Tintin [eyeing a skeleton in the sand]- A camel! Captain- A camel? Tintin- We’re in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Captain- The Sahara? Then that animal…died...died…died of… Tintin-...of thirst! Of course! [Captain faints] What’s the matter? Captain [coming to]- The land of…The land of thirst! Tintin- Courage, Captain, we aren’t finished yet!
-Tintin and the Crab with the Golden Claws
Tintin’s Captain was a habitual drunk. Khabīr Bilal Bakhīt was only an occasional drinker, and he said to me on Day 31, with more than a week of the Darb before us, Yā Khawaja, O Foreigner, Lissa, Lissa! Not yet, Still more!