Ibn Battuta heads back to the oasis and gifts the man who helped him, a pearl. He learns that he has contracted a deadly disease from mosquitoes he encountered on his way to the Badour Oasis. Unless he finds a flower that could cure him, he could die. He needs to take it to a doctor named Younes al Mesri in Sinai, so he heads off to the Hyena Valleys to find the flower.