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He will not suffer the followers of His prophet to be devoured of jackals and unclean beasts . Masallah ! There is no God but God . '' Therefore , when they had eaten some food , Ram Lal and Shere Ali departed , journeying north-east towards Thibet , and Isaacs and I remained sleeping in the tent until past noon . Then we arose and went our way , having packed up the little canvas house and the utensils and the pole into a neat bundle which we carried by turns along the steep rough paths , until we found the dooly-bearers squatting round the embers after their mid-day meal . As we journeyed we talked of the events of the night . It seemed to me that the whole thing might have been managed very much more simply .