He sees two Dulac guards standing there, armed with rifles. In any case, it would be impossible to try and reach them during the day, as he would have to move over open terrain to reach them. He looks with longing at the two vehicles, and then he looks away after carefully engraving the two vehicles’ positions carefully into his brain.
Teuns spy out the whole lay of the land around himself. The reeds behind him stretch some distance out into the desert, and where the reeds stop, the desert suddenly begins. There is no other hiding place. Behind him, he can luckily see no Dulacs, and it seems as if everyone is concentrated around the hut.
Teuns leans back on the cool ground and rests for a while. After he had eaten the rusks, he felt much better and stronger. He does not feel so deathly e
