With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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... bank of sand which is the platform of the northern terminus , and in due time puffed off southward till it was lost among the desert sand- hills . It was a heavy handicap that an infant railway should be asked for double work , but that ...
... bank of sand which is the platform of the northern terminus , and in due time puffed off southward till it was lost among the desert sand- hills . It was a heavy handicap that an infant railway should be asked for double work , but that ...
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... bank of the Nile ; definitely gave up all hope of the things that were supposed to be coming up after me ; started , and arrived in the early morning of March 3 . Now came the time to take my chance . And here , sure enough , comes a ...
... bank of the Nile ; definitely gave up all hope of the things that were supposed to be coming up after me ; started , and arrived in the early morning of March 3 . Now came the time to take my chance . And here , sure enough , comes a ...
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... bank ; then at five we halted to water the donkeys - they eat when they can and what they can - and started for a long spell across the desert . Grey dawn showed us a gentle swell of stony sand , hard under foot ; freshness came with it ...
... bank ; then at five we halted to water the donkeys - they eat when they can and what they can - and started for a long spell across the desert . Grey dawn showed us a gentle swell of stony sand , hard under foot ; freshness came with it ...
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... bank . That was evidence that the attack , if it was coming , would fall on us rather than the Merawi side . Osman's men , it was further reported , had begun to drift northward in detachments ; though whether this meant business or not ...
... bank . That was evidence that the attack , if it was coming , would fall on us rather than the Merawi side . Osman's men , it was further reported , had begun to drift northward in detachments ; though whether this meant business or not ...
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... bank as could get water has dropped back almost to virgin forest in the fourteen years of dervish devilry . But under the walls of Fort Atbara was neither mimosa nor Sodom apple nor any kind of scrub . Only a forest of stumps showed ...
... bank as could get water has dropped back almost to virgin forest in the fourteen years of dervish devilry . But under the walls of Fort Atbara was neither mimosa nor Sodom apple nor any kind of scrub . Only a forest of stumps showed ...
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