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...Warrior. Doyle's first experience with war was on the banks of the Nile, following a health trip to Egypt which involved him in various forms of desert adventure. The Boer War brought him to South Africa as an army surgeon, gave him a good taste of the unpleasanter forms of conflict, including work in a hospital improvised during an enteric epidemic. The town could be smelt rather than seen. The Great War found him roaming about the front-line trenches-French, Australian, Italian. After the Boer War and during the Great War, Doyle devoted a good deal...
Britain's Case. Since the year 1899, the whole face of the Sudan? at present about one-third the size of the U. S. with a population just under 6 million people?has been changed. The most stupendous of British-built irrigation systems, by which the flow of the Nile is regulated, have greatly assisted the revitalization of the country. Naturally, Great Britain is adverse to renouncing her claims over such a territory...
Gathering his followers together-his Royal Guards, his Imperial Legion of Africa, his Sublime Order of the Nile, his Distinguished Order of Ethiopia, his Black Cross Nurses-he embarked once more, perhaps for the last time before visiting the penitentiary, on an exposition of his doctrines and his hopes...
...When the white men were living in caves and were barbarous, we Negroes gave them a civilization they snatched away from us. We will rebuild a civilization on the banks of the Nile which will never pass away until Gabriel blows his horn. Darwin and Huxley said we were monkeys...
...Sudan, apart from its strategical importance to Anglo-Indian communications, is abundantly watered by the tributaries of the River Nile. Its great plains are, by a combination of this fact and their geographical position, eminently suited to the raising of cotton. This caused that veteran Socialist-publicist, Sidney Webb, and his wife to become parties to the Government's Imperialist designs...