…vague stories of something seen in the distance by wandering men looking for lost camels…
-R.A. Bagnold, review of L.E. Almásy’s Recentes Explorations, Geographical Journal, March 1937
Stories in the desert. Without them, we would have had forty very boring days. KhairAllah’s tale of looking for his lost camel, of tracking it day and night to the thief’s camp, of buying it back out of larcenous hock, of returning it to the herd and finding yet another camel stolen, the same stuttering drover having fallen asleep again on night watch, ended with…A-A-After all that!