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Table of Contents

1. Ali Finds the Dalul

2. Fugitive

3. Ambush

4. The Hadj

5. The Unpardonable Sin

6. The Strange Ship

7. Another Pilgrimage

8. Trouble

9. Lieutenant Beale

10. The Expedition

11. The Wilderness

12. The Road

13. Reunion

JIM KJELGAARD

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Jim Kjelgaard

Published by Good Press, 2021

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It was a land of low hills, or hillocks, whose sides and narrow crests supported a straggling growth of Aleppo pine intermixed with scrubby brush. There was more than average rainfall, so the trees were bigger and not as parched as those found in very arid regions. The camel was in a gulley between the second and third hills. Ali climbed the hill, slunk behind an Aleppo pine, peered around the trunk and gasped.

There was a camp in the gulley—and a string of baggage camels and men—but at first glance Ali saw nothing except the dalul. Of a deep fawn color, which stamped it as one of the Nomanieh dromedaries, it was still so young that it had not yet attained full growth. Located apart from the rest, each separate leg was held by a separate rope, and the bonds were stretched so tightly that the beast could hardly move. A fifth rope, that encircled its neck, was equally tight.

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