CHAPTER II

EL HAMEL Towards evening of the same day, a desert caravan of semi-nomad Arabs--"peaceful" herdsmen, armed to the teeth, and desiring to fight no foe of greater strength than themselves, followed in the track of the Touareg raiders. At their head rode their aged Sheikh, a venerable white-bearded gentleman, with the noble face of a Biblical patriarch, and much of the philosophy, standards, ideals and habits of such--a modern Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob. Beside him rode an Esau, a hairy man, a mighty hunter before the L…