The Tragedy of the Korosko

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The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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A group of European tourists is enjoying its trip in Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko. They intend to travel to Abousir at the southern frontier of Egypt, after which the Dervish country starts. They are attacked and abducted by a marauding band of Dervish warriors.

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