The child he had been was less free than the sunburnt man with bald head and grey beard who sat by his wife in his boat.

It consisted of a few tents and an area marked off as a helipad, and total present population evidently comprised three more or less sunburnt men.

A sunburnt man with a grey beard, in white clothes and wearing a helmet, came to meet us.

The sunburnt man squinted at him confidentially, lowered his voice still more.

He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner.

The soldiers looked no better than men who had been riding for weeks could look-dirty, sunburnt even darker than usual, and tired.

Followed at once by a young man, dark-haired, sunburnt, wearing jeans and a T-shirt.

They were met at the exit by a perspiring, sunburnt man in a tight blue uniform.

Mr Hameed is a middle-aged, sunburnt man who looks after this oasis of the dead.

A new person had stepped onto the platform: a muscular, sunburnt man in dark military fatigues, carrying a black canvas duffel.