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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sultan Yazid Za'ar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Raat-hu. This apparently harmless word suggests one similar in sound and meaning which gave some trouble in its day. Says Mohammed in the Koran (ii. 98)" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O ye who believe! ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ": so amongst early Christians they refused to give one another God-speed. Amongst Hindús it takes the form of refusing" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hukkah (pipe) and water" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surayyá" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Al-Ríf simply means lowland: hence there is a Ríf in the Nile-delta. The word in Europe is applied chiefly to the Maroccan coast opposite Gibraltar (not, as is usually supposed the North-Western seaboard) where the Berber-Shilhá race, so famous as the" }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zunnár," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mary's father" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And with thee be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings! See vol. ii. 146. The enslaved Princess had recognised her father's Wazir and knew that he could have but one object, which being a man of wit and her lord a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wa'llahi." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bi is the original particle of swearing, a Harf al-jarr (governing the genitive as Bi'lláhi) and suggesting the idea of adhesion:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wa (noting union) is its substitute in oath-formulć...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "not" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ": alluding to all forms of impotence, from dislike, natural deficiency or fascination, the favourite excuse. Easterns seldom attribute it to the true cause, weak action of the heart; but the Romans knew the truth when they described...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bab al-Bahr," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Batárikah" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O place of the white doe (Rím) of beauty! The girl's name was Maryam the Arab. form of Mary, also applied to the B.V. by Eastern Christians. Hence a common name of Syrian women is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Husn Maryam = (one endowed with the spiritual beauties o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Firásah, lit. = skill in judging of horse flesh (Faras) and thence applied, like" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kiyáfah," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hadis or saying of Mohammed, to whom are attributed many such shrewd aphorisms, e.g." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Allah defend us from the ire of the mild (tempered)." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Khák-bák," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nafísah," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nákús," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zarbu 'l-Nawákísí = the striking of the gongs, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zarbu 'l Nawá, Kísí = striking the departure signal: decide thou (fem. addressed ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sandúk al-Nuzur, lit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Al-Khaukhah," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Námúsiyah," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jáwashiyah," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Kayyimah, the fem. of" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sawwáhún = the Wanderers, Pilgrims, wandering Arabs, whose religion, Al-Islam, so styled by its Christain opponents. And yet the new creed was at once accepted by whole regions of Christians, and Mauritania, which had rejected Roman paganism and Gothic Christianity. This was e.g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kafrá" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wa Kabrun Harbin fí-makánin Kafrin; Wa laysa Kurba Kabri Harbin Kabrun." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Harb's corse is quartered in coarse wold accurst; Nor close to corse of Harb is other corse;—" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bilád al-Rúm," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Akhawán shakíkán" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Forerunner and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Overtaker," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zujáj bikr whose apparent meaning would be glass in the lump and unworked. Zaj áj bears, however, the meaning of clove-nails (the ripe bud of the clove-shrub) and may possibly apply to one of the manifold" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alfáz Adwiyah" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The two rests (Al-ráhatáni)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as opposed to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wiswás" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Túfán see vol. {iv. 136}: here it means the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Deluge of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Robin," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will never set the Thames on fire, Dick," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall never want to, father, he would reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not see that learning will ever be much good to me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should not be surprised, Dick said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope it won't snow until we get back," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, Dick answered, looking at the clouds." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should not be su...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will cut you each a hunch of cake, and when you have eaten that and had a glass of fresh milk you had best start at once. It is bitterly cold, and we are going to have snow: The sooner you are home, the better." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How different things look in a snow-storm! Dick said, as they stopped for breath and shelter under the lee of a wall." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, Tom, but I am not quite sure that we are going straight; I do not know what wall this is." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know where we are, Tom?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not in the least," }, { "from": "human", "value": "This ought to be the last valley, Dick said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let us try the left first," }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no shepherd's hut. Certainly, this is not the valley. What on earth are we to do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shut up, Tom Jackson. What are you thinking about? This is no time for howling like a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Tom, set to work; get some stones off the wall on both sides, and build up two other walls against this; three feet wide inside will do, and just long enough to lie in. Here, Jimmy, you help; it will keep you awake, and, you see, the higher we make the walls the snugger it ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Jimmy, you chuck the snow out. Tom and I will go, one each way, along the wall; likely enough we may come upon some bushes--they often grow in shelter of the walls: if we can find a few sticks we will cover the house over. Lots of these stones are a couple of feet long, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us keep awake as long as we can," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't feel inclined to sleep at all, Tom answered;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am only afraid about Jimmy, Dick said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It feels warmer t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holloa! he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I am awake now, Dick said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? It is not morning yet. I seem to have been asleep a long time, and don't my bones just ache? Jimmy, old boy, are you all righ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us tie four of them together, Dick said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have plenty of string in my pocket." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Tom, help me to work it about a bit, so as to press the snow all round, and make a sort of tube." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have only just reached the top, Dick said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall eat some snow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard that that makes you more thirsty, Dick remarked;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They must have given up all hope by this time, Dick said, on the fifth morning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That may be weeks, Tom said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We can live a long time here, Dick replied confidently." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just let us have a look down into the bottom, one of the boys said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is that? one exclaimed suddenly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look, there is a little red flag flying down there--come along." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps it is not theirs, the eldest of the party said presently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anyhow I had better take it off and carry it home." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was pulled down again, he said in awestruck tones." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will swear it was pulled down again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, nonsense! one of the others sai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can it be?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We had better go back and tell them at home," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We can't do that; no one would believe us. Look here, you fellows, and he glanced round at the bright sky," }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halloa! he shouted;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, came back in reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The two Jacksons and Humphreys." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hurrah!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you all r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have found them; we have found them, they panted out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are all alive." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We have found them, sir; they are all alive!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank God! thank God! the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, wife, thanks be to God, it is true--the boys are alive; I am just going with these men to dig them out. They are snowed up in a hut. Now, Jane, get a large basket, and put in it lots of bread, and bacon-- the men who are working will want something; fill the largest stone j...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you still alive, Dick?--it is I, your father!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, father, we are all alive, and we shall be all right now you have come. Don't get too near the stick; we are afraid of the hole closing up, and smothering us." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, working up hill we must be at the hut in a few feet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a wall or something," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like the state of your wife; she has always been weak in her lungs, and I fear that the anxiety she went through has somehow accentuated her former tendency to consumption. The air of this place-- you see she was born in the south--is too keen for her. If I were you I wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There always seem to be Kaffir wars going on, one boy said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think that sort of excitement will be nice, Dick replied;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You seem to know all about the place," }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I think I have pretty well made up my mind; the doctor is telling me that my poor little chap is not likely to live long; his mother is wrapped up in him, and will never like the place again;--so I think on all grounds a change will be good. I can't come out with you, beca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may pay dearer, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It may be that all will be right, one had told him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is Secoceni, father? Dick asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The books we have say nothing about him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Mr Humphreys s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, Mrs Humphreys said to her husband one evening," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Next to being a learned man, his father said to him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If a farmer is to be able properly to look after men at work, he must be able to do the work himself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a horrid sell! Tom Jackson exclaimed angrily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't understand his going like that after I fairly brought him down." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I expect, Dick said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is awful, Dick," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Dick agreed;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are we to do in the morning, Dick?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it is fine it will be easy enough; we shall put our saddles on our heads and walk eastward. I have got a little pocket-compass which father gave me in case I should at any time get lost, so we ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have heard, the former said to Mr Humphreys," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is a troublesome neighbour, Mr Humphreys said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They say that he has 30,000 fighting-men, and in that case he ought to be able to overrun both...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, Dick, Mr Humphreys had said, when his son asked him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have brought down four teams of sixteen oxen each, Dick said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is right, my lads, the officer said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "he said, smiling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir, Dick said." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lights out," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the columns have any fighting, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I vote we go up again, Tom said the next morning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The general has gone forward with most of the white troops, and there is sure to be fighting to-day. We shall have nothing to do, and may as well go up there as anywhere else." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is going to be a fight! Dick exclaimed, as they gained their look-out;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Things look very bad, Dick, Tom said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think we had better stay where we are, Tom, and wait and see what occurs; we have a splendid view of the fight, and if our fellows meet them we shall see it all; but if--oh, look there, Tom!" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is frightful, frightful, Tom! I cannot bear to look at it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will they come up here, do you think, Dick?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I don't think so, Dick replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They could hardly have seen us come up here, even if they had been on the look-out on the hills, and as they re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can hear firing now, Dick said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear it is all over there too, Dick said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever shall we do, Dick?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have not the least idea, Tom. At any rate there is nothing to be done at present. We should be assegaied in a moment if we were to go down; let's go back to our old look-out." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are they taking us now, I wonder?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose they are going to attack some English party on the march; our men are hardly likely, I should think, again to be caught napping, as they were at Isandula." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An officer, being the only one present with a party of soldiers actually engaged with the enemy, is not under any pretext whatever justified in deserting them, and thus by so doing abandoning them to their fate." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He says, sir, that there is a great Zulu army marching below." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quick, Tom!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Run! run!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bravo! boys, bravo!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you been paid for the waggons, father?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, my boy, for there was a notice that the owners of all waggons and teams destroyed at Isandula would be paid at once. As there was a record kept of the ownership of those which accompanied...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Colonel Pearson at once commenced his preparations for a siege. Three moderate-sized brick erections were turned into store-houses, and the church into a hospital, the tower making a capital look-out; from this a splendid view was obtained, the hill by the Tugela being clearly v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the second week in March the 57th and 91st Regiments arrived from England. One hundred and sixty men were brought over from the garrison of Mauritius, and a few days later the 3rd battalion of the 60th Regiment also arrived. These assembled on the Tugela on the 27th, and that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Brigadier-General Wood's Flying Column." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have come to ask, sir, if you will allow us to go with your column. We are in charge of waggons here, but they are not going. We were at the battle, and saw the whole thing, and were taken prisoners afterwards and carried to Umbelleni's kraal, where we were liberated when Col...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You seem to have plenty of pluck and coolness, youngsters, the general said, when they had finished." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In future you need not trouble to ask for permission to accompany me whenever the cavalry go out, providing we have natives mounted wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, we are quite strong enough--besides, we have all our friends around us, and with my glass I can see General Marshall's cavalry coming up." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prepare to mount," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have made a long march, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Generally, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I go with six waggons, but I was very unlucky last time; the tze-tze-fly attacked my animals, most of which died, and the natives took advantage of my position to make an attack upon me. I beat them off, but was fina...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jump up at once, Dick; I want you to ride over with a letter to Mr Jackson. We have pretty well settled that you shall go with Mr Harvey, and I am writing to make an offer to Mr Jackson for the use of his waggon for six months." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I don't know, Mr Jackson said, when he had finished the letter;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr Harvey says, Tom, that of course he goes to trade, but that at the same time he does a lot of shooting, both for the sake of the skins and for the meat for the men. He says that he often meets with lions, hippopotami, and sometimes elephants--sometimes they meet with hostile ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you are not contented to stop at home, Dick, Mrs Jackson said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't let him get into any scrapes, Mrs Jackson," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have no faith whatever, Mrs Jackson said, smiling," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your father thinks that it will be for your good, my boy, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "While you are away, Dick, his father said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are now, Mr Harvey said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is bad news indeed, Mr Harvey said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am surprised to see so many guns. Dick said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is the result of a very bad system, Mr Harvey replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must look out for lions to-night, Mr Harvey said, when the caravan encamped near a large pool which in the wet season formed part of a river, and was now for the most part dry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must laager our waggons, and get as many cattle insid...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think, Tom said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will do no such thing, Mr Harvey remarked;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see a bit of rough wood, that looks as if it were the top of a log underneath the water." }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think of your log now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, it was an alligator, Tom said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who would have thought it?--it looked just like a bit of an old tree." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are a troop of them about, Mr Harvey said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There must be a score of them at least, Mr Harvey said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quiet, you silly beasts, Dick said, leaning out of the waggon in which he had taken his place;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think we have done with them yet, he said;" } ]