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the Andishanis* came to Yarkand to fight with the Chinese, and 

 I went to Kargalik, two days' journey south of Yarkand. The 

 Andishanis took me and all the Panjabis, Kabulis, Kashmiris and 

 Hindostanis, in all some 40 or 50 persons, prisoners ; at that time 

 two Andishanis and a Munshi were accompanying a Sahib who was 

 coming from the Ladak side ; these three men ran away with the 

 Sahib's property and came to Kargalik ; there they stopped in the 

 house of one Kurban and they said to him, we have some property 

 for sale, do you take it ? When we had sent for the property and 

 examined it, he found it to consist of 12 or 14 yards of valuable 

 embroidered cloth, a number of ordinary cloth and some other 

 property also, but I did not see it with my own eyes. Kurban 

 having seen the things, went and reported the fact to Haji Misser, 

 Kardar of the Andishanis, saying that these men were poor and 

 had nothing of their own, and that they must have robbed this 

 from somebody. Haji Mfsser sent for them and intimidated them, 

 questioning as to where they got the property and whose it was. 



They at first asserted the property was their own, but when 

 threatened severely, they stated that Mohammad Amm had brought 

 a (Fermghi), f and that they had stolen these articles and were es- 

 caping with them. Haji Misser asked where the Fermghi was ? 

 they replied : " God knows, he was on his way to Yarkand ; if he 

 has gone there he will have arrived at the village of Ki'lian." Haji 

 Misser therefore sent 2 or 3 of his own men, and told them to go 

 and fetch the Sahib, they therefore went to Kilian and brought the 

 Sahib from thence to Kargalik, and Mohammad Amm was also 

 with them. 



[It may be surprising that it was not Mohammad Amm they 

 should have selected as interpreter at the following interview. But 

 we only could speak ourselves through interpreters with Moham- 

 mad Amm ; he knows besides his Native language, the Turkish, 

 only a little of the Tibetan and rather more of the Persian lan- 

 guage, but no Hindostani whatever. Our Interpreter, whilst tra- 

 velling with him in Turkistan, was Makshiit, a Native of India, 



* Andishan is a large town, situated east of Kokand, 

 f Fermghi is in India and Central Asia the general designation of an 

 European, the word being a modification of Franc. 



