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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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ix WESTERN AUSTRALIA 321 original programme, from the railway station, as if wehad just arrived by train from Fremantle ; and at a standin one of the principal streets we halt for nearly anhour to see the procession of the Friendly and TradesSocieties, which resembles closely the similar displaysthat we have seen in other towns. A new feature isa group of Afghan camel-drivers, who live and thrivein the waterless districts of the interior ; but it is tothe Chinese that belong the honours of the day. JohnChinaman always dearly loves a show, and is quiteready to pay for it handsomely. To-day he has sur-passed himself, and extorts admiration even from hisEuropean fellow - townsmen, who usually regard himwith no very friendly feelings, because he has a habitof working for low wages, saving money, and at theend of a few years carrying off his savings to his nativeland. In a country where the working-men like tolive comfortably, and consider seven shillings per diemas the living wage, such a

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