As our watch was stolen, our first problem was to establish a guess at where it came from. We had looked at maps and other papers, pictures and such, that we found in the boat and were left with two choices. Cairo or Alexandria. Well, at least they were not that far apart. In any case, it looked like the two Arabs had been at home on the Nile.
Lets hope they kept their timepiece set for local time.
Thinking back, it, the Nile, would work out just about right. When we were back on the coast of North Africa dawn had arrived at the right time for a watch set for a few hundred miles to the east because at that time we would have been almost due south of Malta. Somewhere in Libya. Come noon time a check with the sextant should give us a crude check. With proper charts I could get us within a few miles.