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The Rhodes Colossus: Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo.
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Punch, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20759/20759-h/20759-h.htm
Date

Published December 10th 1892
Author

Edward Linley Sambourne
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