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had joined the Camp of the Turks and accompanied them as far as 

 Kashgar. As they were carrying off with them a lot of their pri- 

 soners to be sold for slaves, some of the Bissahirs being among the 

 number, Adolphe Schlagintweit remonstrated that they were British 

 subjects aud should be released. On this arose a dispute. The 

 Turks accused Adolphe Schlagintweit of taking part with their 

 enemies and ended by killing him." 



A quite recent letter from December 31st, 1858, to January 11th, 

 1859, from Mr. Vardouguine, Eussian Officiating Consul at Tchou- 

 goutchak in the Eussian part of Central Asia, seems also to confirm 

 his death. We received this letter through the energetic exertions 

 of Prince Gortschakoff and it was delivered to us by Baron Bud- 

 berg, the Eussian Minister at Berlin. This letter had taken an 

 admirably short time to reach us, being the answer to a request of 

 November 8th, 1858. In this letter he is said to have been killed 

 by order of Bouzrook Khan from Kokand who had besieged Kashgar 

 and invaded Turkistan. 



We feel most deeply obliged for all these numerous proofs of 

 general sympathy in Europe and India, and we allow ourselves to 

 draw the attention of our friends in India to the fact, that even 

 now it will not be quite impossible to save at least through their 

 zeal a great part of his journals, observations, instruments and col- 

 lections, which are the more valuable on account of the countries 

 in which they were made. 



Capt. Henry Strachey states, that according to information he 

 received, several boxes with collections, drawings, books and some 

 instruments are in Dehra in the Surveyor General's Office ; the 

 Missionaries of Lahoul have informed us that similar objects are 

 still left in their charge ; we do not think it improbable that even 

 those, which Adolphe Schlagintweit carried with him, during his 

 travels in Turkistan, might be recovered by a plan we have the 

 honor to propose. 



We are perfectly aware, that these objects cannot be got without 

 Government's usual energetic assistance, and without the sanc- 

 tioning the comparatively small expenses necessary for this purpose. 

 In consequence of the following extract of a letter addressed to us 

 by the India House as early as July, 1858, we consider it our duty 

 again officially to request the kind assistance of Government. 



