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... knew that a railway from Halfa across the desert to Abu Hamed was an impossibility - until the Sirdar turned it into a fact . It was characteristic of the Sirdar's daring — daring based on complete know- ledge and just confidence in ...
... knew that a railway from Halfa across the desert to Abu Hamed was an impossibility - until the Sirdar turned it into a fact . It was characteristic of the Sirdar's daring — daring based on complete know- ledge and just confidence in ...
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... I had no camels , and it would be absurd to go to the Sudan without camels . Now I knew nothing at all of the points of a camel , nor of its market price , nor what it eats , nor could I C ride it . However , camels had to be bought.
... I had no camels , and it would be absurd to go to the Sudan without camels . Now I knew nothing at all of the points of a camel , nor of its market price , nor what it eats , nor could I C ride it . However , camels had to be bought.
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... knew all about camels , and that they were worth £ 27 a pair . First , though , they had to be tried . The Bisharin were all standing about grouped round little heaps of dry , cracked mud , which it took a moment's consider- ation to ...
... knew all about camels , and that they were worth £ 27 a pair . First , though , they had to be tried . The Bisharin were all standing about grouped round little heaps of dry , cracked mud , which it took a moment's consider- ation to ...
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... knew . My kit looked respectable enough in the train , and in Berber it went some way to the respectable furnishing of a house . But as piled by Sudanese Arabs on to donkeys it was disreputable , dishevelled , a humiliation beyond ...
... knew . My kit looked respectable enough in the train , and in Berber it went some way to the respectable furnishing of a house . But as piled by Sudanese Arabs on to donkeys it was disreputable , dishevelled , a humiliation beyond ...
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... knew that reinforcements had come up , had the vaguest idea of the real strength of the force . Finally , said those who remembered , this was just like Toski over again . Whispers and whispers for months that the horde was coming ...
... knew that reinforcements had come up , had the vaguest idea of the real strength of the force . Finally , said those who remembered , this was just like Toski over again . Whispers and whispers for months that the horde was coming ...
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