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The sick, wet and filthy as they were, had to be hurried away in dhoolies to the chapels and churches again.

From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.

The stream of ambulance was incessant—covered mule-waggons, little ox-carts, green dhoolies carried by indomitable Hindoos, knee-deep in water, and indifferent to every kind of death.

From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.

The dhoolies quickly came and bore the wounded away to the Wesleyan Chapel.

From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.

They were still too weak to walk any distance and had to be carried in roughly-constructed "dhoolies" by the Haussas.

From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Prater, Ernest

Summoned by telephone, the dhoolies came quickly up and bore them away, together with the remains of the dead.

From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.