With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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... standing miracle - A disaster to a gunboat - Not a white man's country - The Intelligence Department 233 XXXI . THE RECONNAISSANCES . With the 21st Lancers - Dervishes at last ! The lines of Kerreri - The first shot - Kerreri abandoned ...
... standing miracle - A disaster to a gunboat - Not a white man's country - The Intelligence Department 233 XXXI . THE RECONNAISSANCES . With the 21st Lancers - Dervishes at last ! The lines of Kerreri - The first shot - Kerreri abandoned ...
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... standing behind him with a paper , cried , " Quaiss kitir " - " Very good . " When he made a fool of himself , the black sergeant trod on him as he lay flat on his belly : he accepted praise and reproof with equal satisfaction , as part ...
... standing behind him with a paper , cried , " Quaiss kitir " - " Very good . " When he made a fool of himself , the black sergeant trod on him as he lay flat on his belly : he accepted praise and reproof with equal satisfaction , as part ...
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... stands five hours in the sun before breakfast with his men on the range . He must needs be a keen soldier or he would not have volunteered for his post , and a good one , or he would not have got it . But on the top of this he is also ...
... stands five hours in the sun before breakfast with his men on the range . He must needs be a keen soldier or he would not have volunteered for his post , and a good one , or he would not have got it . But on the top of this he is also ...
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... standing to the credit of a subaltern of sappers . The Egyptian army is a triumph of youth on every side , but in none is it more signal than in the case of the Director of Railways . He never loses his head nor forgets his own mind ...
... standing to the credit of a subaltern of sappers . The Egyptian army is a triumph of youth on every side , but in none is it more signal than in the case of the Director of Railways . He never loses his head nor forgets his own mind ...
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... 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 . I wore out ...
... 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 . I wore out ...
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