Ibn Battuta bids Nawara farewell, before he goes however, her father gifts him an Astrolabe to aid in his journey. Ibn Battuta eventually meets a merchant and trades his horse for a camel and heads to the desert despite the warnings of a heat wave approaching. He becomes delirious as he is dehydrated and sees mirages, however ends up stumbling upon the Tabuk Oasis, where he finds a man that claims he will aid Ibn Battuta in reaching Mecca.