild, bare and lonely mountains which guard the entrance to Kavirondo Bay (called by some Kisumu Bay).<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Kavirondo Bay<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> When we woke up the next morning we found ourselves moored alongside the clamorous dock at Port Florence, where stood the little train waiting for us and our luggage.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Port Florence<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Nakuru, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> At sunset, at Nakuru, a station in the Nandi country, I got out to walk up and down during the halt the train made there, and was much interested in the vast herds of cattle which the English had captured from the Nandis and driven in to the various stations.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Nakuru<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Simba, South Africa<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> This station, curiously enough, was Simba - the name meaning, as I have said before, "lion" - and was the scene of the famous lion story of East Africa.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Simba<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Mombasa<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Frere Town, Kenya<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Freretown<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Dar es Salaam, Tanzania<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> It is only a few hours' trip from Zanzibar to Dar Es Salaam. The sun was half-way to the western horizon when we steamed into the large, entirely landlocked harbor of the capital of German East Africa, which is reached by a very narrow, winding channel.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Dar Es Salaam<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Beira, Mozambique<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Seven years ago, when the railway to Salisbury was being built, Beira was an important, hustling, bustling port of entry.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Beira<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Maputo, Mozambique<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Lorenco Marques<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Delagoa Bay, on which the town in situated, is a fine harbor, and docks have been built alongside of which even the largest ships can unload.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Delagoa Bay<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Emgwenya, South Africa<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> We roused ourselves at early dawn the following morning to look out at the wild, weird, misty mountains that mark a remarkable ascent to the high veldt at a place called "Waterfallboven."<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Waterfallboven<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Pretoria, South Africa<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> As we passed Pretoria, deep embedded in its heavy foliage, we noted the extensive fortifications built by the Boers, frowning from lofty kopjes and commanding a great tract of territory.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Pretoria<br>
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<b>Location:</b> -25.9884167, 27.6051769<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Long before we got to Johannesburg we saw the tall chimneys and building of the mines which stretch along the famous gold-bearing reef, or Rand, for fifty miles and more, with Johannesburg in the centre of the line; while the huge piles of "tailings" gleamed like snow in the afternoon sun.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Rand<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Johannesburg, South Africa<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Johannesburg<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Indian Ocean<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> As we steamed up the glassy stretches of the Indian Ocean with this motley boat-load, and, leaning on the ship's railing, I heard the speech of most of the civilized nations of Europe, mingling with the many African tongues from below, while dogs barked, monkeys jabbered, parrots screamed, oxen lowed, hens cackled, sheep bleated, and pigeons cooed, it seemed as if the ship were a travelling Berlitz School of Languages, with a barnyard attachment, or a second and more wonderful Noah's Ark.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Indian Ocean<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Mozambique<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> It was afternoon when we glided into the harbor of Mozambique, rounding the point where the old fort rises from the green waters.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Mozambique<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Zanzibar, Tanzania<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> saw us heading for Zanzibar. We passed at rare intervals Arab dhows scudding along under their clumsy sails. It<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Zanzibar<br>
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<b>Location:</b> -6.0999999, 39.2167015<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Bu Bu Bu is a settlement of low, straw huts in a shady grove of cocoanut-palms on the island of Zanzibar and is the terminus of a new and most important railroad, six and a half miles long, just completed, having been built by an American company.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Bu Bu Bu<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Tanga, Tanzania<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> We stopped at Zanzibar for a couple of hours to pick up the mails and some belated cargo, and then headed for Tanga.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Tanga<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Mombasa, Kenya<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> FOR the third time we came to Mombasa. The hottest of the hot season was in full sway.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Mombasa<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Aden, Yemen<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> At Aden we drove up to see the tanks, a disappointing spectacle, though the drive was interesting, passing as it does through a narrow gorge of red, overhanging rocks, and coming out on a flat, sandy, glaring stretch, where the low, plaster houses seem like mere excressences.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Aden<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Suez<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Port Said<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> A lively blow in the Mediterranean greeted us as we left the canal.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Mediterranean<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Messina, Sic., Italy<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> With slight intermission this kept up the four and a half days it took us to reach Naples, though the morning was a brilliant one when we steamed through the straits of Messina.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Messina<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> To the left &Aelig;tna, still snow-topped, overhung everything in Sicily.<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Taormina, Sic., Italy<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> We saw Taormina the beautiful, gleaming half-way up the charming hillside to which it clings, and we noted many other landmarks.<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Stromboli, Italy<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Vesuvius<br>
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<b>Date of arrival:</b> <a href="4/4/06" target="_blank">4/4/06</a><br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Resina<br>
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<b>Location:</b> 40.803299, 14.3367004<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> When we got as far as Resina, which is built above the site of Herculaneum, we turned into a little open square whence we had an uninterrupted view of the mountain from its base to is terrible summit.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Herculaneum<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Location:</b> 40.7514, 14.4546003<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> We went one day to Torre Annunziata to see the place where the mighty flood of lava had stopped just at the door of the church.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Torre Annunziata<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Location:</b> 40.5489235, 14.2310247<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> We began to long for sunshine and normal sensations, so finally, on Easter Sunday, we went to Capri, where from our balconies, across a lavender carpet of wistaria in fullest bloom, we could look over the sea to the terrible and still belching mountain.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Capri<br>
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<b>Traveller:</b> Caroline Kirkland<br>
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<b>Location:</b> -33.8671875, 18.4515629<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Table Bay, as the harbor of Cape Town is called, is one of the most beautiful harbors in the world.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Table Bay<br>
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<b>Location:</b> Table Mountain, South Africa<br>
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<b>Quotation:</b> Flat-topped Table Mountain, leaning over the city with massive, frowning ramparts, is very impressive.<br>
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<b>Original text:</b> Table Mountain<br>
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