Note 450 — Chapter XVI · FIRST PART OF THE WAR IN THE SUDAN, 1884-85—EXPEDITION UP THE NILE.
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The horses had all been fifty-eight hours, and some even as many as seventy-five hours, without water (Nineteenth Century , loc. cit.). The camels had not received anything to drink for six or seven days, having been previously accustomed to be watered every second or third day (From Korti to Khartum , p. 95).