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... live year in , year out , in the Sudan , in splitting sun and red- hot sand . You will notice it best with the men who are less trained to take a pull on their sentiment than are British officers - with the engineer corporals and the ...
... live year in , year out , in the Sudan , in splitting sun and red- hot sand . You will notice it best with the men who are less trained to take a pull on their sentiment than are British officers - with the engineer corporals and the ...
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... live in it . Here is a typical case . One day a particularly smart soldier came and desired to speak with his commanding officer . " I wish to marry , O thou Bey , " he said . " But aren't you married ? " " Yes ; but my wife is old and ...
... live in it . Here is a typical case . One day a particularly smart soldier came and desired to speak with his commanding officer . " I wish to marry , O thou Bey , " he said . " But aren't you married ? " " Yes ; but my wife is old and ...
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... lives . On the other side of me , detached , empty , quite alone , stood the saloon which brought me from Halfa . It was going back again to - night , and then I should be quite loose and outcast in the smiling Sudan . I sat and ...
... lives . On the other side of me , detached , empty , quite alone , stood the saloon which brought me from Halfa . It was going back again to - night , and then I should be quite loose and outcast in the smiling Sudan . I sat and ...
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... lives , and rode on . That was all they wanted . Looking back after a hundred yards we saw every camel loaded up and starting . If we had stayed behind we should never have got off that night . If we had ridden on six hours before we ...
... lives , and rode on . That was all they wanted . Looking back after a hundred yards we saw every camel loaded up and starting . If we had stayed behind we should never have got off that night . If we had ridden on six hours before we ...
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... live coals by day , it can be aching ice by night . It is the healthiest climate in the world if you have shade at noon and many rugs an hour before reveille ; but if you have not , and especially if you happen to be a kilted Highlander ...
... live coals by day , it can be aching ice by night . It is the healthiest climate in the world if you have shade at noon and many rugs an hour before reveille ; but if you have not , and especially if you happen to be a kilted Highlander ...
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