Chapter 3
In the Aduar
Abdullah al Shamoun breathed deeply. He had opened the fabric door of his tent and watched the aduar in its entirety. A hundred tents and more than three hundred kibandas housed the contingent of human beings under his command, in total about six hundred Arabs of both sexes and one thousand men and women belonging to different Bantu ethnic groups that in his long travel throughout East Africa had remained as his subjects. Among them there were two hundred forty warriors trained by his side and put in command of his deputy Ahmed ben Assaff, whom he had found as a young child wandering alone in the vastness of the savannah, and who was selected as the husband of his only daughter Farrah and to succeed Abdullah in the position of head of the human group that followed
