this image connects to alchemist bacause santiago travels in the carabian through the desert since he started his trip. and in the carabian he is traveling with the english to get to the pyamid. the caravan would very lucky to reach the oasis.
the animals were exhausted, and the men talked among themselves less and less. the camel driver, though, seemed not to be very concerned with the threat of war.
the silence was the worst aspect of the night when the mere groan of a camel which before had been nothing but the groan of a camel now frightened everyone, because it might signal a raid.