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Title: Travel letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937
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Publisher: Topeka, KS : Crane & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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only 35,000. We mod-erns have more effective weapons than the ancients, butseem afraid to use them. The modern man has moresense than bravery. The old savage man had a foolnotion that it was bravery to fight for a ruler, butmodern man has discovered that bravery is to fightfor himself, and meet his ordinary difficulties with pa-tience and fairness. The prizefighter is brave in thathe is able to stand a great deal of punishment, but inprivate life he is not very nice, and often keeps a saloonand whips his wife. ... At dinner, Mr. Connellalso told me that in Australia, where the women havefull suffrage, the wives of the workingmen often voteagainst their husbands. In a certain election of 1911,the Labor party demanded the adoption of a measurethat would result in many strikes and much disturb-ance. It was believed that the measure would carryby a large majority, but the wives of the labor mengenerally voted for peace, and the measure demandedby their husbands was defeated by two to one.
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NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, AND AFRICA. 213 Sunday, March 2.—I passed out of sight of land atAdelaide, South Australia, at 7: 20 on the evening ofFebruary 12, and picked it up again at 7 oclock thismorning, when I awoke and looked out of the windowto see how the weather was. The land was SouthAfrica. The voyage we have just completed takes thepassenger out of sight of land longer than any othernow being made in steamships. There are longer voy-ages, but on none of them is the passenger out of sightof land for eighteen days. And during the eighteendays we did not see a ship; no signs of life whatever,except a few birds and a few fiying-fish. It was a mo-notonous, dreary experience I do not care to repeat.. . . South Africa, as seen in the vicinity of Dur-ban, is mountainous, and the mountains are coveredwith verdure. . . . By 8: 30, Durban could beplainly seen, and it did not look unlike a portion ofSydney, with its residences scattered over the hills,and almost every house covered with

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