JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



FEBRUARY, 1848. 



Correspondence of the Commissioners deputed to the Tibetan Frontier ; 

 communicated by H. M.Elliot, Esq., Secretary to the Government 

 of India, Foreign Department, 



From Capt. A. Cunningham, Senior Commissioner, Tibetan Frontier, 

 To Lieut. -Col. H. M. Lawrence, C. B. Resident, Lahore. 



Dated Camp Haule, 1 5th Sept. 1847. 



Sir, — I have the honor to report to you that Dr. Thomson and 

 myself arrived at this place yesterday, Lieut. Strachey having left us 

 on the morning of the 12th to proceed by a somewhat more circuitous 

 route, by following the course of the Parang River for a few days, in- 

 stead of proceeding direct to Haule. 



2. On our arrival here, we found two persons, named Angchoo and 

 Gyabo, who had been sent to meet us by the Garpan of Garee, on the 

 receipt of our letter to his address, despatched from Khyure (copy of 

 which was forwarded to you with my last letter No. 2 of the 29th ul- 

 timo). These persons reported that they had been sent to meet us by 

 the Garpan, who had directed them to return to Garee with any orders 

 that we might give them, — or, in the event of our not giving them any 

 orders, to return at once. On being questioned regarding the Sirdars 

 who were reported to have arrived from Lassa, they stated that one 

 Sirdar, named Khalun Shakchoo, had arrived for the purpose of set- 

 tling some revenue matters ; that when they left Garee he was pre- 

 paring to return to Lassa, and that by this time he must have set out 



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