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4fch. If I can elicit any thing more from Kuttub AH Shah, 1 will 

 report upon it. We may hope to have both Omerdeer's man and 

 the messenger sent by Haree Chund back before the passes are 

 closed. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 



E. Taylor, 

 Deputy Commissioner. 



Statement of Kxjtttjb Alee Shah Yarlcundee, taken hefore Mr. 

 Knox, 28th September, 1858. 



Last year in the mouth of Sawun (July) viz. 14 months ago, the 

 Indijans came to Yarkund to fight with the Kuttses and Chinese, 

 and I went to Kurghulluck, two days' journey on this side. The Indi- 

 jans took me and all the Punjabees, Cabulees, Cashmerees and Hin- 

 doostanees, in all some 40 or 50 persons, prisoners. At that time 

 two Indijans and a Majanee were accompanying a Sahib who was 

 coming from the Ladak side ; these three men ran away with the 

 Sahib's property and came to Kurghullock, there they stopped 

 in the house of one Kurbun Khujjuck and they said to him, We have 

 some property for sale, do you take it. When he had sent for the 

 property and examined it, he found it to consist of 12 or 14 Thans 

 Keenkhab, and some loongees, and some Daryayee, and some other 

 property also, but I did not see it with my own eyes. Kurbun having 

 seen the things, went and reported the fact to Hajee Nussur, Kar- 

 dar of the Indijans, saying that these men were poor and had nothing 

 of their own, they must have robbed this from somebody. Hajee 

 Nussur sent for them aud intimidated them, questioning them 

 as to where they got the property, and whose it was. They at first 

 asserted that the property was their own, but wheu threatened 

 severely they stated that Mahomed Ameen had brought a Eering- 

 hee with him, and this property belonged to that Feringhee, 

 and we have taken it and are escaping with it. Hajee Nussur asked- 

 where the Feringhee was, they replied *' God knows ! He was on 

 his way to Yarkund, if he has gone there he will have arrived at 

 the village of Gullean." Hajee Nussur therefore sent two or three 

 of his own men and told them to go and fetch the Sahib ; they 

 therefore went to Gullean aud brought the Sahib from thence to Kur- 



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