With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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... built on the Indian plan - four beds in one compartment , eight in the other , plenty of room on the floor , and shutters everywhere to keep out the sand . The train looked as if the other end of it must be at Abu Hamed already —
... built on the Indian plan - four beds in one compartment , eight in the other , plenty of room on the floor , and shutters everywhere to keep out the sand . The train looked as if the other end of it must be at Abu Hamed already —
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... looked like a part of the world quite new , with none of the bloom rubbed off . It seemed almost profanity that I should be intruding on the sanctity of the prime . But I was not the first intruder . Straight , firm , and purposeful ran ...
... looked like a part of the world quite new , with none of the bloom rubbed off . It seemed almost profanity that I should be intruding on the sanctity of the prime . But I was not the first intruder . Straight , firm , and purposeful ran ...
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... eye till we had them alongside the mountainous confusion of three correspondents ' light baggage . Arrived at the scene of action , they sat down with one consent and looked at it . The only way to hurry an Arab is to kill 39.
... eye till we had them alongside the mountainous confusion of three correspondents ' light baggage . Arrived at the scene of action , they sat down with one consent and looked at it . The only way to hurry an Arab is to kill 39.
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... looked at them . Presently they made it known that they had no rope . A rope was produced and cut into lengths ; each took one , and sat and looked at it . Finally arose an old , old man , attired in a rag round his head and a pair of ...
... looked at them . Presently they made it known that they had no rope . A rope was produced and cut into lengths ; each took one , and sat and looked at it . Finally arose an old , old man , attired in a rag round his head and a pair of ...
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... looked at it wearily , smelt it , and turned in perplexity to his master as if asking instructions . He had forgotten what food was for . The young moon was climbing up the sky when we set off . With chattering and yells the donkeys and ...
... looked at it wearily , smelt it , and turned in perplexity to his master as if asking instructions . He had forgotten what food was for . The young moon was climbing up the sky when we set off . With chattering and yells the donkeys and ...
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