Rrisa's remark, therefore, was an Oriental way of wishing the Sheik back into Hell.] Night passed with no alarm, quietly save for the yelping and quarreling of the jackals and hyenas at work beyond the dunes.

Early morning found the Legionaries again at work; and so for five days they toiled.

The Legion was composed of picked men, skilled in science and deep in technical wisdom.

With what tools still remained from the time when all surplus weight had been jettisoned, and with some improvised apparatus, they set vigorously to work repairing the engines, fitting new rudder-plates, patching up the floats and providing the burned propellers with metal blades.
Metal enough they had at hand, by cutting out dispensable partitions from the interior.

And beavers never worked as these men worked in spite of the fierce smitings of the tropic sun.