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Selections. 



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The person through whose agency I obtained these details did 

 not know whether he was also accompanied by Mussalmans. All 

 the effects of this traveller are said to have been taken by Buzruk 

 Khan, on his return to Kokand. 



It is further reported that this traveller came from India intend- 

 ing to proceed through Tibet to Kokand, or, in the event of being 

 prevented from doing so, to return as he had come. His name is 

 unknown. All that I can learn respecting him is that he was very 

 tall [at least in comparison with the much smaller races of Central 

 Asia.] 



I obtained these statements on inquiring of the headman of a 

 large caravan from that place whether any Europeans had fallen 

 in the rebellion in Turkistan. 



Unfortunately the statements I received especially as to the 

 routes* agree but too well with the points to which my attention 

 was directed as being essential ones in reference to the person into 

 whose identity I was commissioned by the Asiatic Department in 

 November (No. 4160) to make investigations. 



7. Second Report from Mr. Vardouguine forwarded to Baron 

 Budherg by Mr. George KowalewsM, St. Peter sburgh 2nd ( 14th ) 

 March 1859. 



The Prince Gortschakoff has already communicated in his des- 

 patch to your Excellency (Baron Budberg) of the 10th (22nd) of 

 February, some information which Mr. Vardouguine, acting as our 

 Consul at Chuguchak had forwarded to him, and which appear to 

 have some bearing on the fate of Mr. Schlagintweit. According 

 to a fresh report, dated 24th J anuary (25th February,) from the 

 same official, it would appear that this ill-fated traveller had not 

 four, but only three companions who did not share his fate but 

 saved themselves. Mr. Vardouguine brings forward a circum- 

 stance which, however indefinite it may seem, may still not be with- 

 out weight for those who personally knew Mr. Schlagintweit, in es- 

 tablishing his identity. The traveller who is said to have been 



* Our letters, in consequence of which Prince Gortschakoff had the 

 kindness to institute inquiries, contained indications about the details of 

 our brother's possible routes to Turkistan, and also about those which he 

 might have adopted to reach the Russian territories. 



