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Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan

Name: Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
Author: R. M. Ballantyne

R. M. Ballantyne

Read by docdlmartin, Belinda McReynolds, Cbteddy, Jessie Yun, Alexandria Adair, gracesilvey, MaryAnn, czandra, ShrimpPhish and JenNoel · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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The False Step (22:47)
Shows some of the Consequences of the False Step, and introduces the Reader to Peculiar Company (25:37)
The “Sailors’ Welcome”—Miles has a Night of it and Enlists—His Friend Armstrong has an Agreeable Surprise at the Soldiers’ Institute (29:45)
The Embarkation Jetty—And Nipped in the Bud (30:24)
Difficulties met and overcome (18:47)
The Unfinished Letter—Too Late! (12:04)
Miles begins to discover himself—Has a few Rough Experiences—And falls into Pea-Soup, Salt-Water, and Love (24:11)
Has Reference to many Things connected with Mind, Matter, and Affections (16:54)
Our Hero meets a Friend unexpectedly in Peculiar Circumstances, and has a very Strange Encounter (21:19)
Off to the Wars (10:31)
New and Sad mingled with Curious Experiences (7:11)
In Action at last (13:05)
Tells of some of the Trials, Uncertainties, Dangers, and Disasters of War (13:31)
Describes some of Osman Digna’s Eccentricities and Other Matters (13:05)
Athletics—A New Acquaintance turns up—An Expedition undertaken, followed by a Race for Life (16:05)
Letters from Home—Flynn is Exalted and brought Low—Rumours of War in the Air (14:43)
The Expedition—Enemy reported—Miles in a Dilemma (17:25)
Wherein are described an Assault, a Furious Fight, and some Strange Personal Encounters (17:03)
Refers to Sergeant Hardy, Amytoor-Lawyer Sutherland, and other Matters (16:42)
Old Friends in New Aspects (19:28)
Shows how the Lady of the Institute discourses to the Sergeant, how Jack-Tars go out on the Spree, and how Music Conquers Warriors (15:10)
Led into Captivity (20:03)
Shows that Suffering tends to draw out Sympathy (17:39)
Adventures among the Soudanese, and Strange Meeting with the Mahdi (20:45)
Miles is promoted—Molloy overthrows the Mahdi, and is elevated for so doing (16:19)
Cruel Treatment—Despair Followed by Hope and a Joyful Discovery (23:58)
In which Hopes and Fears rise and fall (15:51)
A Horrible Situation (19:25)
Describes a few Meetings and several Surprises (16:22)
Conclusion (25:08)