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9th. Therm. 67. Our friend the Jemadar not having yet arrived, 

 though we heard from his son, who joined us the preceding evening, 

 that he was still employed in efforts to bnng up our baggage ; we packed 

 up as many of the most necessary articles as our private servants could 

 convey, and proceeded on our march, leaving a second division of our 

 baggage, under charge of the two Gurc'hdlt Sipdhis, who continued to 

 exert their prohibitory authority. We took up our quarters under a small 

 tree, opposite to Bdnj-haghar, a village situated on the bank of a river 

 called Chupela,* and elevated about four hundred feet above the stream. 



This evening the Jemadar arrived, bringing the whole of O'ur baggage, 

 and accompanied by the Gurc'hdlt Sipdhis, who had obstructed, as far as 

 in them lay, his friendly exertions to serve us. 



Our friend the Jemaddr, with a countenance expressive of his mind^ 

 confirmed the unwelcome tidings of his own recal. In delivering up 

 the property, the tear started in his eye, while he expressed his sorrow 

 and regret, for the circumstances that had occurred ; but said he, " I 

 " am like you, a soldier, the servant of a government, and bound to obey 

 ** the instructions of my masters, without inquiring into the motives of 

 ** their conduct. My orders to return are positive ; and although they 

 " are not conveyed in the form I might have expected, to refuse com- 

 " plianee would subject me to disgrace and punishment. I consider it 

 " peculiarly unfortunate, that such events should have occurred, on the 

 " eve of your departure ; as I had every wish and hope to conduct you, 

 " with comfort and satisfaction, to the end of thejourtiey; but as the 

 *• case now stands, I must, however unwilling, bid you adieu." We 

 gave full credit to his words ; for he was a plain open man, and his coua- 



* Is it this which gives nam€ to the straight of Copek in the old maps .' 



