Word: mendesian
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Sachme. The fortress of Zawi-Re was a group of gloomy buildings on an island in the Mendesian arm of the Nile. When Joseph first saw the prison he divined that he would be there three years. He was right. Joseph was 27. Joseph's jailer, the warden of Zawi-Re, was Mai-Sachme, a soldier and physician, a short, dark, calm man of 40.* Mai-Sachme made Joseph an overseer. Into the isolated life of genial Jailer Mai-Sachme, who was like an intelligent modern officer serving in a frontier post, Joseph brought a breath of the great...
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