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The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885

Note 113 — Chapter XLI · THE ADVANCE ON METAMMEH.

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The story is told of one of the soldiers who on hearing the creaking and groaning of one of the "sakheas," or waterwheels (a sound which the troops had not heard since leaving Korti), exclaimed, "We can't be far off now; I can hear them blooming musical boxes again."

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