With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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... walls , and a pup at the door . There they swelter and smoke and spit and look out at the winking rails and the red - hot sand , and wait till their turn comes to take the train . They don't love the life - who would ? -but they stick ...
... walls , and a pup at the door . There they swelter and smoke and spit and look out at the winking rails and the red - hot sand , and wait till their turn comes to take the train . They don't love the life - who would ? -but they stick ...
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... wall corner trotted eighteen donkeys , followed by eight black men and a boy . Twenty - two ! It was late , but it was better than could be expected of any Arab . We kept them sedulously in our eye till we had them alongside the ...
... wall corner trotted eighteen donkeys , followed by eight black men and a boy . Twenty - two ! It was late , but it was better than could be expected of any Arab . We kept them sedulously in our eye till we had them alongside the ...
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... a revelation , not of English energy , which is under- stood , but of Egyptian industry . The wall was over six feet high , firmly built of sun - dried mud ; round it A MONUMENT OF EGYPTIAN INDUSTRY . 77 had been a 76 FORT ATBARA .
... a revelation , not of English energy , which is under- stood , but of Egyptian industry . The wall was over six feet high , firmly built of sun - dried mud ; round it A MONUMENT OF EGYPTIAN INDUSTRY . 77 had been a 76 FORT ATBARA .
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... wall and attack from the fore- shore . On the other side of the Nile was a smaller fort , walled and ditched ... walls of Fort Atbara was neither mimosa nor Sodom apple nor any kind of scrub . Only a forest of stumps showed where the ...
... wall and attack from the fore- shore . On the other side of the Nile was a smaller fort , walled and ditched ... walls of Fort Atbara was neither mimosa nor Sodom apple nor any kind of scrub . Only a forest of stumps showed where the ...
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... walls , with one - storeyed mud - houses just peeping over them , make it look wider yet . On this magnificent avenue the merchant princes of Berber display their rich emporia . Mortimer , Angelo , Walker , and half - a - dozen ending ...
... walls , with one - storeyed mud - houses just peeping over them , make it look wider yet . On this magnificent avenue the merchant princes of Berber display their rich emporia . Mortimer , Angelo , Walker , and half - a - dozen ending ...
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