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... mile away . Only it seems to be standing on nothing , in the middle of the sea . To port and star- board is still blue sea - nothing else at all . We are getting much closer now , and we see two low dust - coloured breakwaters push- ing ...
... mile away . Only it seems to be standing on nothing , in the middle of the sea . To port and star- board is still blue sea - nothing else at all . We are getting much closer now , and we see two low dust - coloured breakwaters push- ing ...
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... mile after mile , unbending , through desolation . The same white and red buoys mark the central channel ; you pass the same grey , patient dredgers , scooping up silt and spew- ISMAILIA . 31 ing it out , along what looks 30 IN SEARCH ...
... mile after mile , unbending , through desolation . The same white and red buoys mark the central channel ; you pass the same grey , patient dredgers , scooping up silt and spew- ISMAILIA . 31 ing it out , along what looks 30 IN SEARCH ...
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... miles away , and Suez was left high and dry to look at silent quays and empty basins . Poor Suez ! From the railway station you see Port Tewfik , a cluster of green and white and brown . The railway embankment between town and suburb is ...
... miles away , and Suez was left high and dry to look at silent quays and empty basins . Poor Suez ! From the railway station you see Port Tewfik , a cluster of green and white and brown . The railway embankment between town and suburb is ...
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... miles an hour through the fields of Egypt . Nobody could call Egypt a beauti- ful country , but nobody could deny that it is a picturesque one . Under the steely clouds green and brown fields stretched out on either hand . They were all ...
... miles an hour through the fields of Egypt . Nobody could call Egypt a beauti- ful country , but nobody could deny that it is a picturesque one . Under the steely clouds green and brown fields stretched out on either hand . They were all ...
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... mile was duly covered in three minutes fifteen seconds - but , alas for the behaviour of the five thousand ! They had come to see , and they meant to see ; they evaded or overpowered the police , stormed the grand stand , and came ...
... mile was duly covered in three minutes fifteen seconds - but , alas for the behaviour of the five thousand ! They had come to see , and they meant to see ; they evaded or overpowered the police , stormed the grand stand , and came ...
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