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THE FIRST EDITION.
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traversing the Himalaya regions ; and possessed an
ardent desire for travel. I was also attended by a
native Surveyor, Mahommed AH, a public servant,
who had been educated in the Engineer Institution
of Bombay, under Captain G. Jervis, of the En-
gineers ; and who had entitled himself to my utmost
confidence by faithful and devoted conduct on
many trying occasions during the voyage to Eahore.*
I also took a Hindoo lad, of Cashmere family, named
Mohun Lai, who had been educated at the English
Institution at Delhi, as he would assist me in my
Persian correspondence, the forms of which amount
to a science in the East. His youth and his creed
would, I believed, free me from all danger of his
entering into intrigues with the people; and both
he and the Surveyor proved themselves to be zealous
and trustworthy men, devoted to our interests.
Being natives, they could detach themselves from
us; and, by reducing our retinue, preserve our
character as poor people, which I ever considered
* I have now to deplore, with the sincerest sorrow, the
death of this worthy man. His fate was indeed cruel: he
passed safely through the deserts and dangers of Tartary,
and now moulders at Vellore, where he died of cholera, while
accompanying me to Calcutta. A generous Government have
not forgotten his merits : his widow has been liberally pen-
sioned ; his family has been provided for ; and his sons, on their
attaining a certain age, will be admitted into the public service.
This well-timed bounty has not passed unnoticed by the Indian
community. I observe it mentioned in a Bengal newspaper,
edited by a native, who calls upon his countrymen on that side
of India to emulate such a career, and see that they are not
left behind those at Bombay in mental advancement.
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traversing the Himalaya regions ; and possessed an
ardent desire for travel. I was also attended by a
native Surveyor, Mahommed AH, a public servant,
who had been educated in the Engineer Institution
of Bombay, under Captain G. Jervis, of the En-
gineers ; and who had entitled himself to my utmost
confidence by faithful and devoted conduct on
many trying occasions during the voyage to Eahore.*
I also took a Hindoo lad, of Cashmere family, named
Mohun Lai, who had been educated at the English
Institution at Delhi, as he would assist me in my
Persian correspondence, the forms of which amount
to a science in the East. His youth and his creed
would, I believed, free me from all danger of his
entering into intrigues with the people; and both
he and the Surveyor proved themselves to be zealous
and trustworthy men, devoted to our interests.
Being natives, they could detach themselves from
us; and, by reducing our retinue, preserve our
character as poor people, which I ever considered
* I have now to deplore, with the sincerest sorrow, the
death of this worthy man. His fate was indeed cruel: he
passed safely through the deserts and dangers of Tartary,
and now moulders at Vellore, where he died of cholera, while
accompanying me to Calcutta. A generous Government have
not forgotten his merits : his widow has been liberally pen-
sioned ; his family has been provided for ; and his sons, on their
attaining a certain age, will be admitted into the public service.
This well-timed bounty has not passed unnoticed by the Indian
community. I observe it mentioned in a Bengal newspaper,
edited by a native, who calls upon his countrymen on that side
of India to emulate such a career, and see that they are not
left behind those at Bombay in mental advancement.