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well, he might eventually be put at the head of a second party, and a 
third apprentice might be trained and explorations made in various 
other directions as required. After Turkistan, I should recommend 
exploration to the eastward of the Paukong Lake District, a third in 
the Lassa direction and so on, but in each case I should recommend 
that explorers be accompanied by some reliable man* who has been 
in the habit of visiting the countries in question. For instance I 
should think if an expedition is ever sent to Kokan, the Moola 
Abdul Majeed, who took the Governor-General’s letter last year, 
might be able to take care of the explorers. ‘ 
The exploration of all the country from Peshawar vid Kabul and 
the Sirikol Lake to Kokan would have been a capital commencement, 
as for more than half the distance we could have tested the explorers’ 
work by Lieutenant Wood’s route to Sirikol. 
With a small number of trained explorers available, the Asiatic 
Society would be justified in asking the Government of India to 
allow them always to send one or more native explorers with such 
expeditions as the last to Kokan whenever it was considered safe and 
expedient to do so. 
Recommending the subject to the consideration of the Council of 
the Society, 
I have, &c., 
(Sd.) T. G. Monrcomeniz, Capt. Engrs. 
1st Asst. G. T. Survey of India, in 
charge, Kashmir Series. 
Major Walker expressed a strong opinion in favour of the plan 
suggested, and entered into various details as to the best mode of pro- 
ceeding in case the scheme met the approval of Government, as well 
as to the time necessary for training natives for such duties. He re- 
marked that the positions of certain places not far from our northern 
frontier, were uncertain to a very considerable amount of longitude, 
and that it would be easy to check the large differences now existing 
in the values of some places of note, as recorded by different autho- 
rities, if Captain Montgomerie’s plan was carried out, and the native 
explorers were trained and instructed and their observations and 
routes checked properly, as he would take care they should be. 
* Mahomed Amin who accompained Herr Adolphe Schlagintweit and his 
brothers, would be an excellent man for ail parts of Turkistan. He knows the 
country thoroughly and moves through it at his pleasure, 
