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...with his mother's blessing when he was six. At 18 he had been a bootblack, a harbor scavenger, a hashish peddler in the brothels of Alexandria. His next move was to embark for Africa with a stock of liquor for the British army in the Sudan. At Khartoum he saw Chinese Gordon killed by the Moslem Mahdi, became the Mahdi's finance minister and political adviser for ten precarious years that included his forced marriage to a captive nun in an obscenely burlesqued ceremony. Meanwhile he had become Kitchener's No. 1 spy, and when Kitchener...
...recorded history is the world's oldest: 6,000 years. The Nile has two sources, both undiscovered until recent times. Source of the White Nile, Lake Victoria Nyanza, was found by Speke (1862); source of the Blue Nile, near Lake Tana in Ethiopia, by Samuel Baker (1864). At Khartoum the two branches join, go on to form in the desert the oasis of Egypt...
...South African War ace took the lead. Apparently sure of victory, he ran into veldt fires, lost his way, cracked up with a dislocated arm on an ant-hill in Southern Rhodesia. A similar mishap overtook another entrant at Mpulungu near Lake Tanganyika, while a third was grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot Max Findlay with three companions, the second a small single-engined Percival Vega Gull flown by Pilot Charles William Anderson Scott, winner...
...Dunne began to have dreams which waking experiences later confirmed. He dreamed, for example, that his watch had stopped at a certain time, woke to find that it had indeed stopped at that time. He had prophetic dreams of the Martinique volcano explosion and earthquake, of the arrival in Khartoum of a Cape-to-Cairo expedition, of a tragic factory fire in Paris. No gull for swamis and crystal-gazers, Soldier Dunne thought he might be falsely imagining, when he read of some event in a newspaper, that he had previously dreamed...
...destroyed by Italian bombers, correspondents can use the telegraph line which follows the country's only railroad into French Somaliland. Should both wireless and telegraph be destroyed, dispatches can be sent by runners to Gallabat, in the Sudan, or by chartered plane to the British cable station at Khartoum, 500 mi. from Addis Ababa...