Stas calculated that this would require two days, and his calculation appeared accurate, for on the third day at night he received from his father, who was already at Medinet, the following message: The tents are ready.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
But according to the calculation of the Swiss they were over six hundred and twenty miles from the ocean, and that in a direct line; then Mombasa being situated farther south, the goal was still further; therefore, the entire journey would require over three months.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Every calculation in this Almanac is based on time at Greenwich, i.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper