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vering there observations, drawings and collections, and he also 

 gave him the rather large amount mentioned above for enabling 

 him to get these objects down to Kangra. 



Till now we have not heard anything about Gosht Mohammad ; 

 but we have written immediately to Kangra and to Muradabad 

 (his native place) requesting, that the most careful inquiries after 

 him might be made.] 



We passed through Kargalik and Bozgan and arrived at the 

 camp of Dil Khan Sayad of Kokand who had come with an armed 

 multitude to make a religious war with Yarkand. His camp lay 

 outside the city, and about an hour after our arrival, the army of 

 the Khatais* which formed the garrison of the city came out to 

 encounter the besiegers on the open field and routed them, and 

 obliged Dil Khan to fly. Mr. Schlagintweit likewise leaving all 

 his baggage there, fled with his followers to Negsar, and thence 

 went to Kashgar. Here another Sayad of Kokand named Vali 

 Khan who had likewise come on a religious expedition had suc- 

 ceeded in getting the throne of Kashgar ; Mr. Schlagintweit de- 

 sired an interview with him, but it was refused and a guard was 

 sent to apprehend us. 



They accordingly carried us prisoners into the presence of Vali 

 Khan, who ordered Mr. Schlagintweit to be beheaded, and so the 

 order was instantly carried out. Vali Khan did not ask any ques- 

 tion of Mr. Schlagintweit before his murder, and he was executed 

 outside the city of Kashgar. He was allowed no burial, but a 

 man, named 'Atta Bae, a native of Yarkand, had collected his 

 bones, and Mohammad Amin assured me, that he would send 

 them over to India via Ladak. This tragedy occurred about 17 

 months ago [August 1857]. 



Vali Khan then sent me, and Mohammad Amin of Yarkand, 

 and Murad a Jew, and a native of Tibet to prison ; and afterwards 

 sold me as a slave to a man called Tiizak for 25 Rupees by reason 

 of my being a native of India. 



A month after an army of Khatais came and expelled Sayad 

 Vali Khan of Kokand together with the inhabitants of Kashgar, 



* Khatai is the name given to the Chinese in Turkistan. 



