Matchlocks were primed, cartridges rammed home, and swords loosened in their sheaths. Was it the Tuaregs again across our path? But Mohammed, the keen-eyed, shouted joyfully— “The oasis, the oasis! I see the palm-trees.”
this would be the answer because of the way that they are over joyed when they find the Oasis.
Maybe a dark alley or the woods maybe even an old house.
A large car fire presents the possibility of many things for example, forest fires and explosions ext.