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ACROSS THE DESERT OF LOP. 135
a good meal of rice and camel-meat, he disappeared into
the darkness.
About two hours after he had started there arose what
I dreaded most, namely a tempest from the north-east.
Clouds of drift-sand were swept with hurricane violence
along the ground and the air became thick with dust.
When I looked out of the tent, it was as black as pitch
;
I couldn’t see my hand before me. " Poor Ordek," thought
The Scene of.Ordek’s Discovery—Photographed a Year Later.
I ; "I hope he will have the good sense to turn back."
Next morning there were only two men to load up the
caravan, so that I had to lend a helping hand myself.
Then on we went again. Gloomily and eerily rang out
the camel-bells in the dark desert, and the storm whistled
past our ears ; but while we on the one hand welcomed
it, because it kept off the burning heat and helped us on
our way, we on the other hand dreaded it because it might
cost Ordek his life.
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