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  • White Nile, with a few porterages, to the Great Equatorial Lakes, and west through the Bahr el Ghazal country.

    Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

  • She had made him ridiculous all the morning with his frock-coat and top-hat and his porterages, and if forgiveness entailed any more of these nightmare sacraments of friendliness, he felt that he would be unable to endure the fatiguing accessories of the regenerate state.

    Miss Mapp 1903

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