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that he reached Yarkand ; found that country harried by crescen- 

 taders from Kokand ; and passed on to Kashgar, where the same 

 fanatical raids were going on, and the leader of one of them, a 

 Sayad named Vali Khan, seized Mr. Schlagintweit and barbarous- 

 ly caused him to be beheaded, without any other offence apparent- 

 ly than that of being a foreigner. 



If anything could soothe the distress of Mr. Schlagintweit' s 

 friends in Europe, it would surely be the noble contrast between 

 the enlightened purpose and humane search for knowledge, which 

 bore him into those wilds with his life in his open hand, and the 

 barbarians frenzy for the propagation of error by the blood of his 

 fellow-men. 



I have sent by separate parcel a slip of paper, and a broken 

 pocket telescope, which were the only relics Abdullah could bring 

 away with him. 



[We have received these objects. — The handwriting on the slip 

 of paper is sure to be that of our brother ; but it is beyond all 

 doubt that it had been written not during his travels in Turkistan ; 

 it is dated "Peshaur" and is probably written in December 1856. 

 It seems to be a thrown away label, probably on account of being 

 indistinctly written, belonging to an object of his ethnographical 

 collections. 



The telescope which 'Abdul says to have been bought from one 

 of the people, who robbed our brother's property was certainly not 

 his; it looks as if it had been purchased in a native bazar of Pesh- 

 aur, and it is of so rude external appearance, that our brother 

 cannot even have taken it with him as an object of present for na- 

 tives ; it only magnifies \\ times and gives very badly denned 

 images. 



We have communicated to Colonel Edwardes our well founded 

 doubts that these objects should have been amongst our brother's 

 property in Turkistan and we have requested him again to cross- 

 examine Abdullah, and to keep at the same time in mind the im- 

 probability of his statements, at least in reference to these objects,] 



9. Verbal statement given by the Kashmiri Abdullah an attend- 

 ant on Mr. Adolphe Schlagintiveit. 



