There are a few oases that are large enough to support small communities.

A hundred years ago much of this stretch of the Alföld resembled a vast bog relieved by a few oases of higher ground.

Apart from these few oases, it was a dreary monotonous waste of rock and sand, where neither beast or man could find food or shelter.

But, Aristomachus, would you then avoid the few Oases in the desert, because you must afterwards return to its sands and drought?