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The capitals of the globe-and also the less important towns, and even the humbler villages-were, as a rule, waiting for the result in a paroxysm of terror. The newspapers took care that the exact moment corresponding to midnight at Kilimanjaro should be thoroughly well known.
The Sun travels a degree in four minutes, and the times given by the newspapers for some of the cities was as follows: -