102 Correspondence of the Commissioners [Fes. 



From Assistant Surgeon Thomas Thomson, Commissioner, Tibetan 



Frontier, 

 To Capt. A. Cunningham, Senior Commissioner. 



Bated Camp Iskardo, 1st December, 1847. 

 Sir, — I have the honor to forward for your information a diary of 

 my route from the 20th of October, and a rough sketch of survey of 

 Shayuk and Indus rivers from Nubra to this place, which however 

 having been reduced in a very rude manner, can by no means be con- 

 sidered as representing accurately the course of the river. 



2. I have been detained at Iskardo much longer than I wished, 

 being in uncertainty regarding my future movements. My intention 

 had been after a few days' halt to proceed towards Gilgit — but from all 

 the information I can collect here regarding that country, it does not 

 seem to me to be in a state fit for scientific investigation. Mr. Agnew, 

 having proceeded to Cashmere shortly before my arrival here, I have 

 not of course any very authentic information on the subject, but on the 

 whole I have judged it best to proceed to Cashmere, for which place I 

 propose to start to-morrow morning. 



I have the honor to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your most obedient Servant, 

 (Signed) Thomas Thomson, 



Commissioner, Tibetan Frontier. 

 Camp Iskardo, 1st December, 1847. 



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

 To John Lawrence, Esq. Resident, Lahore. 



Dated Camp Hosan Abdal, \0th January, 1848. 

 Sir, — I have the honor to report to you, that I reached Hosan Ab- 

 dal this day, after two visits to the Yusufzai country in search of Aor- 

 nus, which I believe that I have discovered beyond all reasonable doubt, 

 in the vast hill-fortress of Rani-gat or Rani-garh, situated immediately 

 above the small village of Nogram, about 16 miles north by west from 

 Ohind, and somewhat less in a direct line from the nearest point on the 

 western bank of the Indus. Rani-gat is, I suspect, only a corruption 

 of Rani-garhj the former name being a Pashtu term for the " Rani's- 



