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author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4
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  One is in honor of white men who fell in defence of law and order against fanaticism and barbarism. It is a monument erected by white men to Maoris who fell fighting with the whites and against their own people, in the Maori war.


id: 5809
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 2
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  You saw that there was a supernatural property in the hair of Samson; for you perceived that when his hair was gone he was as other men. A village of sheet iron huts and clapboard sheds sprang up in the sand, and in these wigwams fashion made display; richly-dressed ladies played on costly pianos, London swells in evening dress and patent-leather boots were abundant, and this fine society drank champagne, and in other ways conducted itself in this capital of humble sheds as it had been accustomed to do in the aristocratic quarters of the metropolis of the world.


id: 5810
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 3
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  I saw that with New Zealand gone, he was a Samson shorn of his locks; he was as other men. Here extends mile after mile of primeval forest where perhaps foot of white man has never trod--interminable vistas where the eucalyptus trees rear their lofty trunks and spread forth their lanky limbs, from which the red gum oozes and hangs in fantastic pendants like crimson stalactites; ravines along the sides of which the long-bladed grass grows rankly; level untimbered plains alternating with undulating tracts of pasture, here and there broken by a stony ridge, steep gully, or dried-up creek.


id: 5808
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 1
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  For instance, many of their friends had been devoured by sharks; the sharks, in their turn, were caught and eaten by other men; later, these men were captured in war, and eaten by the enemy. The loneliness, the solemnity, the beauty, and the deep repose of this wilderness have a charm which is all their own for the bruised spirit of men who have fought and failed in the struggle for life in the great world; and for men who have been hunted out of the great world for crime; and for other men who love an easy and indolent existence; and for others who love a roving free life, and stir and change and adventure; and for yet others who love an easy and comfortable career of trading and money-getting, mixed with plenty of loose matrimony by purchase, divorce without trial or expense, and limitless spreeing thrown in to make life ideally perfect.


id: 5814
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 7
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  The capitalists and other chief men of Johannesburg were fretting under various political and financial burdens imposed by the State (the South African Republic, sometimes called the Transvaal) and desired to procure by peaceful means a modification of the laws. Mr. Cecil Rhodes, Dr. Jameson, and others responsible for the Raid, have testified before the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry in London, and so have Mr. Lionel Phillips and other Johannesburg Reformers, monthly-nurses of the Revolution which was born dead.


id: 5813
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 6
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  For India has been a fertile breeding-ground of such men, and remains so; great men, both in war and in the civil service, and as modest as great. Sometimes he sees a prince and denies himself to a pauper; at other times he receives the pauper and turns the prince away.


id: 5812
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 5
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  And here and there, in the midst of this hurly-burly, and seemingly undisturbed by it, sat great groups of natives on the bare stone floor,--young, slender brown women, old, gray wrinkled women, little soft brown babies, old men, young men, boys; all poor people, but all the females among them, both big and little, bejeweled with cheap and showy nose-rings, toe-rings, leglets, and armlets, these things constituting all their wealth, no doubt. He accepted that trust, good man; and so we know what went with the traveler.


