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The World's Work Volume 29

The World's Work Volume 29


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...Beyond Wadi Haifa there is comfort in the shelter of the smokedglass windows and in the current of the electric fans, for we are now out on the most forbidding stretch of desert ever crossed by a railway, the section which no one might ever have had the courage to attempt had not Kitchener insisted upon it in order to shatter the power of the Khalifa. Barriers, like those erected along our railroads in the Northwest against snow, hold back the desert drifts, and if we get out and examine the rails, the older ones will be found heavily eroded by the sand-blast of the wind. We shall be lucky to escape a huboub (wind storm) in this region, for the schedule of even the "Cape Town Express" cannot be maintained upon a track that is a foot deep in drifted sand. Even the water for the engine is carried along in a tank over a considerable part of this "NeverNever" section. Napata, the one-time capital of the Ethiopians, is passed shortly after dom-palms and barley fields herald a return to the river, and presently we skirt the pyramids of Meroe, incalculably more ancient than those of Gizeh, which stud the prehistoric site of the seat of Egyptian culture. At Atbara the first great tributary of the Nile is crossed--on a bridge of American steel, by the way--and it is an interesting coincidence that this is also the point where the first "tributary "of the Cape-to-Cairo Railway, the Port Sudan branch, joins the main trunk. From now on the country is less forbidding. Circular huts, nestling in clumps of fragrant mimosa, begin to appear, and herds of fat-tailed goats and evidences of cultivation become more frequent. The low hills of Kerreri, where the Khalifa made his last stand, announce the imminence of Khartum, and shortly the train cro...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155368375
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 388
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155368371
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 689 gr


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