Michel Vieuchange disguised as Berber woman
The journey he had made in a fervour of anticipation he re-traced
in agony,
but mind and will were constantly awake in his unconquerable body, a body ravaged by dysentery and shaken by
the galling
pace of a beast itself almost dead. To the last moment, compass, watch, and pencil noted the bearings of each
detail and
deviation as the wilderness was crossed: with a clear, steeled glance he dominated the strange beings around
him.
— Paul Claudel, Preface,
Smara, the Forbidden City (E.P. Dutton, 1932)
