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The Secretary read the following extract from a demi-official letter, 
dated 21st February, 1879, from Major H. C. B. Tanner to Major-Genl. 
Walker, Surveyor General of India. 
“ I told you in a former letter that I had found a new language. I am 
steadily going on with it for it is closely allied to the language of the Ka¬ 
firs. My interpreter Hassain Khan, a resident of Kunar, teaches me; it is 
his mother-tongue, and he has brought to my aid one of the Sirdars of Ku¬ 
nar, Mir Ahmed Khan of Shewa (or Kel as the Kunar people call it). 
The Mir is very intelligent and has influence among all the tribes to his 
north, and I am quite confident that I require only his help to get me a 
footing in Kafiristan. He often comes to see me, and takes the greatest 
interest in my study of his language. He makes me read over what I have 
written down, for he says that I must learn the pronunciation of the upper 
and not of the lower classes. 
