Word: ghalib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walk in the wrong direction. None of this was known to 32 innocent Nigerians who had spent two years walking from the west coast of Africa, across deserts and through jungles, to get to Port Sudan. There last month they bought passage from a Yemeni ship captain named Hamed Ghalib, and boarded his sambuk...
...Sharks. Ten miles out of Port Sudan, a high wind drove Ghalib's craft with a splintering roar on to a submerged coral reef called Tarfaniya. Twenty-two pilgrims arid two sailors scrambled on to a 14-foot lattice tower made of railroad tracks, erected on the reef as a warning to shipping. Captain Ghalib, two of his sailors and ten of the Nigerians could not make it, and were swept away. The survivors saw the waters around the reef churn and turn red as sharks pulled them down...