Kit leaves the body and sets off alone into the Sahara. He eventually dies beside her in their room. Kit transports the delirious Port to a French Foreign Legion post, but it has no doctor and she nurses him herself, becoming increasingly desperate at his condition. The hotel won't accommodate them from fear of infection. On the journey, Port contracts typhoid fever. Even after being informed by local officials that the passport can be recovered in Messad, Port decides to proceed by bus to El Ga'a with Kit in order to avoid a meeting with Tunner. In Bounoura, Port discovers his passport missing. Eric agrees but also steals Port's passport. Suspicious of Kit's relationship with Tunner, Port arranges for Eric Lyle to provide Tunner with transportation to Messad on the pretext that Port and Kit will meet him later. Tunner and Kit drink champagne and awake the next morning in Kit's hotel room after a drunken tryst. Port accepts the ride with the Lyles while Kit and Tunner take the train. Port and Kit once again encounter the Lyles and are offered a ride in their car to Boucif, their next destination, but are informed that there is no room for Tunner. Seeing his bed, he assumes that Tunner spent the night with Kit. As Kit and Tunner are preparing to leave, a disheveled Port arrives. Not wanting Tunner to know that Port stayed out all night, she removes the covers from his bed to make it appear that he slept there. The next morning Tunner arrives at Kit's room to take her shopping. Port quickly leaves and is chased from the camp by a mob. The two have sex and the prostitute attempts to steal his wallet. During his walk he meets a pimp who introduces him to a prostitute in a Berber encampment. After she refuses and rebuffs his romantic advances, Port angrily leaves. Port invites Kit to accompany him for a walk in the city. After arriving at the hotel, they sit in the hotel bar and are observed by an older man sitting alone at a table. Eric's mother keeps him constantly short of money so he is always asking for credit and loans. Lyle, a travel writer, and Eric, her adult son. While awaiting transport to a hotel, the group meets a pair of English travelers, Mrs. We're travelers.' While Tunner plans to return home in a few weeks, Port and Kit plan on staying for a year or two. Tunner observes, 'We're probably the first tourists they've had since the war,' to which Kit replies 'We're not tourists. Port Moresby and his wife Kit are accompanied by their friend George Tunner on a trip that will take them deep into the Sahara Desert. Three Americans from New York arrive in Oran, French Algeria in 1947.

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