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I iiave made a fair zoological collection, and will have at the end of my journey, certainly 
materials for two volumes. The geological and palaeontological part will he somewhat 
meagre, but this cannot be helped when full half the ground was under snow at the time 
of my journey. 
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I will not he able to do anything for the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; I shall have enough 
oi m y °wn work to prepare for my leave next year. I am afraid I will not he able to go 
home before the end of May next. 
"lam delighted to hear of such a lot of good work being turned out by the Survey. The 
chief (Dr. T. Oldham) will, I hope, have returned by next winter, and also Waagen. 
^ou ask about Bulram (Stoliczka’s bearer). Of course he is with me, and grey, and 
looking as old as myself. I can hardly recognise myself ; but few know what I suffered in 
order only to do some work. 
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“ Please tell Waterhouse to order for the Asiatic Severtzov’s “ TurkestansTcie Jevotnie ” 
immediately, if it is not at the Indian Museum. If they do not like ordering it, order it 
for myself through Trubner without delay. Do not forget, please. Stege’s death great 
loss to me.* 
“ Ever sincerely yours, 
“ Eerd. Stoeiczka.” 
In a letter to Mr. A. B. Wynne, written on the same day, he refers to the impracticability 
of an y trade in Salt Range salt to Turkistan being established, as salt is already cheap there, 
the price being one pice for a pound of small cubic crystals, and seven annas for a donkey 
load of common efflorescent salt fit for animals. 
the 16th the Karakorum was ascended, and the elevation caused Stoliczka to feel 
pains in the back of his head, but this is not referred to in the diary. 
On the 17th of June the party reached Bursi, and Stoliczka’s record of the day’s work was 
follows : 
A long march of about 24 miles. Eirst we crossed for several miles the Dipsang plain, 
av liielx is utter barren waste, with solitary, low, clumsy hills, probably still belonging to the 
haglang series. Then we ascended towards the watershed of the high plain, crossing 
several streams flowing eastward, but which, further on, no doubt, turn round and join 
the Shaiok, which flows from the Kundan Glaciers. 
In ascending to the watershed the low, worn-down hills to the west were thickly strewn 
with round pieces of whitish or reddish compact limestone, intermingled with boulders, 
harge and small, of fine grained syenitic gneiss. This must be somewhere in situ, near the 
head of the watershed. Further on there were many greenstone boulders coming down 
from the west, and this rock must also be somewhere up there in situ. At last we 
‘ descended into a narrow gorge, the sides of which for fully a mile consisted of limestone 
conglomerate, the boulders, of white, grey, or black limestone, being well rounded and worn, 
and cemented together with a bright red stiff clay ; upon this followed rather indifferently 
* This gentleman was the captain of a ship, with whom Stoliczka had shared in a mercantile speculation. In a letter 
to A - B. Wynne, dated 30th May, he mentioned his financial loss ; but as he had no one to provide for, he expressed 
a mere passing regret that his money was gone, and implied that he would have been satisfied if he only received the 
zoologi ca i collections which Captain Stege was to have made for him. 
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