Not just a bad navigator, but utterly stupid. If they had proceeded in a southerly direction after reaching the place where Eilat is today, they would have had the oil.
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                                        Reminds me of an episode of Star Trek:TNG, in which they make use of the holodeck in order to make a group of primitive people believe they're on a journey by foot, but they're being taken to another planet.
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 bingst
                                                
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                                        He probably couldn’t read the hieroglyphs on his map of the Middle East that he’d picked up at the local pharomart.
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