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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. 57. — A Passage through the Nile Kapids. 



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, Mohammed." Such is the torrent which 



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