"Sweating in the heat, we had lost the whole day, dreading to be buried alive in the drifting sand." & <span>"Sand in the scanty food, sand in the brackish water—water that was drunk lukewarm from a clammy, loathsome water-skin."</span>
Context??? Please then maybe I can asker your question
<span>false cause
When a speaker or writer tries to connect two things that don't directly have an effect on each other as having an effect on each other, it is false cause. Saying that one thing directly causes another when there is no proof or factual evidence to back that up weakens an argument significantly. </span>