With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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... present Sirdar made head against Osman Digna with what irregulars and friendlies he could get together . Then in 1888 Osman waxed insolent and threw up trenches against Suakim . It became a regular siege , and Dervish shells fell into ...
... present Sirdar made head against Osman Digna with what irregulars and friendlies he could get together . Then in 1888 Osman waxed insolent and threw up trenches against Suakim . It became a regular siege , and Dervish shells fell into ...
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... present again , and the Halfa of to - day is the Egypt of to - day . Halfa has left off being a fortress and a garrison ; to - day it is all workshop and railway terminus . To - day it makes war not with bayonets , but with rivets and ...
... present again , and the Halfa of to - day is the Egypt of to - day . Halfa has left off being a fortress and a garrison ; to - day it is all workshop and railway terminus . To - day it makes war not with bayonets , but with rivets and ...
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... present wife ? " " O no , Excellency . My wife cooks very well , and I want her to cook my rations . She also is willing . " So , everybody being willing , the second marriage took place . Mohammed Ali's sister duly bore a son , and the ...
... present wife ? " " O no , Excellency . My wife cooks very well , and I want her to cook my rations . She also is willing . " So , everybody being willing , the second marriage took place . Mohammed Ali's sister duly bore a son , and the ...
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... present . ' When was " at present " going to end ? So next I wired to Cook's agent to send them by road ; he replied that they had started four days before . So far , so good . I sat down to wait some more . Only two days before they ...
... present . ' When was " at present " going to end ? So next I wired to Cook's agent to send them by road ; he replied that they had started four days before . So far , so good . I sat down to wait some more . Only two days before they ...
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... present , an American might almost call it the queen city of the Sudan . Only for the present it must be a city with- out native population ; for the inhabitants of this reach are very few , and subsist on precarious subsidies paid them ...
... present , an American might almost call it the queen city of the Sudan . Only for the present it must be a city with- out native population ; for the inhabitants of this reach are very few , and subsist on precarious subsidies paid them ...
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