a special grant. This money will be expended by
the Joint Commissioners, who will employ free labour at market rates for
this purpose. The officers in Ladakh and in British territory shall be
instructed to use their best endeavours to supply labourers on the
indent of the Commissioners at market rates. No tolls shall be levied on
the bridges on this line of road.

14. As a temporary arrangement, and until the line of road has been
demarcated, or till the end of this year, the Joint Commissioners shall
exercise the powers described in these rules over the several roads
taken by the traders through Ladakh from Lahoul and Spiti.

(Signed) MAHARAJA RUNBEER SINGH.

" T. D. FORSYTH.

(These rules were agreed upon in 1872, between the Indian Government and
Cashmere, for the purpose of promoting trade with Eastern Turkestan and
Central Asia, which had been sanctioned by the Treaty of Commerce of
1870.)

A STORY FROM KASHGAR.

Mirza Mulla Rahmat, of Kashgar, who arrived at Peshawur lately, on his
way to Mecca, has told what he knows about events in Kashgar. The
following is his story:--In the month of Jamadi-us-sani 1294 (June-July,
1877), that Mahomed Yakoob Khan, the Badshah of Kashgar, collected a
large army to fight the Chinese. He died near the town of Balisan (?
Bai), and his army then recognized Hakim Khan Torah as his successor.
The mullahs in Kashgar in the meantime appointed Beg Kuli Beg, Yakoob's
eldest son, as their Badshah, according to Yakoob's will. Hakim Khan and
the army which joined him then came to Aksu, where Beg Kuli Beg also
arrived, meaning to capture the place and the person of the usurper. A
battle was fought between Kuli Beg and Hakim Khan on the 26th and 27th
of Rajah (27th and 28th July, 1877), and Hakim Khan was defeated. Many
of the soldiers belonging to Hakim Khan's force fell in the battle, and
many others were starved, and some were drowned crossing a river. Hakim
Khan then went into Russian territory with 1,000 chosen soldiers. Beg
Kuli Beg now seized several towns and returned to Kashgar. In the
meantime Naiz Hakim Beg, the Governor of Khoten, rebelled, and Kuli Beg
met him in the field, and captured Khoten. The Beg was scarcely a week
at that place when he heard that the Chinese had arrived at Aksu and had
taken it. An officer (Kho Dalay?) of the Chinese army who had turned
Mahomedan (but subsequently recanted) attacked Yangy Shahr, the
capital, and, captur