We
were bound with cords by the arms (at back) and legs. My master
was more cruelly tied than we two servants. We were taken to the
Raja,[44] who accused me of having brought my master into the
country. I was then stretched out and two strong men with whips
inflicted two hundred stripes on me. I was questioned as to the
maps. My master called out that he, not I, alone understood them,
and asked that I should not be beaten. Thereupon a Lama struck
him across the head and removed him to a distance, so that I
could not communicate with him. They took all our property. Then
we were kept separate for the night. I was put in a room and my
hands tied to a pole. I could not sleep with the pain I was in.
Next day my master, with his hands tied behind his back, was put
on a spiked saddle and tied by a long rope held by a horseman. He
went at a gallop surrounded by about fifty horsemen armed with
guns and swords. Man Sing, our coolie, was also taken with him.
My guards informed me my master was to be decapitated at Galshio,
and that I was to be beheaded where I was. On the fourth or fifth
day my master returned. Meanwhile I was a close prisoner, bound
up without food. When I saw my master he was in a pitiful state.
He was handcuffed with enormous cuffs, clothes torn to rags,
bleeding from his waist, feet and hands swollen. Next day a guard
on horseback took us back, bound as we were, on yaks' backs,
towards Mansarowar. There I had my cords unloosed. My master was
kept bound until we got to Tangchim. We were eventually taken to
Taklakot, where the Rev. Harkua Wilson met us and saw our
condition. He attended to our wants. My master was well-nigh at
death's door. The Tibetans returned some of my master's property,
but they have kept about 475 rupees in cash, two rifles,
revolver, two files, a lot of soap, medicine, a butterfly dodger,
matches, a box of mathematical instruments, a quantity (400)
cartridges, a large box of photographic plates and negatives,
three bags. We did not molest any one, and paid more than four
times the value for any food we bought.

Read over to witness.

J. LARKIN.

DEPOSITION OF MAN SING, _taken on the 9th day of October 1897.

Solemn affirmation administered by Pandit Krishnanand._

My name is M