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Close behind him he couldhear the hoarse breathing. He was deliberately avoiding the main branch of the White Nile, becausethe Dervish artillery batteries were all concentrated on the northernapproaches. The feeling of the smooth ivory under his fingers was ascomforting as a string of worry-beads. Had it been three inches higher or lower it would have done minimaldamage, nothing that Jock McCrump with his gas welding equipment couldnot have repaired within a few hours.

Light is also thrown in Nintoku's annals on the method ofboatbuilding practised by the Japanese in the fourth century. He stripped off his rags and slippedit over his head. Then the first rockets soaredinto the night sky, and the masses of Dervish swarmed like columns ofants in the weird greenish light. Early next morning Yakub joined the large group of worshippers andpetitioners who were always gathered at t