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being a necessary part of his equipment, I declined them 

 with thanks. He said, were he but at home, he would 

 have offered me something really worth having. He is 

 the lumbadar of his place, only some four days' journey, 

 whence he says he can supply my party with any supplies 

 required. This is well. 



I retired to my tent, and was writing up journal, when 

 Subhan appeared, and to my enquiry as to his wants, he 

 said, "The saheb's servant, of whom we were talking last 

 night, is here." Thinking that I must have misunderstood 

 him, I repeated his words interrogatively, " Here, in 

 camp ? " " Yes ; and awaiting an interview." I was 

 amazed at this extraordinary coincidence with my wishes 

 and designs, as were all my followers who had been made 

 aware of my intention to proceed in search of this very 

 man. A feeling of awe seemed to hold them all in silent 

 expectation, from which they were released by exclaiming 

 at my wonderful ' kizmet.' I now took my chair outside, 

 a circle of anxious attendants sitting round ; when the 

 cause of all this excitement appeared on the scene a 

 stout burly man, with a round red face and grizzled 

 beard, wearing a red cloth skull-cap, fringed with black 

 curly wool. He was agitated at the meeting, and enquired 

 if I was a countryman of his late master's. He spoke 

 no Hindostani, only Persian and Toorki ; so the inter- 

 pretation necessary was tedious Moosa first interpreting 

 into Cashmiri, then one of the Cashmiries into indifferent 

 Hindostani, which Abdoolah helped me to understand. 

 The gist of the narrative was as follows. 



This man, a native of Bokhara, was travelling from 

 Delhi to Yarkand with merchandise, being a regular 

 trader, when in Kulu he fell in with M. Schlagentweit 

 who entered into some agreement with him, by which 

 they became apparently connected in some speculation 



