At Fiume, when the train slowed down, I saw Rupert waiting on the platform.
Why waste time learning where Tripoli and Fiume are, when you can turn to a map of Africa and spot them in a moment?
The Fiume Salso was also called Himera, and both rivers taken to be one.
Fiume is just opposite Ancona on the other side of the gulf.
He found the man he wanted in Mr. Whitehead, who was at that time manager of an engineering establishment at Fiume.