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arrived at Le, they found Basti Ram's son in authority there, the 

 Thannadar himself being away in Kashmir. The son is said to 

 have refused the required assistance : more likely, in fact, he was too 

 silly and timid to act upon his own responsibility, and referred for 

 instructions to his father or Gulab Sigh, in Kashmir, at the ex- 

 pense of great delay and danger to A. Schlagintweit. The informa- 

 tion gathered by the Iwaris at Gar goes no further, and is not very 

 reliable even so far : indeed it is a question whether this story may 

 not be an exaggerted mis-statement of the desertion of Mahomud 

 Hasan in Ladak. 



10. The next accounts are derived from two or three letters 

 which have been published during the last i'ew months in the Delhi 

 Gazette, from a correspondent of that paper, apparently at Simla, 

 and deriving his information from merchant travellers from Ladak. 

 From these it may be gathered that Adolphe Schlagiutweit passed 

 the winter of 1857-58 at the foot of the mountains on the border of 

 Khoteu, on this side of the Chinese out-post, among the same tribe 

 of shepherds perhaps who gave his brothers a friendly reception the 

 year before. On his arrival there, the Provinces of Kashgar and 

 Yarkund were in a very disturbed state from one of those invasions 

 of the Turks from Khokund which have been recurring periodically 

 every 10 or 20 years, during the past century. 



11. On these occasions the forage invaders being joined hy the 

 Turks of the country, usually succeed in driving the Chinese Gar- 

 risons into their forts, and subverting the Celestial Government 

 for a time, till re-inforcements come from the Chinese Provinces 

 further east, when the rabble of Turks soon become disorganized, 

 the Khokandis retire to their own country, and the people of 

 Yarkund and Kashgar are left to settle their own accounts with the 

 Chinese, which is sometimes done by wholesale massacres of the 

 Turks of those cities. The invaders are commonly headed by one 

 of the Khojahs of Andejan, of the family which ruled at Kashghar, 

 before the Chinese conquest (about 100 years ago), and who still 

 aspire to the recovery of their former dominions. An unsuccessful 

 invasion and rebellion of the Turks, as here described, occurred 

 when I was in Ladak in 1817-48 ; on the present occasion the result 

 is said to have been the same. 



