One night, a camel driver came to the fire where the Englishman and the boy were sitting.

"Once you get into the desert, there's no going back," said the camel driver.

The camel driver, though, seemed not to be very concerned with the threat of war.

The camel driver had asked what the circumstances were under which God would allow him to see the future.

God had shown the boy a part of the future, the camel driver thought.

And, as the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day.

Some of the camel drivers became quite well known in their own way.

An entirely different camel driver was trying to get it away from them.

They got up behind the camel drivers and set forth.

In his youth, he had worked as a camel driver.