item: #1 of 12
          id: 17592
      author: English, George Bethune
       title: A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy
        date: None
       words: 39135
      flesch: 67
     summary: The tract of country included between the Adit and the Bahar el Abiud is called El Gezira, i.e. the island: because, in the season of the rains, many rivers running from the mountains in the south into the Bahar el Abiud and the Adit, occasion this tract to be included by rivers. I do not consider it as meriting this appellation so much on account of its periodical and regular floods, in which respect it is resembled by several other rivers, as on account of another circumstance, in which, so far as I know, it is without a parallel.
    keywords: army; arrival; bank; berber; boat; camels; camp; cataract; country; day; days; desert; egypt; footnote; hour; malek; man; march; miles; nile; pasha; people; place; river; rocks; sennaar; shore; villages; water; wind
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: 18868
      author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
       title: With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
        date: None
       words: 140511
      flesch: 82
     summary: Other men would do to purchase animals from the Arabs, or to receive them at the ports when they were brought over from Spain and Italy; but it required a variety of qualities, difficult to obtain in the same person, to act as agent with the army. White men could not have supported it for an hour, but these blacks and Egyptians had a hundred miles to go, and the steamers could not make more than a knot an hour against the rapid stream, now swollen to its fullest.
    keywords: abu; army; battle; british; camp; colonel; course; day; days; dervishes; doubt; egyptian; enemy; father; fight; fire; force; general; good; gregory; half; hilliard; hope; horses; hour; house; khalifa; left; life; mahmud; man; men; miles; morning; native; officers; omdurman; place; position; river; saw; sir; sirdar; soudanese; time; town; troops; water; way; white; work; years; zaki
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: 18883
      author: Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
       title: The Four Feathers
        date: None
       words: 108927
      flesch: 87
     summary: For since his visits to General Feversham were limited to the occasion of these anniversary dinners, he had never yet seen Harry Feversham. Harry Feversham, Harry Feversham, the cry was repeated and repeated, while old General Feversham sat in his chair with a face aflush with pride.
    keywords: abou; adair; answer; calder; captain; colonel; day; door; durrance; end; ethne; eyes; face; fatma; feather; feversham; friend; general; good; hand; harry feversham; head; house; know; left; lieutenant; life; little; look; man; mind; moment; morning; mrs; news; night; room; rose; story; sutch; thing; thought; time; trench; understand; voice; way; white; willoughby; window; words; world; years
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: 21136
      author: Hough, Lewis
       title: For Fortune and Glory: A Story of the Soudan War
        date: None
       words: 108604
      flesch: 80
     summary: Good man, Gubbins! It very well might, said Strachan; for there are all sorts of chances going when good men are really wanted.
    keywords: arabs; bit; body; camel; chance; close; company; country; course; cut; daireh; day; dead; egyptian; enemy; english; face; fellow; fire; forsyth; general; good; grady; green; half; hand; harry; head; home; hope; kavanagh; lay; left; life; look; mahdi; man; men; mind; officer; people; place; position; present; rifle; right; round; sergeant; sheikh; shot; sir; square; strachan; sword; thing; thought; time; tom; uncle; use; want; water; way; work; zereba
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: 21719
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
        date: None
       words: 94390
      flesch: 78
     summary: Make Miles my residuary legatee. The room into which he was ushered was a moderately large public-house, with a bar and a number of tables round the room, at which many men and a few women were seated; some gambling, others singing or disputing, and all drinking and smoking.
    keywords: armstrong; comrades; course; day; door; drew; duty; enemy; eyes; face; fact; father; fellow; flynn; friend; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; hero; home; institute; jack; left; life; little; look; man; marion; men; miles; mind; miss; molloy; moment; moses; mother; night; place; point; poor; portsmouth; robinson; room; round; sergeant; ship; simkin; soldiers; stevenson; suakim; things; thought; time; voice; way; work; young
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: 30365
      author: Sienkiewicz, Henryk
       title: In Desert and Wilderness
        date: None
       words: 127480
      flesch: 80
     summary: Stas in reality regarded this language as the most beautiful in the world and taught it, not without some success, to little Nell. The air became so cool that Stas shook off his drowsiness and began to worry whether the chill would not incommode little Nell.
    keywords: bedouins; boy; camels; camp; caravan; chamis; children; day; days; death; desert; distance; elephant; eyes; face; father; fear; fire; gebhr; girl; good; ground; hands; head; horses; idris; journey; kali; king; little; mahdi; master; mea; moment; mzimu; near; negroes; nell; night; order; people; place; ravine; rawlinson; return; rifle; river; saba; saw; smain; stas; sudânese; sun; thought; time; tree; trunk; want; water; way; white
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: 3233
      author: Baker, Samuel White, Sir
       title: In the Heart of Africa
        date: None
       words: 90420
      flesch: 71
     summary: Mahomet, who was a great man, suffered from the same complaint to which great men are (in those countries) particularly subject. No. 3, a man deformed from his birth, who wishes to become straight as other men.
    keywords: abou; aggageers; animals; arabs; arrival; camels; camp; close; country; course; day; days; dead; distance; elephant; feet; fire; forward; gondokoro; good; ground; half; hand; having; head; horse; ibrahim; jungle; kamrasi; khartoum; lake; lay; left; length; like; little; mahomet; man; march; men; miles; moment; morning; natives; night; nile; party; people; place; return; river; shot; speke; spot; time; water; white; wife; yards
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: 32875
      author: Wingate, F. R. (Francis Reginald), Sir
       title: Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892
        date: None
       words: 158863
      flesch: 67
     summary: He called himself Mahdi Khalifat er Rasul (_i.e._ the successor of the Prophet), while his adherents called him Sayid (_i.e._ Master); Sayidna el Mahdi (_i.e._ our Master the Mahdi), or Sayidna el Imam (_i.e._ our Master the head, or one who goes in front). They swore by him in the words Hakk rabb el Mahdi (By the Mahdi's God) or Hakk Sayidna el Imam (By our Lord, the Imam); all solemn oaths and statements began with the words Aleik el Mahdi el Muntaser (By the Victorious Mahdi); his virtues were extolled in poems, and constant reference was made to his good looks, wisdom, stature and to his repeated victories over the Turks.
    keywords: abdullah; abu; ahmed; anga; arabs; arrival; baggara; beit el; berber; bey; bonomi; camels; camp; country; darfur; day; days; dead; death; dervishes; dollars; dongola; egypt; egyptian; el mahdi; el mal; el obeid; emirs; english; escape; fall; father; force; general; god; good; gordon; government; hands; head; hicks; house; hut; inhabitants; khalifa; khalifa abdullah; khartum; kordofan; left; letter; life; little; mahdi; market; men; mission; mohammed; money; near; news; night; nile; numbers; omdurman; osman; pasha; people; place; power; return; sheikh; sherif; slaves; soldiers; sudan; thought; time; town; tribe; troops; wad; wad el; water; way; white; women
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: 32995
      author: Jackson, Louis
       title: Our Caughnawagas in Egypt a narrative of what was seen and accomplished by the contingent of North American Indian voyageurs who led the British boat Expedition for the Relief of Khartoum up the Cataracts of the Nile.
        date: None
       words: 9737
      flesch: 77
     summary: They build houses with it as well as boats and it is this mud which manures and fertilizes the whole land of Egypt. A track runs from the depot straight down to the river and there were a number of flat cars loaded with boats, of which I took a nearer look, I also saw oars and poles.
    keywords: boats; cataract; channel; day; feet; men; miles; mud; nile; place; river; saw; time; water
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: 41035
      author: Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von
       title: Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895
        date: None
       words: 233975
      flesch: 64
     summary: Abdullahi bin Sayd Mohammed, Khalifa el Mahdi, _W. Arab_, early history, 127, 514; proclaimed Khalifa, 281; appearance, 285; commands blue flag, 303; succeeds Mahdi, 370; coinage, 407; signs and commands, 409; tyranny, 429; seizes Nile boats, 431; Mahdi's Dome, 432; Dr. Wahrmund's letter, 447; brethren arrive, 449; writes to Queen, etc., 450; illness, 496; fortifies Atbara, 507; fiendish character, 516; harem, 520; postal service, 527; how he rides abroad, 528; reviews, 530; present army, etc., 535; frontiers, 537; treasuries, 538; timidity, 562; house at Omdurman, 567; his blackholes, 571. Abdullahi Dudbenga, Harun's cousin, _S._, 85, 211, 377. On first mounting the pulpit, he greets the multitude with the words, Salam Aleikum ya ashab el Mahdi!
    keywords: abdullahi; abu; ahmed; anga; arabs; army; arrival; attack; bahr; bey; brother; camels; camp; children; country; course; dara; darfur; day; days; death; districts; doubt; egyptian; el fasher; el mahdi; el obeid; emirs; enemy; evening; expedition; fasher; following; force; friends; garrison; general; god; good; gordon; government; governor; ground; hands; head; horses; house; inhabitants; instructions; journey; khaled; khalifa; khartum; kordofan; leave; left; letter; life; little; madibbo; mahdi; man; march; master; men; mohammed; money; morning; near; news; night; nile; number; obeid; officers; omdurman; orders; osman; pasha; people; place; poor; position; present; relatives; return; shakka; sheikh; slaves; state; sudan; suleiman; sultan; thought; time; town; tribes; troops; wad; wad el; water; way; women; words; years; zeki; zogal; zubeir
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: 41744
      author: Royle, Charles
       title: The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885
        date: None
       words: 237655
      flesch: 66
     summary: The men, weakened by prolonged exertion under a terrible sun, were forced to live for two or three days on biscuits and muddy water, flavoured only with the dead bodies of Egyptian men and horses. Beacon_, then decided to act, and I went on shore with a Proclamation to be delivered to the Acting Governor, informing him that the place had been occupied by British forces, which occupation was effected without opposition or resistance on the part of the native soldiers.
    keywords: 1st; 2nd; a.m.; admiral; advance; alexandria; arabi; army; artillery; attack; bank; battalion; battery; berber; brigade; british; cairo; camel; camp; canal; cavalry; colonel; column; command; country; day; days; dervishes; desert; despatch; dongola; egyptian; enemy; england; english; expedition; fighting; fire; firing; following; force; fort; french; general; gordon; government; graham; great; ground; guns; half; hand; infantry; khalifa; khartoum; khedive; left; line; lord; loss; mahdi; major; march; men; miles; military; moment; native; nile; north; number; officers; omdurman; order; osman; party; pasha; place; point; position; railway; rear; regiment; right; river; royal; ships; sir; sirdar; small; soldiers; souakim; soudan; soudanese; south; square; steamers; stewart; sultan; time; town; troops; war; water; way; wolseley; work; wounded; yards; zeriba
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: 4943
      author: Churchill, Winston
       title: The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
        date: None
       words: 127701
      flesch: 71
     summary: Gordon embarked on his mission in high spirits, sustained by that belief in personality which too often misleads great men and beautiful women. Osman Azrak, the valiant Bishara, Yakub, and scores whose strange names have not obscured these pages, but who were, nevertheless, great men of war, lay staring up at the stars.
    keywords: abu; action; advance; arabs; army; artillery; atbara; attack; bank; battalions; berber; brigade; british; camel; camp; cavalry; colonel; column; corps; country; day; days; dervish army; dervishes; desert; distance; dongola; egyptian; end; enemy; expedition; field; fire; force; general; gordon; government; ground; gunboats; guns; half; hamed; infantry; khalifa; khartoum; left; line; mahdi; major; march; men; miles; military; nile; north; officers; omdurman; order; osman; place; plain; position; power; railway; right; river; sirdar; soldiers; soudan; soudanese; south; squadrons; suakin; time; town; troops; war; water; white; wounded; yards; zeriba
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