It was a clear need, like oases to the desert traveller.

She had heard of desert travellers dying of thirst at the water-hole when they allowed their cattle and horses to rush ahead and trample the water into thick mud.

Sabat alighted and from long experience changed his form to that of a bronzed desert traveller, clad only in a loincloth, the heat blistering his skin.

Disorientated, a desert traveller bewildered and frightened in a sudden blinding sandstorm that obliterated everything, trying to decide whether it was an hallucination, a recollection of some past macabre event or whether it was actually happening.

The one who led them was a tall, menacing figure swathed in the woollen robe of the desert traveller, but his head was bared His skin was very dark, and deeply pitted with the scars of the smallpox.

Also visible are the names of famous desert travellers Edmonstone, Drov.

He swung her round and set her on her feet, looking at her as might a desert traveller who had just found water.

A notice on the left wall warned desert travellers to report to the police before embarking.

See if you can spot such recurring motifs as the khamsa (hand of Fatima) and the Southern Cross, the constellation that guided desert travellers.