Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King

Author:Dean King [King, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 0759509670
Publisher: Time Warner
Published: 2011-07-12T18:30:00+00:00

Riley searched the horizon. He saw nothing. The other sailors could not make out any sign of a rider either, but Hamet looked delighted as he altered their course to due east. Two hours later the sailors glimpsed the small outline of a camel on the horizon. By sunset, they had reached a large drove of camels and herders, who invited them to their camp. It was after dark when they reached four tents on the plain. They stopped at a distance and collected brush for the fire.

After traveling forty miles in fourteen hours without food or water, the sailors were in bad shape. Their wounds had reopened from the jolting, and their "various and complicated sufferings," wrote Riley, caused them great discomfort. They were certainly feeling the effects of scurvy or some other form of malnutrition. They had no shelter to protect them from the wind and no sand to lie on, only the spiky hardpan. They had been promised food, but on the desert such promises, they knew, were fleeting. As the hours passed, they lost hope for anything but milk, which would be served around midnight, if at all.

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