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... horse -The procession starts - The luxury of angarebs - A dis- reputable caravan - Four miles an hour - The desert tread- mill - A camel ride to Berber 39 VI . THE SIRDAR . Irrelevant details - The Sudan Machine - The harvest of fifteen ...
... horse -The procession starts - The luxury of angarebs - A dis- reputable caravan - Four miles an hour - The desert tread- mill - A camel ride to Berber 39 VI . THE SIRDAR . Irrelevant details - The Sudan Machine - The harvest of fifteen ...
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... horse and four field batteries , and Maxims , a camel corps of eight companies , and the usual non - combatant services . Lord Dufferin limited the original army to 6000 men , with 25 white offi- cers ; to - day it counts three times ...
... horse and four field batteries , and Maxims , a camel corps of eight companies , and the usual non - combatant services . Lord Dufferin limited the original army to 6000 men , with 25 white offi- cers ; to - day it counts three times ...
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... horse needs to be groomed and fed . The horses are stout , hardy beasts of 13 hands or so : they get through an amazing amount of work , and so do the men , though they are a little heavy in the saddle . The strength of a squadron is ...
... horse needs to be groomed and fed . The horses are stout , hardy beasts of 13 hands or so : they get through an amazing amount of work , and so do the men , though they are a little heavy in the saddle . The strength of a squadron is ...
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... horses and two nigger boys - one to look after the horses and one to look after me . One of them I bought through Cook , as one takes a railway - ticket ; NATIVE SERVANTS . 33 the other suddenly dashed at me 32 THE CORRESPONDENT'S PROGRESS ...
... horses and two nigger boys - one to look after the horses and one to look after me . One of them I bought through Cook , as one takes a railway - ticket ; NATIVE SERVANTS . 33 the other suddenly dashed at me 32 THE CORRESPONDENT'S PROGRESS ...
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... horse's tail , where the brush can't get at it . They all talked at the same time , and gesticulated furiously . The first Bishari was a wizened old man , with a wisp or two of grey beard , a black shawl , and a large expanse of chest ...
... horse's tail , where the brush can't get at it . They all talked at the same time , and gesticulated furiously . The first Bishari was a wizened old man , with a wisp or two of grey beard , a black shawl , and a large expanse of chest ...
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