"He's probably the greatest cow herder in the history of the African continent."

Balarama spent his childhood as a cow herder with his brother Krishna.

He must be the cow herder, ', says Simon.

The cow herder does not look like other men we have seen in Changmian, the ones with coldcoarsened hands and home-chopped hair.

The two strange encounters, first with the kids and now with the cow herder, have put a pall on any sort of romantic talk.

The young man, who is not a cow herder at all but a modern-day bandit, stealing Simon's passport.

Ashta's husband, who has been in Libya for eight years, working as a cow herder, has cast her off, abandoning her and their two children.

She went to her father, a farmer and cow herder.

First, though, the war must end, and so it may be a long time before the cow herder goes home.

Here the buffalo refuses to budge from his hiding spot, leaving the cow herder to find an alternate musical solution to his problem.