Following the Equator (1897)
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Mark Twain's travel book recounts his 1895-1896 lecture tour through the Pacific, Australia, India, South Africa, and other stops around the British Empire. (Open Library)
Watches
- Waterbury watch
- Twain turns a prize Waterbury watch into a comic set piece after setting it by Pretoria's Parliament House clock and repeatedly mistaking the chiming clock for the faulty watch.
Source text: In a minor tournament I won the prize, which was a Waterbury watch. I put it in my trunk. (Project Gutenberg ebook 2895, Chapter IV)