Aftershocks continued to rattle Keping county in Xinjiang region, where the earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit late Monday causing 10 million yuan (1.9 million dollars) in losses, a ministry statement said.

In 1878, two years after Gordon had been appointed governor-general of the whole Sudan, Emin Effendi (he had Moslemized himself) was appointed governor of the Equatorial Province, which he found completely disorganized and demoralized, the happy hunting-ground of the slave raider.

To emphasize this point, Blake actually buries the text underground, and worms, rather than plant tendrils, divide the stanzas. And at the base of the plate, in the underword that has been created through devotion to a specific idea of death, we see the coffin, covered with turf, and marked with criss-crossed briars.

Mind you, this was years before everyone and their dog had a cell phone.