aqalmand--

the  three  horses  were  dead  tired , the  horsemen were  equally  exhausted,  for  over  a  month  they  had been riding  with the  bags  hung  on their  horses  moving   through  hills  , mountains, remote  villages  and  now  they  had  reached  at  dusk  the  deserted  settlement, cottages  made  of  mud, the  roofs  were  thatched and  the  desert  seemed  sunbaked