Sawakin

Tokar, Teb and Tamasi, were made upon the gallant Sudani negroids, the Bisharin outlying Sawakin, who were battling for the holy cause of liberty and religion and for escape from Turkish task-masters and Egyptian tax-gatherers, not an English official in camp, after the death of the gallant and lamented Major Morice, was capable of speaking Arabic.

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In other respects Aydab has more the aspect of a village than a town, and it is seven days 'march north of Sawakin, where the chief of the Bedjas lives.'

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Sea north of Sawakin was uninhabited until in later years came fresh colonists from the Nile Valley, whose descendants still occupy it.

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Eight days after our arrival the news of the declaration of war came to Sawakin.

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Counting a day's march at twenty-five miles, this would place it near Halaib, which is 170 miles north of Sawakin.

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Personally we felt that we knew the condition of the country better than the authorities of Sawakin, who had never been there.

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These tombs, which are found dotted over the island, bear a remarkable resemblance to the tombs of the Bedja race, once dwelling on the shores of the Red Sea to the north of Sawakin, and subject to the Ethiopian emperor; they consist of enormous blocks of unhewn stone, inserted in the ground to encircle and cover the tombs, and this forms another link connecting the remains on the island with Abyssinia.

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Mount Erba on holidays from Sawakin in search of sport, no one had as yet been behind it, and thither we intended to go.

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There was another letter from the mamour and another from Sawakin and a most tremendous lot of consultations, and at last my husband sent a letter to the mamour: 'Your Excellency, -- I have decided to go by Erba and

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He was a tall, fine specimen of a Bishari sheikh, with his neck terribly scarred by a burn, to heal which he had been treated in hospital at Sawakin.

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