bled-el-jereed

Updated: June 8, 2025

Ask the Arab what it is to be "smoored" by sand; question the wild Bedouin of the Bled-el-Jereed, the Tuarick and Tiboo of the Eastern Desert, they will tell you it is danger, often death! Little dreamt the four sleepers as they lay unconscious under that swirl of sand, little even would they have suspected, if awake, that there was danger in the situation.

Mayne Reid - The Boy Slaves