nugger

I was hardly prepared for this journey -- one, probably, of twelve days -- for my campaigning outfit, which I was compelled to leave on board my nugger on the Nile, had not yet arrived in Berber.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 Various

British force and two hundred and forty Soudanese (they also had in tow a nugger laden with dhura), they proceeded towards Berber some distance, and then, returning for their important work of relief, they pressed on to Khartoum in the face of the greatest dangers from the numerous fanatical Arabs, until they could see the city, and found to their horror and disappointment that Gordon's flag was torn down.

General Gordon Saint and Soldier J. Wardle

On the gorse-grown common above Hamley, David and Faith, and David's mother Mercy, had felt the same soul of things stirring -- in the green things of green England, in the arid wastes of the Libyan desert, on the bosom of the Nile, where Mahommed Hassan now lay in a nugger singing a song of passion, Nature, with burning voice, murmuring down the unquiet world its message of the Final Peace through the innumerable years.

The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

On the gorse-grown common above Hamley, David and Faith, and David's mother Mercy, had felt the same soul of things stirring -- in the green things of green England, in the arid wastes of the Libyan desert, on the bosom of the Nile, where Mahommed Hassan now lay in a nugger singing a song of passion, Nature, with burning voice, murmuring down the unquiet world its message of the Final Peace through the innumerable years.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

On the gorse-grown common above Hamley, David and Faith, and David's mother Mercy, had felt the same soul of things stirring -- in the green things of green England, in the arid wastes of the Libyan desert, on the bosom of the Nile, where Mahommed Hassan now lay in a nugger singing a song of passion, Nature, with burning voice, murmuring down the unquiet world its message of the Final Peace through the innumerable years.

The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 6 Gilbert Parker 1897