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or beginning of January, 1857, and returned to their own country 

 during the next three months, making a few observations by the 

 way. After this they had no further communication with him, 

 excepting by a message sent in March, 1S57, through Capt. H. 

 Strachey, 66th Ghoorka Regt., which requested Man Singh to 

 joiu Adolphe Schlagintweit again, either at Kangra in April, or 

 later in Ladak, which, however, Man Singh did not attempt. 



Going as usual to the Gar fair, in the summer of 1857, Man 

 Singh heard only some vague reports about Adolphe Schlagintweit 

 from traders of Ladak, the substance of which is given in the 9th 

 paragraph of memo. No. 1. 



In December, 1857, Man Singh received a packet of thermome- 

 ters, &c, with sundry notes from Hermann Schlagintweit, through 

 Mr. B. Colvin, Assistant Commissoner of Kumaon. These had 

 been sent from Calcutta in April of that year, but owing to the 

 disturbed state of affairs in Upper India soon after, and Man 

 Singh's absence in Bhotan, their delivery was delayed till his re- 

 turn to the lower hills at the end of the year. He made little or 

 no use of these instruments since, and ultimately returned them to 

 Captain Strachey. 



In September, 1858, Man Singh, being again at the Gar fair, 

 got some further information about Adolphe Schlagintweit, chiefly 

 from one Wurpur, a native of Sunam in Kumaon of Bischir, trad- 

 ing to Ladak and Tarkund. This person was himself at Yarkund 

 in 1857. When Adolphe Schlagintweit arrived in that quarter 

 the Turks of Khokund, were already at or near the city. Adolphe 

 Schlagintweit himself did not enter the town, but his guide, Ma- 

 homed Amin, did so, and left it again, either before or during the 

 siege, under what relations with his own master or with the Turks 

 was not known to informant. 



As the siege continued, and the Chinese were shut up in their 

 citadel, they obliged sundry of the inhabitants of the place to take 

 part in the fighting ; among others, a lot of foreign merchants, in- 

 cluding about forty-five (45) of the Bischris, of whom 15 only re- 

 turned, informant Nurpur being one of them ; the rest were either 

 killed or made prisoners. 



After the siege was raised, informant heard that Adolphe 



