“All the way out here. Must have come off a freighter or something. I don’t see how the wind could blow it that far, although let me tell you, I’ve been at some really remote sites before—this one time, we were in Syria, excavating ruins that hadn’t been seen or touched by humans in hundreds of years and we found a buried canteen. US Air Force issue; must have come from a bomber based in the Middle East during World War Two, or else somebody bought it surplus. A shepherd, maybe.”