To-morrow, if a wind comes, perhaps there will not be one grain left, but all will be carried up into the air again.

An Arab will sometimes have to go fifty or a hundred miles to go round a drift.

Suppose he tries to cross, his camel breaks its legs, and he himself is sucked in and swallowed." "How long will this be ?" "No one can say." "Well, Cochrane, it's all in our favour.

The longer the chase the better chance for the fresh camels!" and for the hundredth time he looked back at the long, hard skyline behind them.

There was the great, empty, dun-coloured desert, but where the glint of steel or the twinkle of white helmet for which he yearned?
And soon they cleared the obstacle in their front.