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Selections. 



[No. 8, NEW SERIES. 



I. Captain Henry Strachey, 66th Gdrkhas, of Almdra (Hima- 

 laya) who, in consequence of his scientific journeys in the Hima- 

 layas, and in western Tibet, was in a position to select the persons 

 on whose reports the most reliance could be placed and who also 

 was particularly enabled, critically to elucidate these reports. 



II. G. Knox, Esq., Assistant Commissioner of Kulu (Hima- 

 laya) who in an unexpected manner found an opportunity of making 

 inquiries of the Yarkandi Kattah-Ali-Shah at Nagger, a place so 

 distant from Yarkand. 



III. M. Vardouguine, Russian Consul at Chuguchak (Central 

 Asia) whose report we have received through the kind offices of 

 Baron Budberg at Berlin. 



Notwithstanding the enormous distance, we have received these 

 reports in a remarkably short time, through the active sympathy 

 of Prince Gortschakoff. 



IV. Lieut. Col. Edwardes, c. b., in whom Adolphe already, 

 when at Peshaur, had found a warm friend, and who, making use 

 of his important political position, has recently with the greatest 

 energy and kindness made every exertion to obtain the latest defi- 

 nite information relative to our ill-fated brother. 



In addition to the above, we had repeatedly received general 

 accounts on Adolphe, with expressions of the most cordial sympa- 

 thy, through the Indian Press, and private communications from 

 the following gentlemen : 



The Rev. H. Jaschke, Missionary at Lahol (Himalaya). 

 A. C. Gumpert, Esq., Consul for Hamburg and Oldenburg at 

 Bombay, and F. Schiller, Esq., Austrian Consul at Calcutta. 



Lord Elphinstone, Lord W. Hay, Major Ramsay, the Hon. W. 

 Elliot, L. Bowring, Esq., Private Secretary to Lord Canning, W. 

 Russel, Esq., correspondent of the " Times" during the Indian 

 rebellion, and others. 



Notices in their letters which were not included in the Official 

 Reports, have been added either as notes, or in brackets, [], in 

 the text. Our own observations upon the individual Natives fur- 

 nishing the reports, as well as remarks upon several geographical 

 points, are also given in brackets. 



