172 FATE OF ADOLPHE SCHLAGINTWEIT. [April 11, 1859. 



his fate. By tlio return of one of Ms attendants (Abdullah) to 

 Peshawr, vid Bokhara and Cabul, as well as by a letter of another 

 of them, Mahomed Amir, addressed to Colonel Edwardes, it appears 

 that Adolphe Schlagintweit was well received at Yarkand, though 

 he encountered great difficulties in reaching that city. On moving 

 to the north-west, or towards Kokan, he fell in with a horde of 

 fanatic Mussulmans, at Kashgar (which lies in about 41° N. lat. 

 and 72i° E. long.), and in front of the walls of which place he was 

 beheaded by orders of a ferocious Synd named WuUi Khan. After 

 giving a sketch of the details, the President observed that, as great 

 interest has been taken by all the British authorities in Upper India 

 in the fate of this enterprising explorer — probably the only scientific 

 European who has ever visited this wild and remote region since 

 the days of Marco Polo— so it is hoped that some of his note-books 

 and observations may eventually be recovered from the natives. 



The Papers read were : — 



1. Captain H. Strachey (Gold Medallist) on the Death of M. Adolphe 



Schlagintweit, 



Communicated by the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, m.p., f.r.g.s., Secretary for 



India. 



Extrojct of a Military Letter from India, dated 2Qth January^ 1859. 



In continuation of our separate letter, dated 22nd Dec, 1858, we 

 have the honour to submit a farther communication received from 

 the Foreign Department regarding the fate of the late Adolphe Schla- 

 gintweit, who, it now appears, was barbarously murdered at Kash- 

 gar by a fanatic Synd, named WuUi Khan. 



From Lieutenant-Colmel H. B. Edwardes, c.b., Commissioner and Super- 

 intendent at Peshawr Division, to E. Temple, jKsg., Secretary to the 

 Chief Commissioner of the Punjab Political Department. 



Sir, — I am not aware whether the Chief Commissioner has yet 

 received a reliable account of the circumstances attending the death 

 of M. Adolphe Schlagintweit ; but at any rate it will be satisfactory 

 to Government and to his friends to be able to compare the enclosed 

 narratives of the sad event. No. 1 is the verbal statement of a 

 Cashmir follower of M. Schlagintweit, named Abdullah, who 

 arrived here vid Bokhara and Cabiil three days ago. No. 2 is 

 the written report of a native of Ladak, named Mahomed Amir, 

 who appears to have been provided by Lord William Hay as a kind 

 of courier to M. Schlagintweit. He writes from Kokan, and Ab- 



