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... English , we are not afraid❞ — A flattering belief 85 XI . THE CONCENTRATION . The restrictions laid on correspondents - Loading the camels- Arab ideas of time - Impartial stupidity of the camel - Peri- patetic Christmas trees - The ...
... English , we are not afraid❞ — A flattering belief 85 XI . THE CONCENTRATION . The restrictions laid on correspondents - Loading the camels- Arab ideas of time - Impartial stupidity of the camel - Peri- patetic Christmas trees - The ...
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... English , too , the Sudan has played its fatal witchery , and half the tale of Halfa is our own as well as Egypt's . its buildings and up and down its sandy , windy streets we may trace all the stages of the first conquest , the loss ...
... English , too , the Sudan has played its fatal witchery , and half the tale of Halfa is our own as well as Egypt's . its buildings and up and down its sandy , windy streets we may trace all the stages of the first conquest , the loss ...
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... English firemen and drivers are hard to get , and Italian mechanics are largely employed - so much so , that the Director of Railways has found it worth while to spare a café for them out of his cramped elbow - room . As for native ...
... English firemen and drivers are hard to get , and Italian mechanics are largely employed - so much so , that the Director of Railways has found it worth while to spare a café for them out of his cramped elbow - room . As for native ...
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... English . It was true that he could understand a dozen words of that lingo if pronounced sloppily enough and put ungrammatically together . But when it came to his turn he could say " Yes , sir , " and then followed it up with an ...
... English . It was true that he could understand a dozen words of that lingo if pronounced sloppily enough and put ungrammatically together . But when it came to his turn he could say " Yes , sir , " and then followed it up with an ...
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... a revelation , not of English energy , which is under- stood , but of Egyptian industry . The wall was over x feet high , firmly built of sun - dried mud ; round it A MONUMENT OF EGYPTIAN INDUSTRY . 77 had been a 76 FORT ATBARA .
... a revelation , not of English energy , which is under- stood , but of Egyptian industry . The wall was over x feet high , firmly built of sun - dried mud ; round it A MONUMENT OF EGYPTIAN INDUSTRY . 77 had been a 76 FORT ATBARA .
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21st Lancers Abu Hamed angareb Arab Atbara attack Author Baggara battalions battery battle BATTLE OF OMDURMAN Berber Bimbashi Blackwood and Sons boats British Brigade bullets Cairo camel-corps camels Camerons camp campaign Captain Cheap Cheaper Edition cloth Colonel Crown 8vo dead Demy 8vo Dervishes desert Dongola donkeys Egypt Egyptian army enemy English Fcap fight fire force four front Gebel gunboats guns half Halfa horse infantry Jaalin JOHN Kerreri Khalifa Khartum killed Lancers Lectures LL.D looked Macdonald 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 Second Edition Shendi Sirdar soldiers squadrons steamers Suakim Sudan Sudanese Surgham Third Edition tion troops University of Edinburgh vols wall William Blackwood wounded zariba
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