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Updated: May 5, 2025
Then the only life in sight except ourselves was eagles, nervously obsessed with goings-on on the horizon. I counted as many as a dozen at one time, wheeling swiftly, and circling higher for a wider view, but not one swooped to strike. Once, as we turned into a track that they told us led to El Oghlu, we saw on a hill to our left a small square building, gutted by fire.
Somewhere about noon we rode down a gorge into the village of El Oghlu. It was a miserable place, with a miserable, tiny kahveh in the midst of it, and Kagig set that alight before our end of the column came within a quarter of a mile of it. We burned the rest of the village, for he sent back Ephraim to order no shelter left for the regiments that would surely come and hunt us down.
But the business took time, and we were farther than ever behind Kagig when the last wooden roof began to cockle and crack in the heat. Will and Gloria were somewhere on in front, and Fred and I began to put on speed to try to overtake them. But from the time of leaving the burned village of El Oghlu there began to be a new impediment. "We are not taking the shortest way," said Ephraim.
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