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We have further to acknowledge the important assistance we 

 have received in collecting information respecting our deceased 

 brother from Lord Stanley, Col. Sykes, and Sir Roderick Murchi- 

 son, in England, and from our venerable and most kind friend 

 Baron Humboldt. 



I. Reports collected and Communicated. By Capt. Henkt Stba- 



CHEY. 



1. Verbal Statement of the Native Doctor Harkishen*, Almora 

 August 1858. 



Adolphe Schlagintweit crossed the Bara-Lacha Pass from Darche 

 in Lahol into Rupchu of Ladak, i. e. from India to Tibet on the 

 31st of May 1857 taking with him : 



1. Mohammad Amin, Native of Yarkand, chief Guide,f 



2. Yahudi, Guide to No. 1, 



3. Mohammad Kassan, of Peshaur, Munshi, 



4. Abdul, of Kashmir, \ 



5. Ghost Mohammad, of MuradaHd, j Domestio Servants etc - 



6. Murli, of Bhagsu in Kangra, \ 



7. Maula Baksh, of Muradabad, > Chaprassi's, 



and others. / 



The 1st of these, Mohammed Amin, was a person of questiona- 

 ble antecedents, nominally a merchant, trading between Yarkand 

 and Leh but said also to have acted in the capacity of a gang-rob- 

 ber on the road between those places. 



Being at Leh, in 1 856 he was arrested by the Bogra Thanadar 

 Basti Ram for debt in the suit of sundry merchants, or for other 

 reasons, and released on the application of Heimann and Robert 

 Schlagintweit, who engaged him to act as guide for their journey 



* Dr. Harkishen, a Brahman now employed at the hospital at Almo- 

 ra, is a Native Doctor ; he was, alternating with others, attached to our 

 establishments during 2 years, travelling now with the one, then with 

 the other of us three. He also was very useful to us as observer on 

 stations for corresponding observations. 



f Remarks on the the transcription of Indian names : 

 Vowels and diphthongs as in Italian and German. " over a and e 

 (a and e) denote an imperfectly formed a and e as the English u in but, 

 and e before r in herd. Diphthongs are meant to sound like the 2 

 component vowels combined. Consonants generally as in English ; 

 but h after a consonant, also after t is an aspiration except in sh which 

 has its usual sound. — The ' marks the syllable to be accented. 



