CHAPTER III

EL HABIBKA Once again was it proven that attack is the best defence and that an invaluable principle of strategy is expressed in the apophthegm, "Put yourself in your enemy's place, and think as he would think." The Sheikh Magician was well aware that the Touareg attacks at dawn, and therefore expects to be attacked at dawn. For this reason he attacked at evening, when cooking-fires were alight, food being prepared, "tents" being made with camel-rug and sage-bush, camels being fed and watered at the _ghadir_, and a…