Ainia's D'ni Journal - All Things Uru

Saturday 05 Jan ‘08I spent time earlier today researching onlinethe possible locations of the cleft in New Mexicoand re-reading The Book of Atrus, particularlythe parts that spoke of the desert caravans.I’ve believed for several years now that thecamels described in the caravan must be asimple mis-translation. I can only assumethat the translator knew the original D’ni wordmeant “beast of burden” and then assumed thatin the Terran desert it must mean a camel. Itmust have been later after the actual cleft andcaldera were discovered here in New Mexico thatthe error was recognized. So the caravan wouldhave consisted of burros rather than camels.The reported location in Eddy county is odd,though. Certainly not a mis-translation. Yet Isee no yucca, no mesquite, no cholla at the cleft.—9—