But on a trek to the Bedunge Swamp with 12 armed rangers, your correspondent found a parched and desolate landscape of fear.

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Every couple of months they pull their heads out of their monitors, stick a finger out the window and survey the desolate landscape below.

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Be entirely alone in a desolate landscape in another country.

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