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hen) that before they left A. S. the Munshi Mohammad Hassan 

 had deserted, taking with him one of his master's '(or Mohammad 

 Amm's) poneys, some little money, and other articles belonging to 

 A. S. The Chaprassi's were directed to overtake him if they could, 

 recover the property and make it over to Harkishen in Kulu : 

 which they succeeded in doing, but leaving the Munshi himself in 

 Ladak, whence he probably made his way to Kashmir and Peshaur. 

 He gave them a letter for his master, which they brought to Har- 

 kishen, and is still extant among his papers, written in pencil in 

 broken English, excusing his sudden departure on the score of in- 

 ability to endure the hardship of such a journey any longer, and 

 admitting a balance of 72 lis., of which he gave the Chaprassi's 

 his accounts but did not pay the money. 



It must be observed that A. S. makes no allusion to all this in 

 his letter to Harkishen ; from which it may perhaps be inferred 

 that he did not attach much importance to the Munshi' s desertion. 



Harkishen when at Dera in November 1857 gathered from Capt. 

 Montgomery of the trigonometrical survey and his Native doctor, 

 that they had been in Ladak during the past summer, and that A. 

 S. had left Leh* before their arrival there, and that they knew 

 nothing more of him. 



From the locality of his last dispatch, Changchenmo (which 

 may be seen in my map at the N. E. end of Ladak), I infer that 

 he crossed the Turkish water shed to the east of the Karakorum 

 Pass, properly speaking perhaps to Suget, thence following ap- 

 pro ximatively the route taken by his brothers the year before, 

 towards Kilian and Khotan. 



It appears that he had laid in a stock of merchandize in India, 

 with the view of facilitating his journey by trade or the appear- 

 ance of it. 



[We also had with us instead of money, chiefly merchandize, 

 rich Indian cloth, silks, etc.] 



2. Statement made hy Bhutias from Johar Almora, August 1858. 

 From the Bhutias of Johar who got their information from Kash- 



* Adolphe had not been in Leh during this journey. 



