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=**(BOOK XIV) Odysseus's journey from Algeria to Morocco**= Algeria is in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Morocco and Tunisia. It is nearly four times the size of Texas, bordered on the west by Morocco and Western Sahara and on the east by Tunisia and Libya. Algeria’s climate in the winter is arid, dry, and cold, while the summer is really hot and dry. It is mostly mountains, high plateau and deserts that are narrow. Also the mountains are discontinuous costal plains. In the summer heat Odysseus tries to find the signs of life but he lacks the supplies to begin his journey. He hiked for hours until he discovered a cold and dark cave. Odysseus entered the cave and looked around and went in the direction of the dim light. He went in further and saw a squirrel that was caught in a cage. The squirrel was a captive by the man-eating hyena. The man was blind and old so he had some creatures that helped him. Then suddenly a short-legged purple ostrich came out and a mutated vampire bunny did too. They both tied Odysseus in a cage and kept him as another captive. Odysseus tried to escape from the cave, however there was no way out. The cave had different passage ways to various places of the world. Odysseus was thinking of a plan to get out of the cave without getting captured or getting hurt. So he just followed the creatures into the cage but without anyone noticing he had his pet monkey in his backpack. He let out the monkey from his backpack to go look for someone to help him. The monkey soon came back with bananas, string and a pocket knife. Odysseus then broke out of the cage and tied the banana onto the string for the monkey to chase it and also be a distraction. Finally Odysseus manages to get out of the cave into a tropical forest. Odysseus then finds himself standing next to a sand cat and a leopard preying on him when he woke up. He had another escape plan to get out of the forest. He let out a bird call out to the toucans and they grabbed onto him a flew to Morocco. Appearing in Morocco he didn’t have anywhere to stay and nowhere to go. So he just stayed at a hotel in Morocco until he found out he had a family living in Morocco. He then found out where his family was living and stayed with them. Although he couldn't stay with his family forever so he went to a market town. From there he would see what he needed on for his journey. He saw that people all the way from Australia was selling and buying gods from different people from all over the country. He apparently didn't know that he was in Morocco but when someone spoke to him in a different language he knew. For now Odysseus was just staying in Morocco for now until he was recovered and full of energy for him to keep moving on his journey. He thought that he was cured and later that day Odysseus finally continues on with his journey out of Morocco. When he walked a couple of steps he suddenly just plopped down onto the ground. He had some kind of illness called the Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS). It was an illness that involved unpleasant sensations in the legs and the involuntary urges to move them. There was no cure to help it heal but there was only one thing that the treatment was aimed at reducing stress and helping the muscles relax. Warm baths, gentle stretching exercises, massage or similar techniques. Suddenly some creepy and odd looking people from the Bobo tribe started to walk towards Odysseus and instead of killing him they helped him. For 5 months he was with the Bobo people, but later he was cured and was half way out of Morocco, but then he was wrong and before he knew it they were people from a forest a little away from the town.