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clothing for my fat friend the lumbadar of Eish Mackahm ; 

 then took a warm farewell of Bella Shah. Yesterday 

 evening, when Murad returned from the thanadar, that 

 functionary sent with him a man denounced by Murad 

 as having in his possession property to the value of 

 1008 rupees of M. Schlagentweit's. The man admitted 

 to having been entrusted with goods to that amount by 

 M. Schlagentweit who had sent him on arrival at Khylian 

 to a neighbouring village to dispose of them. He followed 

 M. Schlagentweit on to Yarkand, thinking to find him 

 there, and was himself made prisoner. The goods, he 

 said, were safe in the hands of other parties in Yarkand. 

 Mahomed Dahomey had sent a sepahu to him from the 

 Andejan country to give up this property, but he had 

 refused to comply without due authority. The thanadar 

 sent me word that, if the man did not give up the goods 

 at my bidding, he would send him to Lahore to be dealt 

 with. I sent directions to the thanadar to act himself in 

 the matter, and take such steps as he deemed best to 

 procure the property, and transmit it to British authority. 

 He sent to me this morning to write him an order so to 

 act. I have, therefore, given him an official authority, 

 as a British officer, in the absence of other legitimate 

 authority, to search for, and possess himself of, all or any 

 effects or papers of the deceased, and duly apprise the 

 Punjab government when he may succeed. This seemed 

 to me the rational course to take. 



26th September. Every one astir ere dawn amid a 

 scene of bustle and confusion. The shikarries and even 

 all my servants, Abdoolah told me, had resolved to 

 indulge themselves with tattoos. Not the remotest 

 objection on my part, as I would only pay for Abdoolah's 

 and the moonshi's. I tipped jemadar, gopal, and the old 

 bunga who was anxious that I should not forget his name, 



