. Service & sport in the Sudan; a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. With some intervals of sport and travel. -STEAMER IN SUDD (IN liAUK KL i;HA/Al.). NEARLY lllKul,,)! .i. BRITISH OFFICER (BIMB. HUTCHINSON, ) IN MARCHING ORDERIN EAHR EL (IHAZAL PROVINCE. I EARLY WORK 73 trate), a capable native officer, did the very simplework of the place. I sat and scratched, and almostlonged for Khartum, and, oh ! how I longed to beback in the Hagana. One day an aggrieved deputation arrived to demandrain ! Inshallah, it will come soon, was the onlypossible reply. Some days later, m
. Service & sport in the Sudan; a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. With some intervals of sport and travel. -STEAMER IN SUDD (IN liAUK KL i;HA/Al.). NEARLY lllKul,,)! .i. BRITISH OFFICER (BIMB. HUTCHINSON, ) IN MARCHING ORDERIN EAHR EL (IHAZAL PROVINCE. I EARLY WORK 73 trate), a capable native officer, did the very simplework of the place. I sat and scratched, and almostlonged for Khartum, and, oh ! how I longed to beback in the Hagana. One day an aggrieved deputation arrived to demandrain ! Inshallah, it will come soon, was the onlypossible reply. Some days later, my pony havingarrived from El Eddaiya, I rode round the placepromising rain, which was overdue. As a showerfell that night, a second deputation arrived to thankme, and to say that it had only fallen within thecircle I had ridden, so would I ride elsewhere andbring it. I did not bless the rain, necessary as it wasfor the crops. The black cotton soil on which myhouse stood became a perfect quagmire. The househad been partly built by the hands of Captain (Lancashire Fusiliers), the first inspector ofRenk, but its position was awful. Apart from thefact that it was in the centre of
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