A family takes refuge from the Simoom wind in the Sahara desert. They haid behind camels and lie on the ground under sheets. Le Simoun. Handcolored lithograph by Emile Lemaitre from Munerelle’s Les Phenomenes et Curiosites de la Nature (Natural Phenomena and Curiosities), Libraire Derivaux, Strasbourg, 1856.

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