Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 512
,for now they are adrift in the cataract, andmust shoot down unknown rapids, chancingeverything, swinging into shore as soon as maybe with the help of paddle and sail. Then isall to be done over again—the line made fast,the black men harnessed on, and the risk of anew channel encountered as before.… … HOW THE ENGINEERS WERE CARRIED OVER TO THE NILE ISLANDS. beaten into by tons of water, whether they can and stores to last for weeks. Then how the go through it or not? Truly this is no place hauling-men would swarm at the lines, and for wavering nerve or halting judgment. The shout queer African…
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