With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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... clothes in it , a shining tin canteen , a cracking lunch - basket , a driving - coat , and a hunting - crop . On one side of me rose the em- bankment of the main line to Berber ; fifty yards on it ended suddenly in the sand , and a ...
... clothes in it , a shining tin canteen , a cracking lunch - basket , a driving - coat , and a hunting - crop . On one side of me rose the em- bankment of the main line to Berber ; fifty yards on it ended suddenly in the sand , and a ...
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... clothes he stands up in and a tin - opener . The young campaigner pro- vides the change of linen and tins for the old cam- paigner to open . So in Cairo I bought everything I could think of as likely to palliate a summer in the Sudan ...
... clothes he stands up in and a tin - opener . The young campaigner pro- vides the change of linen and tins for the old cam- paigner to open . So in Cairo I bought everything I could think of as likely to palliate a summer in the Sudan ...
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... clothing . They mostly insisted on riding the smallest and heaviest- laden donkeys themselves , jumping at a bound on to the jogging load of baggage with four legs patter- ing underneath , and had to be flogged off again . And to finish ...
... clothing . They mostly insisted on riding the smallest and heaviest- laden donkeys themselves , jumping at a bound on to the jogging load of baggage with four legs patter- ing underneath , and had to be flogged off again . And to finish ...
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... clothes . He walks and rides with a resolute solidity bespeaking more strength than agility . He has been known to have fever , but never to be unfit for duty . war . The Second Brigade also consisted of three Sudanese battalions and ...
... clothes . He walks and rides with a resolute solidity bespeaking more strength than agility . He has been known to have fever , but never to be unfit for duty . war . The Second Brigade also consisted of three Sudanese battalions and ...
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... clothes and whistling " The British Grenadiers . " The sun was just up ; but in the Sudan he begins to blister things the moment he is over the horizon . The sanduk lay on the south side of the north wall of our zariba . Greengages were ...
... clothes and whistling " The British Grenadiers . " The sun was just up ; but in the Sudan he begins to blister things the moment he is over the horizon . The sanduk lay on the south side of the north wall of our zariba . Greengages were ...
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21st Lancers Abu Hamed angareb Arab Atbara attack Baggara bank battalions battery battle battle of Omdurman Berber Bimbashi Blackwood and Sons boats British Brigade bullets Cairo camel-corps camels Camerons camp campaign Captain cavalry Cheap Edition cloth Colonel Crown 8vo dead Demy 8vo Dervishes desert Dongola donkeys Edinburgh Egypt Egyptian army enemy English Fcap fight fire force four front Gebel gunboats guns half Halfa horses Hunter infantry Jaalin Kerreri Khalifa Khartum killed Lancers LL.D looked Mahmud Maps Maxims Merawi Metemmeh miles morning native never night Nile numerous Illustrations officers OLIPHANT Omdurman Osman Osman Digna Portrait Post 8vo Professor railway regiment Revised Rifles river round sand Scotland Seaforths Second Edition Shendi Sirdar soldiers squadrons steamers Suakim Sudan Sudanese Third Edition tion trenches troops University of Edinburgh vols wall William Blackwood wounded zariba
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