And comes back totally alive.
Bleak. The weather had worsened considerably and to venture forth with the necessary camel force in thick sand dunes through the mountains of Moab which lay between Tafileh and the north would have been madness. If the camels did not die of exposure, they would present an easy target to a few Turkish horsemen as they plunged and slithered clumsily up and down the sandy mountain defiles.