The secret of the Sahara : Kufara . ^B^^WWI I1 SAVED RIDA ES SEXUSSI PLANS FOR THE FLIGHT 33 put layers of straw and a few tins which could be seenthrough carefully arranged chinks. We sorted out anextra weeks provisions to add to those we had alreadyprepared and the rest we put into big sacks, with theintention of sending these latter at midnight, when thespies were sleeping peacefully, to some place where theycould be stored until the dilatory camels arrived and thecaravan started. They would then be packed unosten-tatiously with all the rest of the loads and when wejoined the caravan a few
The secret of the Sahara : Kufara . ^B^^WWI I1 SAVED RIDA ES SEXUSSI PLANS FOR THE FLIGHT 33 put layers of straw and a few tins which could be seenthrough carefully arranged chinks. We sorted out anextra weeks provisions to add to those we had alreadyprepared and the rest we put into big sacks, with theintention of sending these latter at midnight, when thespies were sleeping peacefully, to some place where theycould be stored until the dilatory camels arrived and thecaravan started. They would then be packed unosten-tatiously with all the rest of the loads and when wejoined the caravan a few days journey on the way toAujela we should recover our most necessary ourselves, with the tent, two rolls of bedding, afortnights provisions and two suit-cases chiefly contain-ing films, medicine, apparatus, candles, soap, etc., woulddisappear the following night in Beduin clothes. I confess to feeling a certain pang when I realisedthat I must leave every single European garment behindexcept a pair of riding boots and
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