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... waiting game - A hurried depar- ture - A happy thought 31 V. I MARCH TO BERBER . The hiring of donkeys - Arab deliberation - A wonderful horse -The procession starts - The luxury of angarebs - A dis- reputable caravan - Four miles an ...
... waiting game - A hurried depar- ture - A happy thought 31 V. I MARCH TO BERBER . The hiring of donkeys - Arab deliberation - A wonderful horse -The procession starts - The luxury of angarebs - A dis- reputable caravan - Four miles an ...
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... wait at the Atbara for a bridge before it can be extended to Khar- tum . But already here is something over five hundred miles of rail laid in a savage desert - a record to make the reputation of any engineer in the world , standing to ...
... wait at the Atbara for a bridge before it can be extended to Khar- tum . But already here is something over five hundred miles of rail laid in a savage desert - a record to make the reputation of any engineer in the world , standing to ...
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... waiting - a string of empty trucks - and also a tent , a little hut made of sleeper baulks , a tank , points , and a ... wait till their turn comes to take the train . They don't love the life - who would ? -but they stick to it like ...
... waiting - a string of empty trucks - and also a tent , a little hut made of sleeper baulks , a tank , points , and a ... wait till their turn comes to take the train . They don't love the life - who would ? -but they stick to it like ...
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... accommodated with a bunk apiece in the garden , and I sat down again to wait for the horses . I waited many days and then wired ; the commandant wired TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES . 37 back , " Your horses cannot 36 THE CORRESPONDENT'S PROGRESS .
... accommodated with a bunk apiece in the garden , and I sat down again to wait for the horses . I waited many days and then wired ; the commandant wired TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES . 37 back , " Your horses cannot 36 THE CORRESPONDENT'S PROGRESS .
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... wait some more . Only two days before they might be expected , on March 1 , came the news that the British brigade had gone up to Berber , and that correspondents might go too . Hurrah again ! Only when , how ? O , you can go to ...
... wait some more . Only two days before they might be expected , on March 1 , came the news that the British brigade had gone up to Berber , and that correspondents might go too . Hurrah again ! Only when , how ? O , you can go to ...
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