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... bushes , dotted park - wise over the sand , began to rise up on both sides of us , then palms ; soon we were in a thickish scrub . The air cooled and moistened from death to life : we were back again on the Nile , at Abu Hamed ...
... bushes , dotted park - wise over the sand , began to rise up on both sides of us , then palms ; soon we were in a thickish scrub . The air cooled and moistened from death to life : we were back again on the Nile , at Abu Hamed ...
Page 68
... that he was in the enemy's country , with prowling dervishes ambushed behind every mimosa bush . So that while . search parties quested for him by day , he carefully THE BOOT SCANDAL . 69 hid himself , and at 68 IN THE BRITISH CAMP .
... that he was in the enemy's country , with prowling dervishes ambushed behind every mimosa bush . So that while . search parties quested for him by day , he carefully THE BOOT SCANDAL . 69 hid himself , and at 68 IN THE BRITISH CAMP .
Page 87
... bush , and yellow - green fruit of Sodom apples . At a dis- tance it is cool luxury ; ride into it , and it is only the sun - dried skeleton of a city . In what was once the bazaar the bones are thickest : here are the empty sockets out ...
... bush , and yellow - green fruit of Sodom apples . At a dis- tance it is cool luxury ; ride into it , and it is only the sun - dried skeleton of a city . In what was once the bazaar the bones are thickest : here are the empty sockets out ...
Page 106
... bush that grows thorns and little yellow honey - breathing fluff- balls , but on the fruitful Atbara a cedar - spreading tree , with young leaves like an acacia's . The camels rear up their affected heads , and ecstatically scrunch ...
... bush that grows thorns and little yellow honey - breathing fluff- balls , but on the fruitful Atbara a cedar - spreading tree , with young leaves like an acacia's . The camels rear up their affected heads , and ecstatically scrunch ...
Page 107
... halted and dis- mounted when the Dervish horse suddenly attacked the sentries . The troopers were in their saddles and out at the enemy smartly enough , and after a short scuffle the Dervishes sheered off into the bush . The.
... halted and dis- mounted when the Dervish horse suddenly attacked the sentries . The troopers were in their saddles and out at the enemy smartly enough , and after a short scuffle the Dervishes sheered off into the bush . The.
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