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gbulluck and Mahomed Ameen was also with him. Nobody under- 

 stood the Sahib's speech in that country, they searched therefore 

 for somebody who could understand him, in hope of finding some 

 one who could understand Hindoostanee or Punjabee. I was in 

 confinement and they took me to the place. Hajee Nussur told me 

 to ask the Sahib why be had come there. I asked the Sahib. He 

 replied that there was a Shahzada, son of Mihmood Shah, living in 

 the Indijan country, and he had visited him (Mr. Scblagintweit) in 

 Lahore, and had said, Do you come to Indijan, and I will establish 

 friendly relations between the Nawab of Indijan and the Sahibs ; 

 that it was on this account that he was on his way to Indijan. 

 Hajee Nassur confiscated all the Sahib's property, and put the 

 Sahib in confinement and sent him to Tullah Khan, a principal 

 Sirdar. When they put the Sahib in confinement, he said to me, 

 " No one here understands my language and my belief is that these 

 " people will kill me, should you go to that side of the country, if 

 " you go by Koolloo, tell this matter to Hay Sahib ; if you go by 

 " Cashmere tell it to whatever Sahib you meet." After this the 

 Sahib went away. On the day that the Sahib went to Sirdar Tulla 

 Khan, on the same day, the Chinese force came to fight with the 

 Indijans, and the Indijans fought for half an hour and then ran away, 

 and took the Sahib with them ; when the Chinese force came, all 

 the Indijan Kardars ran away, and we, forty or fifty men, who 

 were in confinement, got free. I afterwards heard that Dil Khan 

 the great Chief of the Indijans had taken the Sahib's property, and 

 put him to death, but I only heard this from the report of travellers 

 of Kashgur and Tarkund. I did not see it with my own eyes. Ques- 

 tion. — Do you know anything of the property of the Sahib or his 

 servants? Answer.— No — I do not know anything about them. I 

 only saw the Sahib and Mahomed Ameen Moghul; some also said 

 that Mahomed Ameen also had been killed ; others that he was 

 alive ; others that he had his nose and ears cut off. 



(Signed) Kuttab Allee Shah YarJcundee. 



Nuggur, 2%th September, 1858. 



(Extract.) 



A man has come to-day and gives some intelligence about Mr. 

 Scblagintweit, he says he saw him when the Indijans were taking 



