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With Kitchener in the Soudan

CHAPTER 6: Gregory Volunteers
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Some time tomorrow I will discuss it again with you." Gregory went straight back to his hut.
"Come in, Zaki, I want to speak to you.
"Light the lamp, and shut the door.

Now sit down there.

Do you know the country between this and Metemmeh ?" "Yes, master; I travelled there with my father, six years ago." "Is it difficult to find the way ?" "It is not difficult.

There are many signs of the passage of caravans.
There are skeletons of the camels of the English expedition; there are very many of them.

It would not be difficult, even for one who has never passed them, to find the way." "And there are wells ?" "There are wells at Howeyat and Abu Halfa, at Gakdul and Abu Klea, also at Gubat." "That is to say, water will be found nearly every day ?" "Quite every day, to one on horseback.


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