Komani, formerly Queenstown, is a town in the middle of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, roughly halfway between the smaller towns of Cathcart and Sterkstroom. It is currently the commercial, administrative and educational centre of the surrounding farming district.

Its former nickname, "Rose Capital of South Africa", comes from the large gardens and open places for flowers, (especially roses), in and around the town.

Clemens reached Port Louis April 15, 1896 and went ashore the next morning.  They took a train to the resort town of Curepipe and stayed there for nearly two weeks.  They sailed via Mozambique for South Africa April 28th aboard the Arundel Castle.

February 15, 1896: At Siliguri...they changed to one of the canvas-covered, six-passenger cars which hugged the two-foot-gauge rails of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. For about seven miles they darted through rice fields and tea gardens to Sukna, where the 7,000 ascent began. The miniature train slowed to less than ten miles an hour as it passed through forest and wild botanical gardens, rounded countless goompties (zigzags), crept under cliffs, and edged along chasms.

February 5 Wednesday – In Benares The Clemens family was up at 6 a.m. and spent the whole day sightseeing [Feb. 8 to Rogers]. It was likely, then, that this was the day they hired a “commodious hand-propelled ark” and took several trips up and down the Ganges.
(Fears)

Twain's party returned to Benares Thursday, February 20:

where we stayed twenty-four hours and inspected that strange and fascinating piety-hive again; then left for Lucknow,

February 21 Friday – The Clemens party left Benares for Lucknow, some 261 miles. Sam’s notebook:

February 3 Monday – The Clemens party arrived in Allahabad: We arrived in the forenoon, and short-handed; for Satan [their servant] got left behind somewhere that morning, and did not overtake us until after nightfall. It seemed very peaceful without him. The world seemed asleep and dreaming. I did not see the native town, I think. I do not remember why....But I saw the English part of the city.

The Clemens party took rooms at the Esplanade Hotel, also known as Watson’s Hotel. (January 18, 1896). They made trips to Baroda and January 31 and Poona on January 29. They departed Bombay February 3 for Allahabad.