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Officers of the Punjab and regularly forwarded us the results of his 

 inquiries. 



c. Lord Elphinstone, Lord "William Hay, Major Ramsay, Hon'ble 

 W. Elliot, L. Bowring, Esq., W. Russel, Esq., the particularly 

 well informed special correspondent of the " Times," and some other 

 gentlemen, equally obliged us, when occasion presented itself, with 

 their advice and information in addition to that which we owed to 

 the Indian Press. In England especially Col. Sykes, M. P., and 

 Sir Roderick Murchison communicated to us any letters they 

 had rec ved ; in Germany it was chiefly our celebrated and most 

 kind friend, Baron Humboldt, who assisted us in making our in- 

 quiries. 



From an examination of these papers there is but too much rea- 

 son to fear that Adolphe Schlagintweit has lost his life in Central 

 Asia, probably in Kashgar after having left Yarkand. 



Captain Strachey's last memoir, Almora, January 1858, says: 

 " After the siege of Yarkand was raised, Adolphe Schlagintweit 

 " had joined the camp of the Turks and accompanied them as far 

 " as Kashgar. As they were carrying off with them a lot of their 

 " prisoners to be sold for slaves, some of the Bissahirs being 

 " among the number, Adolphe Schlagintweit remonstrated that 

 " they were British subjects and should be released. On this 

 " arose a dispute. The Turks accused Adolphe Schlagintweit of 

 " taking part with their enemies and ended by killing him." 



A quite recent letter December 31st, 1858, (January 11th, 1859,) 

 from Mr. Vardouguine, Russian Officiating Consul at Tchougout- 

 chak in the Russian part of Central Asia, seems also to confirm his 

 death. We received this letter through the energetic exertions of 

 Prince Gortschakoff, and it was delivered to us by Baron Budberg, 

 the Russian Minister at Berlin. This letter had taken an admir- 

 ably short time to reach us, being the answer to a request of No- 

 vember 8th, 1858. In this letter he is said to have been killed by 

 order of Bouzrook Khan from Kokand who had besieged Kashgar 

 and invaded Turkistan. 



We feel most deeply obliged for all these numerous proofs of 

 general sympathy in Europe and India, and we allow ourselves to 



