Excerpt from Around the World With a King

I took his remark as an idle fancy which would quickly be replaced by other similar ones. But as we rode into the city I said: If your Majesty makes a tour of the world, you will be the first sovereign of the earth who has ever travelled around it, and your subjects should erect a high monument of lava stones on the crown of Punch Bowl 1 with this inscription upon it.

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