1843.] of the Vanjab and Affghanistan. 597 



Leaving Lakkee, I proceeded seven kos to Latamar ; a dependency 

 Latamar. of Chotara, over a bad road, without water. The headman 

 is Daraz Khan. 



From Latamar I proceeded seven kos to Karak, over hills and 

 Karak. through defiles ; drinking water is procured from a spring, 

 which turns brackish at three or four paces from where it leaves 

 the ground. The headmen are Sangee Khan, Danial, and Darab 

 Khan. This place is pleasantly situated in a valley. On arriving, 

 I put up as usual at the mosque, when two men, father and son, pre- 

 sented themselves, and requested my aid in the following matter: — 



The son had sold a cow for 20 rupees and given the 

 Complaint of Theft. . 



money to his mother, who said it was lost, ana he 



wanted to know, whether his mother, sister, or wife, was the thief. 

 I enquired if any one else had been in the house. He replied in the 

 negative. I enquired of the mother, where she had laid the money? 

 Conjuring. She replied underneath the clothes. I then proceeded to ar- 

 range my conjuring apparatus of the bowl of discolored water and steel 

 spring ; and writing the names of the five members of the family each on 

 a separate slip of paper, confined each slip to a copper pice, by a layer 

 of dough, and placed one of the pice on the spring. This in due course 

 of time, by the process before described, was forcibly ejected from the 

 bowl. Taking it up, and stripping off the dough, I proceeded to read 

 the name. Then wisely shaking my head, I said, " Now I know the 

 thief, who shall be exposed, if the money is not restored before 



Theft discovered, morning." At midnight, I was gently awoke by the 

 complainant's wife, who confessed to the abstraction of the money, and 

 promised to do any thing, if I would not expose her ; at the same time 

 she counted into my hands the missing 20 rupees. In the morning, 

 when the husband came to see me, I presented him with the rupees ; 

 saying, I had the greatest trouble in recovering them from the genii 

 who had taken them away. Some of them were pressed on my accept- 

 ance, but I refused them, in order to sustain my character; but the 

 good people would not be content, until they had cooked and packed 

 up two fowls for my journey, on which I was accompanied for two 

 stages by the grateful owner of the rupees. 



From Karak I proceeded five kos to Meetakhel, over salt hills. 



Meetakhel. The headman is Alladad Khan. 



