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which they brought to Hurkishen and is still extant among his papers, 

 written in pencil in broken English, excusing his sudden departure 

 on the score of iuability to endure the hardships of such a journey 

 any longer, and admitting a balance of 72 Rupees, of which he gave 

 the chuprassies his account, but did not pay the money. Tt must 

 be observed that A. Schlagintweit makes no allusion to all this in 

 his letters to Hurkishen ; from which it may perhaps be inferred 

 that he did not attach much importance to the Moonshee's de- 

 sertion. 



7. Hurkishen, when at Deyra in November, 1857, gathered from 

 Captain Montgomery of the Trigonometrical survey and his native 

 doctor, that they had been in Ladak during the past summer, and 

 that A. Schlagintweit had left Le before their arrival there, and they 

 knew nothing more of him. 



8. From the locality of his last despatch, Changchenmo, (which 

 may be seen in my map, at the N. E. end of Ladak) I infer that 

 he crossed the Turkish water shed to the east of the Karakorum 

 Pass, perhaps to Sugat, on the head of the Karakash River, 

 and thence following the route taken by his brothers the year before, 

 towards Kilian and Khoten.* It appears that he had laid in a 

 stock of merchandize in India, with the view of facilitating his 

 journey by trade or the appearance of it. 



9. I hear of him after this through the Bhotiyas of Iwar, who 

 got their information from Kashmiris of Ladak at the Gar fair in 

 the autumn of 1857. It was to the effect that A. Schlagintweit had 

 succeeded in reaching the margin of the inhabited country at the 

 foot of the mountains ; there he went out from his camp some way 

 to reconnoitre, and in his absence the Guide, Mahomud Amin, 

 absconded with most of the baggage and cattle towards Yarkund. 

 A. Schlagintweit being left helpless, sent back some of the Ladak 

 baggage-men he had brought with him with a letter or message to 

 the Thannadar of Le, requesting him to send assistance in men, 

 cattle, provisions, and money ; whether for the purpose of continu- 

 ing his attempt to penetrate into Turkistan, or merely to return to 

 Ladak with less hardships, does not appear. When his messengers 



* There is also a way through Kokrang and Dong Ailak, by which lie might 

 get into the ordinary route on this side of the Karakorum. 



