And, eventually, Inaka sold his cheese. Then Inaka returned to where he had camped for more than a week. Inaka greets a friend at the market. Inaka had come to this spot with his wife and three children nearly two weeks earlier. Within walking distance stood three other tents, belonging to two of Inaka's brothers and a family friend.
Nomads often travel together, then set up tents several hundred yards from each other.
In desperate times, they share grain and care for each other's animals. Dozens of Inaka's animals roamed near his tent. He has no camels. Goats supply milk and cheese. Sheep skin provides, among other things, warm coverings for the sometimes-chill desert nights.