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Memoeandum. 



1. Adolphe Schlagintweit crossed the Para Lasa (Pass) from 

 Garzha {via Lahaul) of Kalla into Rapslin of Ladak, i. e. from 

 India to Tibet, on the 31st of May, 1857, taking with him 



1. Mahomud Amin, native of Yarkuud, guide, &e. 



2. Tahudi ditto, Assistant to No. 1. 



3. Mahomud Hasan, of Peshawar, Moonshee, &c. 



4. Abdul of Kashmir, domestic servant, &c. 



5. Grhos Mahomud, of Moradabad, ditto. 



6. Murli, of Bhagsu, Chuprassy, &c. 



7. Moula Baksh, of Moradabad ditto, and others. 



2. The first of these, Mahomud Amin, was a person of ques- 

 tionable antecedents, nominally a merchant trading between Tarkund 

 and Le, but said also to have acted in the capacity of a gang-robber 

 on the road between those places. Being at Le in 1856, he was 

 arrested by the Dogra Thannadar Basti Ram, for debt, on the suit 

 of sundry merchants or for other reasons, and released on the appli- 

 cation of Herman and Robert Schlagintweit, who engaged him to 

 act as guide for their journey towards Khotin in the summer of that 

 year (their account of which is on record). On their return to 

 India in the autumn, he was discharged and remained at Le, when 

 he soon got into trouble again with the Dogra Government. 



3. Some say that Ageuts of the Chinese Government in 

 Yarkuud having heard of his bringing European travellers across 

 their frontier (which is high treason in their Code), offered a re- 

 ward of 1,000 Rupees for his apprehension, and perhaps coerced 

 some of the Kashmir residents at Yarkuud to work upon their 

 friends in Ladak and Kashmir for the same object, which Gulab 

 Singh and Basti Ram possibly also turned to a mercantile transac- 

 tion. However this may be, Gulab Singh having ordered his arrest 

 aud threatened to hang him soon after the Schlagintweits 5 depar- 

 ture, he fled from Ladak into Kulla, where Adolphe Schlagintweit 

 found him at Sultanpore in April 1857. There had possibly been 

 some previous arrangement between them. Any way Adolphe 

 Schlagintweit again entertained him as Interpreter, Guide, and 

 Baggage Master for another journey into Turkistan. As a speci- 

 men of his veracity, it may be mentioned that he informed deponent 



