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done; bravo, ye strong, supple, clever youths; God bless you, brave 

 fellows, and give your fathers joy and your children His blessing. 



Fig. 67. A Passage through the Nile Rapids. 



Better, better, better yet, ye cowards, ye strengthless, ye sapless, ye 

 miserable, ye pitiable Allah damn you all in His righteous wrath, 

 ye ye Help us, help us, O Mohammed." Such is the torrent which 



(M70) 



