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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 511

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CUTTING THE LINE — A MOMENT OF PERIL. (SEE PAGE 499.) hear the whole story of months spent in fight- This, for instance: that, while the maps put ing a river, in battling with cataract after cata- down six cataracts in the Nile between Cairo ract, in rowing and steering and sailing and and Khartum,… … HAULING A STEAMER UP THE NILE RAPIDS. there are, in truth, many more than six. Be-tween the second and third alone there aremore than six, and some of them bad. Alsothat the river beyond the third cataract curvesaway in a great rambling S, so that LordWolseley planned to send an expedition, as…

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