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bTitle:/b Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, alon...

Excerpt from Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles, Vol. 1 The Work now presented to the public, is nothing more than a transcript from a Journal kept by the Author during a tour in Egypt and Nubia, (undertaken in company with other members of his family) only a few months \ago. The peculiarity of the relations of Egypt and the Porte at the present moment, affords the Author the best excuse he can put forward for appearing in print, and he ho...

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Excerpt from Khartoum, Vol. 2 of 2: And the Blue and White Niles We were not allowed to have the scene entirely to ourselves. Every ferry-boat had brought at least a dozen gazers from Wadeh Halfea, and the bank could boast an nu usual collection of picturesque Objects, look ing in the distance like bundles of white linen, surmounted by curly heads, while here and there a camel lay groaning, in apparent anticipation of the coming burthen. Prom...

Excerpt from School Experiences of a Fag: At a Private and a Public School A recent instance of the abuse of monitorial power in a public school has given rise to a controversy on the subject of school government, and led to the inditing of many letters and leading articles in newspapers on "Fagging and Flogging" in our public schools. Without expressing any opinion on the animus of these effusions, I may be allowed to remark that neither the...

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Excerpt from Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1874: Seven Letters to the "Times"In 73 boroughs town meetings' have been held condemning the extension Of hours and the distinction proposed to be set up between spirit and beer houses. In Bath, Bradford, Birmingham Leeds, Liver pool, Manchester, and 14 other towns, the Mayor presided, in no case does it appear that any amendment was ever proposed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...

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