Hadassah Colon

English

28 October, 19:37

Which detail in "The Oasis: Africa" DOES NOT support the idea that the Sahara Desert is perilous? Question 12 options: Misery of hunger, torture of thirst; unending discomfort of swarming lice. One day the dreaded sirocco had swept upon us. This danger past, we had lost another day making a wide detour to the east in order to avoid the fierce, tameless Tuaregs, who were marauding in the district. Canopus, the great star of prehistoric Egypt, blazed white above the horizon; Sirius shone like a peerless diamond, and Aldebaran like a ruby.