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A project had to be carried through regardless of expense. It applied to the Cape-to-Cairo dream just as it applied to every other enterprise with which he was associated. The all-rail route would cost billions upon billions, although now that German prestige in Africa is ended it would not be a physical and political impossibility.
One of the construction gang said, carelessly: "No all-rail route to Altruria, I suppose?" "No," answered Homos, "it's a far sea voyage." "Well, I shouldn't mind working my passage, if you think they'd let me stay after I got there." "Ah, you mustn't go to Altruria. You must let Altruria come to you" returned Homos, with that confounded smile of his that always won my heart.
A modification of the original plan into a combination rail and river scheme permits the consummation of the vision of thirty years ago. The southern end is all-rail mainly because the Union of South Africa and Rhodesia are civilized and prosperous countries.
The building of the link north of Lake Superior, necessary for all-rail connection between East and West on Canadian territory, had been indefinitely postponed. Something had been done, it is true. Manitoba was being linked up with the East by a road south to Minnesota and by another line to the head of Lake Superior, and a start had been made in British Columbia.
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