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I'll be away for a few days for minor surgery. Sorry I didn't get the final section recorded first. I'll pick up again soon.

Steve

Into the Sudan at last...

Section 19, Ch. 20 To Furawia on Short Rations
https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_19_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (23:26)

Maybe the borders were different then? That's a very perceptive guess, Ava. Hassanein's journey was made in 1923 (published in 1925), but the border wasn't finally set along 25ºE until 1925/1926. Interesting enough, the northern portion, close to the Mediterranean (the settled parts) was haggled ov...

What good is a caravan that doesn't get lost in a blinding sandstorm at least once...and at night?

Section 17, Ch. 16 Night Marches to Erdi
https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_17_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (32:28)

I'm sorry I'm so much behind, but I'll be catching up soon, promised! No worries, Ava. We're not on a schedule, so listen when you feel like listening. :D Section 17, Ch. 16 The Lost Oases: Ouenat https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_16_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (22:17) We do this for fun, righ...

Finally! The first of the "lost" oases. I checked Hassanein's coordinates for Arkenu, and they're very close. But Jabal Arkanu is in Libya, not Egypt. Tsk, tsk. :lol: Section 15, Ch.16 The Lost Oases: Arkenu https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_15_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (22:45) Stil...

Don't go! It's too dangerous! You'll die! :D Section 13, Ch.14 Kufra: Old Friends and a Change in Plan https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_13_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (21:07) Section 14, Ch. 15 Kufra: Its Place on the Map https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_14_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (2...

In which we learn more about camels than we knew we needed to know... :shock: Section 11, Ch.12 The Road to Zieghen Well https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_11_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (37:11) Section 12, Ch.13 The Changing Desert and a Corrected Map https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoa...

"Singed slippers are a mark of distinction in the desert that any Bedouin girl cherishes." Indeed...

Section 10, Chapter 11, On the Trek
https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_10_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (29:21)

I've just listened to section 2 - PL OK! Thank you! :D As for that shuffling noise, I can hear it at 00:15 00:20 00:38 00:56 1:27 - that's the most pronounced; I stopped writing down further ones. I listened carefully, both to the original Audacity project file and the mp3 file, with the gain crank...

Section 08, Chapter 9 Sand-Storms and the Road to Jalo
https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_08_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (16:11)

Section 09, Chapter 10 The Oasis at Jalo
https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_09_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (32:27)

In which we learn the surprisingly gentle price of treachery among the Senussi... :wink: Section 06, Chapter 7, The Peace of Jagbub. https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_06_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (13:18) Section 07, Chapter 8, Meals and Medicine https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_...

Chapters 8 and 9 are also PL OK! :clap: Thank you! :D I like the term "overgrown storms" - sounds much better than simple "hurricanes". :lol: Overgrown indeed...we had to outrun one crossing the North Atlantic. Our ship was a big liner--the Maasdam--but even so the Captain pulle...

The Libyan desert must have been a lawless place before the coming of the Senussi Brotherhood!

Section 05, Chapter 6, The Senussis
https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/lostoases_05_hassanein_128kb.mp3 (21:39)

I've marked it PL OK, but I want you to know that I'm hearing some background noise here and there. It's not constant, and to me it sounds like... as if somebody shifts a piece of paper around on a table. It's hard to describe, but it's one of those sounds I find really irritating... If you have an...