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A huge raft of waterweed was sailing down the centre of the channel. Their bayonet bladeswere dulled, and their arms black with clotted Arab blood. The memory of his last encounter with those weapons wasetched deeply on his mind. Osman swung downfrom the saddle.

He became invisible. The flotilla ofgunboats, with a crash of cannon, engaged the Dervish forts on bothbanks, which guarded the river approaches to the city. And it is good. She'll be much saferthere, and easier to load.