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towards Khotan in the summer of that year (the account of which 

 is on record). [Vide the Report No. VIII of the Officers engaged 

 in the Magnetic Survey of India, Agra, Secundra Orphan Press 

 1857.] On their return to India in the autumn he.was discharged 

 and remained at Leh, where he soon got into trouble again with 

 the Dogra Government. 



Some say that the Agents of the Chinese Government in Yar- 

 kand having heard of his bringing European travellers across their 

 frontier (which is high treason in their Code) offered a reward of 

 1000 Rupees for his apprehension, and perhaps coerced some of 

 the Kashmiri residents at Yarkand to work upon their friends in 

 Ladak and Kashmir for the same object, which Gulab Singh and 

 Basti Ram possibly also turned to a mercantile transaction. 



However this may be Gulab Singh having ordered his arrest and 

 threatened to hang him soon after the Schlagintweit's (H. and R,) 

 departure, he fled from Ladak into Kulu, where Adolphe S. found 

 him, at Sultanpur, in April 1857. 



There had possibly been some previous arrangement between 

 them: Any way A. S. again entertained him as interpreter, guide, 

 and baggage master for another journey into Turkistan. 



As a specimen of his veracity, it may be mentioned that he inform- 

 ed Harkishen that he was to have a monthly salary of 2,000 Rupees 

 whilst travelling with A. S., and a monthly pension of 1,000 Rupees 

 after he had brought him back safe to India. Major Hay Assist. 

 Commiss. of Kulu probably knows more of Mohammad Amin's 

 history. 



[Mohammad Amm, an aged Turkistani, has rendered us during 

 our expedition to Turkistan most devoted and important services. 

 His manner of treating the Natives, and the cordial reception he 

 met with everywhere, plainly showed that in his own country he 

 was very well known and esteemed and considered as an important 

 person. We essentially owe it to his clever behaviour with the 

 Natives that we made it possible to advance as far as we did. 



It may be, that he later named to Adolphe's establishment an 

 exaggerated sum for his pay, perhaps for appearing as a more im- 

 portant person. 



