In Popular Culture
In the Tintin adventure Cigars of the Pharaoh, the hero and his dog are cast adrift in sarcophagi in the Red Sea. They are then picked up by a passing sailing ship captained by a man who turns out to be an arms smuggler. The captain was based on de Monfreid.
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