oct.— mae. 1858-59.] Selections. 309 



Whilst he was with us, all our money transactions, sometimes 

 to a pretty great amount passed through his hands, and we never 

 had the least cause to complain of him. 



No. 2. Name not known to Deponent (Harkishen) [We know 

 this man personally ; his name is Murad ; he is a native of Bok- 

 hara. We saw him first in Ladak, after our return from Turkis- 

 tan ; he at this time has given us much valuable information about 

 routes in Central Asia and we always have found him a very trust- 

 worthy, respectable native]. He was commonly called " Yahudi,"z. e. 

 " the Jew," was a native of Yarkandand dependent of Mohammad 

 Amin : they had some baggage ponies with them, and 4 Turkish 

 grooms or baggagemen, all of which were engaged by A. S. for the 

 journey. 



No. 3. Mohammad Hassan of Peshaur w r as engaged by A. S. 

 when he was at that place in December 1856 as aMunshi, assisting 

 also in scientific observations and accounts. 



The last documentary evidence of A. S.'s movements written by 

 himself is a letter to Harkishen dated from Changchenmo in La- 

 dak 14th June 1857, a postscript to the same, stating that it was 

 not sent till the 24th idem ; and one or two notes for sundry pay- 

 ments of money, of the latter date. The letter consists chiefly 

 of instructions to Harkishen, and of A. S. himself only says : "I 

 am quite well and at present all things seem to go on pretty right," 

 but as it also mentions two Dak parcels, one for Lt. Charles Hall, 

 (Assist. Commiss. of Bhagsu), sent by the same dispatch for trans- 

 mission to Kangra, other persons have no doubt received letters 

 from him and the particulars of his history, up to that time. 



[We have received none of the letters mentioned. Also the Rev. 

 H. Jaschke, Missionary at Lahol, who received about the same 

 time letters from our brother, copies of which he had the kindness 

 to send us, could not give us any other information about his later 

 movements.] 



These documents were brought from Ladak by the Chaprassis 

 Murli and Maula Baksh (No. 6 and 7 of the above list) who joined 

 Harkishen at Kardong in Lahol on the 20th of July 1857. 



It appeared from the statement of these men (made to Harkls- 

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