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least publicly so, in this country, though it would appear to have 

 been communicated to the friends of the deceased gentleman in Ger- 

 many so far back as April last ; his death having been sent to Europe 

 from Lahore, where it was known through official letters received 

 from Cashmere. ' Why,' asks our correspondent, * was this not made 

 known to the public generally ?' Our present information is very 

 scanty, but is to the effect that Mr. Schlagintweib was murdered by a 

 plundering party of Khokund people, who suspected that he was 

 connected with their enemies, the Chinese. None of Mr. Sehlasia- 

 tweit's instruments or papers have yet been discovered, though 

 people have been sent in search of them, and some have, it is suppos- 

 ed, been taken by servants by the Cashmere route. 



" Some short time ago, we announced that the enterprising and 

 scientific traveller, Herr Adolphe Schlagintweit, had been murdered, 

 and we now find confirmation of the fact in an extract from the letter 

 of the Simla Correspondent of the Evening Mail (Times) of the 17th 

 ultimo, as follows — 



" From the same source, positive, and, I fear, authentic information 

 has been received of the death of the adventurous explorer and natural- 

 ist, Adolphe Schlagintweit, one of the three brothers already so well 

 known for their scientific researches, pursued under the auspices of the 

 East India Company in India and among the Himalayas. Although 

 rumours of his death, someaccompanied by circumstantial details, have 

 been for some time circulated, they were not known to rest on any 

 good authority. It appears that a party of Khokuudhis belonging to a 

 tribe which was in revolt against the Chinese, came into the Yarkund 

 territory early in the spring, and drove the few Chinese troops in 

 the villages into the town of Yarkund. In one of the villages near 

 the town, the Khokuudhis found Schlagintweit residing, and in the 

 course of conversation he asked them why they did not attack 

 Yarkund itself, where the Chinese force was so small, and they 

 were so numerous. For some unexplained reason they were 

 offended at this question. They retired and held a consultation, the 

 result of which was that they decided he must be a friend of 

 the Chinese, and wished to eusnare them ; aud in the dead of night 

 they surrounded his house and killed him, to the great regret of 



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