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I only require to be with the Kajfila to be protected. This is a fine 
city: the scene is entirely new. I am forced to make an abrupt con- 
clusion to be ready for the Chop (post). * * * 
10th October, I have been at the prince Royal’s camp, about 90 
miles from this. Lieut. Burnes there left me for Astrabad and the 
Caspian. We found Captain Shee, Mr. Brouski and Mr. Beck in camp, 
all living in the Persian style: they were very kind to us. Captain 
Shee and I went to the Turquoise mines, and since my return to this 
I have not been very well. Every body hereisalso sick. My journey 
to Herat is all fixed. I saw Yar Mohammed Khan, Prince Kamran’s 
minister, who received me extremely civilly, but I am cautious in put- 
ting myself under any obligations.” 
V.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 
Wednesday Evening, 27th March, 1833. 
The Honorable Sir Edward Ryan in the Chair. 
The Proceedings of the last meeting were read. 
Lieut. A. Burnes, Assistant Resident at Cutch, was elected a Member, 
C. Telfair, Esq. President, and Mons. J. Desjardins, Secretary, of the 
Natural History Society of Mauritius, were on the favorable report of the 
Committee of Papers, elected Honorary Members. 
Read letters from Captain Henderson and Mr. F. J. Halliday, expressing 
their reluctance in being obliged to withdraw from the Society. 
Read a letter from J. C. Morris, Esq. Secretary to the Madras Literary 
Society, &c. requesting that copies might be made for the use of Cavelly 
Venkata Lachmia pundit, formerly in the employ of Colonel Colin Macken. 
zie, of the English Catalogue of the late Colonel’s collection of inscriptions. 
Ordered that such information as can be given, regarding the Transla- 
tions of Colonel Mackenzie’s collection of inscriptions, be forwarded in reply 
to the Mad. Lit. Soc. 
The Secretary announced that materials were collected for another vo- 
lume of Researches, and that it was for the Society to determine whether it 
should continue to publish in the same form as heretofore. 
The Native Secretary submitted a memorandum on the subject, of which 
the following is the substance :— 
The first five volumes were printed by the Calcutta Gazette Press on its own 
account, and copies supplied to Members at 20 Rs. each, after which the Society 
took the responsibility of publication. Until 1810 a charge was made for the 
volume; thenceforward Subscribing Members received their copies gratis. 
The sale of the Researches either in India or in Europe has been very limited. 
The cost of printing, gradually reduced from Rs. 10,000 to Rs, 4500 per volume, has 
