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the Tibetan, southern side of the Karakorum] in some places, the 

 whole of the tract was an entire wilderness. Mr. Schlagintweit, 

 however, did not proceed from this single house situated at 3 days 

 marches from 'Elchi, to the direction of this city, but turned to- 

 wards Suget where he stayed 3 days. Mohammad Amin here 

 again urged upon Mr. Schlagintweit not to proceed to Yarkand, 

 but to Sirikul, and thence on to Kokand. Mr. Schlagintweit con- 

 sequently set out for Sirikul. 



On the 3rd day he came up to the summit of a Pass where the 

 night we arrived snow fell to a great extent ; the horses that he 

 had brought with him were all taken away by the servants of Mo- 

 hammad Amin, but we next morning went in pursuit of the rob- 

 bers, and Mohammad Amin with one of his servants who was a 

 Jew also accompanied us. [This must have been Murad.] 



We at last recovered 7 horses from the thieves, and sent Mo- 

 hammad Amin and his servant ahead to search for the rest. Mo- 

 hammad Amin had not instigated his men to rob our Sahib of his 

 horses, but they of their own accord had done the deed. On our 

 return we asked Mr. Schlagintweit to retire down the Pass in 

 order to be safe from the severity of the cold, and to get provi- 

 sions. He accordingly descended from the Pass and reached 

 Shumla Khoja, where Mohammad Amin also came up with the 

 3 remaining horses, which had been stolen, and dispatched his 

 servant by name Murad, the Jew, to Yarkand, to bring information 

 of the wars that were then going on there. The Jew returned 

 and reported that it was the Khan of Kokand who had been mak- 

 ing war. We therefore without hesitation set out for Yarkand, 

 and sent Gosht Mohammad Khansamah under the care of a Cara- 

 van back to Kangra, with a present of a horse valued at 200 Ru- 

 pees, besides 200 Rupees in cash, and an order for 300 Rupees on 

 Kangra. 



[Also Mohammad Amin mentions nearly quite the same about 

 Gosht Mohammad being dispatched to India and about the sums 

 he received in cash and in a draft on Kangra. 



Fully aware of the danger of his positions, Adolphe most pro- 

 bably had sent him to Kangra for taking charge of and for deli- 



