I don't take those things, but Ram Lal says you had better have some, as you might get fever." So I did.

Then we started, leaving everything in the tent, of which we pegged down the flap.

There were no natives about, the dooly-bearers having retired to the other side of the valley, and the jackals would find nothing to attract them, as we had thrown the remainder of our meal over the edge.

As for weapons, I had a good revolver and a thick stick; Isaacs had a revolver and a vicious-looking Turkish knife; and Ram Lal had nothing at all, as far as I could see, except a long light staff.
The effect of the moonlight was wild in the extreme, as we descended the side of the mountain by paths which were very far from smooth or easy.
Every now and then, as we neared the valley, we turned the corner of some ridge and got a fair view of the plain.

Then a step farther, and we were in the dark again, behind boulders and picking our way over loose stones, or struggling with the wretched foothold afforded by a surface of light gravel, inclined to the horizontal at an angle of forty-five degrees.