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• Happy at that yearly signal were the Mission brothers engaged in digging and watering a big mudhole from which the birds would draw material to repair their hard-baked, saucer .
• But in the barren, hard-baked south, between a range of sawtooth mountains and the clearwater, coral-reefed Gulf of Aqaba, the government retained ownership of the land.
• A girl wades in Victoria's Laanecoorie Reservoir after brief showers covered the hard-baked mud with water.