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and make a day's excursion of it, instead of rushing through it in a motor in a little under two hours. 

Why don't people, instead of going to the same place in Europe every year, come down to South Africa and see this country? It must be only because they don't know how beautiful the Cape is. 

We sailed out into the Southeaster at five, and I looked a long time astern, 'til the mountain faded away in the mist above the horizon. I wouldn't have missed the Cape for a good deal nor would all those 

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others who come out and go home through the Red Sea every time, if only they knew what lower Africa held. 

Now we've got to settle down and view the sea for fourteen solid days, with not a speck of land to break the horizon. We can afford to take it easy for a while.

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16th. Which is the first day out. A heavy sea off the port quarter all day long, which made her roll considerably. I must have got my sea-legs, by now, for it didn't upset me at all. There are only thirty of us, it turns out, in the saloon. 

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