“Those Touaregs are still following us,” Hoessein says animatedly. “We have seen their tracks, approximately four kilometers to the front. The other two scouts also eagerly tell the others about the tracks of the Touaregs.
“Let us move forward,” Hoessein orders, “but keep your eyes peeled.”
They move forward again, accompanied by the two scouts, who immediately spread out again. Then, on Hoessein’s orders, two riders move to the back of the procession to form a kind of rearguard. They leave the fallen Arab right there in the sand, take his horse, and then the leader of the caravan orders the Legion men to start walking again.
They are moving across a flat sand plateau, and there are not any dunes here, merely big sand wrinkles that had landed here during the last sandstorm. Next, they t
