CONSIGNED TO A WATERY GRAVE

摘要

Flat, barren, windy, treeless and devoid of drinking water, the peninsula of Cape Blanc in Mauritania doesn't exactly welcome visitors. Even the Moorish nomads who inhabited the region preferred to pitch their tens elsewhere. The peninsula, however, features a vast bay that's well protected from the rollers of the Atlantic-the larget shelter for ships between Tangiers and Dakar.