Wasteland after wasteland. And when you multiply in your mind’s eye all the wastelands yet to come, a vague feeling of terror comes over you.
-Pierre Loti, February 1894, The Desert
Loti called it a “Solitude” while his translator used the word “Wasteland”, but KhairAllah might say Birriyya, which Lane has as, Ground without Herbage, or, Land Nearer to Desert than to Water, and gives as an example the verse, Birriyya Ba’dha Birriyya, […] After […], written by the Umayyad poet Ru’ūba ibn al-’Ajjāj (684-762), which quite possibly Loti’s Bedouin cameleers recited without Loti understanding a word they said.