El Sakhara

pencil, Slatter, 187 x 137 mm

'El Sakhara. Chap. XXXII' typeset brc of page. Two mounted desert raiders, guns slung over their backs, in right foreground, tree in left foreground, vast rock in middle distance. Illustration printed in black/grey on natural paper colour, bordered with a drawn black line.

p 158 [tr ed p 179] - ' We now saw that, of the Sukhur, two stood together to the north-east, great grey striated piles of volcanic rock, reddish coloured where protected from the burning of the sun and the bruising of sandy winds. The third Sakhara, which stood a little apart, was the bubble rock which had roused my curiosity. Seen from near by, it more resembled a huge football half-buried in the ground. It, too, was brown in colour. The south and east faces were quite smooth and unbroken, and its regular, domed head was polished and shining and had fine cracks running up and over it like stitched seams: altogether one of the strangest hills in Hejaz, a country of strange hills. We rode gently towards it, through a thin shower of rain which came slanting strangely and beautifully across the sunlight.'

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