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While The Patient Slept ended up being terribly boring (I wonder if it was supposed to kick off a ‘Thin Man’-style series), but I enjoyed the chemistry between Aline MacMahon and Guy Kibbee.
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Bruce particularly and emphatically mentions the extraordinary angle which the Kibbee here makes.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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From the sources of the Kibbee and the Yabous, it stretches eastwards to Gurague, and thence, still eastward, by the Aroosi, Galla, and Hurrur or Harrar, to Cape Guardafui, approaching in some places to within sixty miles or less of the sea of Babel-Mandeb; the elevation to the east of Berbera decreases to about 5000 feet, and from which numerous streams flow both to the north and to the south.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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The early Portuguese travellers expressly state, that six days 'journey due east from Sakka, and at one day's journey from the capital of Gingiro, having first crossed a very high mountain, they crossed the Kibbee, a rapid rocky stream, and as large as the Blue River where they had crossed it in the country of the Gongas.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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Limmu; and bending its course south-east, next east, and then south-east, it forms the lake Tchocha, and afterwards rolls over the great cataract Dumbaro, soon after which it joins the Kibbee, when the united stream tales the name of the Gochob, or Jub, by which it is known till it enters the sea.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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Going eastward, we come to the elevated mountainous ranges which give birth to the Bahr-el-Abiad to the south, the Gochob, the Kibbee, and their numerous tributary streams to the east and south-east, and the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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Gingiro, pursuing their course due east to the capital of Cambat, they again crossed the Zebee, or Kibbee, _larger_ than it was to the westward of Gingiro, but less rapid and rocky; its waters resembling _melted butter_, (hence its name,) owing, no doubt, to the calcareous ridges through which it flowed.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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Gojob, (as the Doctor writes it,) the Omo, the Kibbee or Gibe, the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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The Kibbee waters the small but elevated country of Nono, and passes very near Sakka.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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Below the junction with the Dedhasa, the Kibbee receives the Gala river, coming from the north-east, and from the confines of Gurague and Kortshassie.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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