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Show B'V in Desperation Attacked Water Tank 'n February, 1024, ten months be-re be-re our journey (by motor across the Galium) our predecessors had left on "lelr Wssage in the midst of the t'lneznift, a big gasoline tank filled w"ter and hermetically sealed, Meni"t le Kei-rllis, In L'F.eho rie "Is. As our route followed their "eel marks, we came upon It. "M imagine our astonishment to ..'id Wretched out beside this tank lf dried body of an immense vulture. "st in the immensity of the desert, hero there was not even an insect w company or food, but endowed Ul a marvelous instinct that we ve not yet begun to fathom, this lri knew there was water here, uitlier he directed his flight, "e could see where he had cast '"self -,pon the tank and attacked it b''sterately with his beak. The metal "re the marks of his USSiUllt . t),e wind was covered with his feathers aJ"e he had beaten himself vainly 5;'inst it. And he had died the sains ,!' S;haran death that had over-Ken over-Ken the camel drivers 70 iv-llm I |