:32:00
...and then rest as best
we can during the day.
:32:03
We leave at sundown this evening.
Sergeant Watson, would you come here?
:32:08
I'll take Sergeant Watson and anybody
else who wants to come with me.
:32:12
Volunteers, give me your names...
:32:14
...and we'll start making
the preparations.
:32:17
Captain Harris?
:32:20
You wanted to know our position.
:32:22
If you'd like to come over here,
I'll show you.
:32:27
Now, gentlemen, we're in
the middle of this circle...
:32:31
...which runs through
the three water points.
:32:34
That's Marada in the north, Tazerbo
in the east and Namous in the south.
:32:39
Marada is 106.
:32:41
Say, London to Birmingham.
:32:45
Marada's not a city,
it's a flea-bitten waterhole...
:32:48
....with some borax quarries,
an oil well and a few lousy palm trees.
:32:53
Well, that's our objective then, Marada.
:32:56
Say, captain...
:33:01
...you done much marching
in desert terrain?
:33:03
- On exercises and that sort of thing.
- How far?
:33:06
Ten or 15 miles.
Full equipment, of course.
:33:09
- Plenty of water, I suppose?
- Sufficient.
:33:13
Look, I don't know what your practical
navigation's like, mine's not bad.
:33:18
But I wouldn't march
10 paces from here.
:33:22
In the daytime,
it's hitting 120 in the shade...
:33:26
....and out there, there is no shade.
:33:31
If you could take as much
as four pints a day with you...
:33:34
- ...you'd still be sweating 10.
- We intend marching by night.
:33:39
Fine, well, precisely in what direction?
:33:43
- There are compasses, you know.
That's fine.
:33:46
That's just fine.
Someday I'll have you tell me...
:33:49
...what your compass was reading as
you passed the Jebel Haroudj Mountains.
:33:53
They're mostly magnetic rock...
:33:55
...and that sort of makes nonsense
out of the compass.
:33:59
- One can navigate by the stars.
- If you marched 106 miles by the stars...