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ed ; and the Khan of Kokand has deputed a man named 'Aka 

 Sikal to Kashgar to bring about the state of affairs on the old 

 footing. I shall therefore shortly leave for Kashgar, and. having 

 taken the remains of Mr. Schlagintweit, shall proceed to Peshaur. 



Dated Berlin, 15th March 1859. 



Sir, 



Lord Stanley, the Secretary of State for Indian in Council, has 

 been kindly pleased to send us for our information a most carefully 

 compiled collection of official papers and memoranda, which the 

 Government of India as well as several Civil and Military Officers 

 have been good enough to collect in the hope of elucidating the 

 fate of our brother Adolphe Schlagintweit, in charge of the Mag- 

 netic Survey of India since 1854. 



The papers contain : 



1. A large and most elaborate Memorandum, which Captain 

 Henry Strachey, 66th Gorkhas, has given himself the great trouble 

 to compile partly from evidences of several Natives partly from 

 notes contained in the Indian Newspapers. This memorandum is 

 accompanied by another most valuable communication, the result 

 of Captain Strachey' s indefatigable personal inquiries. 



2. Letters from the Dewan of Kashmir to the Chief Commis- 

 sioner of the Punjab. 



3. Several evidences taken by Major Lake and Messrs. Knox 

 and Taylor, the Civil Officers of the Kangra District. 



Besides these official letters the following gentlemen obliged us 

 by private communications : 



a. Rev. H. Jaschke, Missionary at Kyelong in Lahoul with 

 whom, before starting for Ladak, Adolphe had the pleasure of stay- 

 ing some weeks. The Rev gentleman also was kind enough to 

 take charge of part of his luggage and of such spare instruments 

 as Adolphe did not think advisable to take with him on his 

 journey to the North. 



b. A. C. Gumpert, Esq., Consul of Hamburg and Odenburg at 

 Bombay who had kindly put himself in communication with several 



