He looked around for his bag of shells and found it a few meters away. He pulled the bag onto some dry sand, then sat down next to it.

他四处寻找那个装满贝壳的袋子，在几米外找到了。他把袋子拉到干沙子上，然后坐到袋子旁边。

At first, people were buried in the dry desert sand, but the graves were dug up by wild animals and people who wanted to steal the things they were buried with.

起初，尸体被埋在干燥的沙漠里，但是坟墓被野生动物和想偷陪葬物的人挖了出来。

Before he knew what had happened, he dropped down and down. The water was covering his head. He rose to the top of the water struggling to get back on to the dry sand.

他还没搞清楚发生了什么事，就一次次地摔倒，水盖住了他的头。他爬到水面上，挣扎着回到干沙上。

Some ranchers with an instinct for water, like that of the miner for metal, sank wells into the dry sand and were rewarded with gushers that " soused the thirsty desert and turned its good-for-nothing sand into good-for-anything loam."

一些对水有本能的牧场主， 就像金属矿工对水的本能一样，在干涸的沙地上打井， 并得到井喷作为奖励， 这些井“浸湿了干涸的沙漠， 把一无是处的沙子变成了万能的肥土。