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lake last-named; but they merely skirted it, and then followed a canal or narrow sound, which conducted them to the Dungluk-köl, whence another narrow sound brought them to the Ku-tutghan-köl (Ku-tutu-köl), which demanded 53 minutes to ride across it. From the description which the expedition gives of the north-western portion of the Begelik-köl, it would appear to be even more complicated than I supposed it to be; but then I was not able to examine it, and for that reason it is shown in part with a dotted outline on Pl. 46 of vol. I. Towards the east it would also seem to send out fjord-like offshoots of the same character as the Avul Nias Bekne-kakmasi on its western side. Nevertheless I have not dared to incorporate the results of the expedition's labours on my map. A climb of 20 minutes from the eastern shore of the Ku-tutu over a dune-accumulation brought them to the lake of Ojman-köl, a lake entirely surrounded by sand and possessing but one or two solitary toghraks. This is not to be confounded with the other Ojman-köl through which the Tarim flows, although both lakes lie rather near together. The former is about 4 to 5 km. long, and is prolonged towards the south by a bajir. The expedition, leaving the northern end by its inflow canal, reached after a ride of 35 minutes the little lake of Putarlik-köl, situated in the immediate vicinity of Ojmanköldake-uj.
The next day, the seventeenth, they began by riding for an hour, until they reached the canal which carries water from the river into the Kök-köl. Another ride of 35 minutes on the ice carried them across this lake, which is divided into two basins by a bolta. South of it they discovered two small unnamed lakes. Then after 25 minutes over a sandy isthmus they reached what they describe as a loghraklikjer, apparently a depression or hollow in the sand, where poplars grow abundantly. This little desert forest was zo minutes in diameter. The next object visited was a small nameless lake farther to the east. Then across another low sandy isthmus northwards to a second Ghol-köl, which it took them 25 minutes to ride across, and on the northern shore of which stood a satma. North of the Ghol-köl was an accumulation of sand, and the country north of that again was called Toghraklikeger-asti. Thence it was I V2 hours to the dried-up lake of Schah Mansurningötäk-kölning-aghsi. Close beside it was Arsumet-kona-satmasi. A district lying between the river and the high sand was called Schikak; my Schikak-köl will evidently lie south of that district. The other names for that day are Jangi-suning-köl-aghsi, and, finally, the camping station of Jangi-su-mähällä.
The eighteenth day was utilised for an excursion to the adjacent lake of Jangisu, which according to Tschernoffs' account is a desert lake belonging to the same category as the Begelik-köl and the other lakes. It appears to have an irregular and ragged shore-line, broken by numerous projecting capes and by boltas. A large basin on its western side bore no name. On its south-western and southern side were two bajirs with vegetation. South and east of the lake there are said to be jilghas, or »long, narrow valleys» in the sand, containing toghrak forest.
The following are the names recorded on the nineteenth day. First Ak-kattikköl, an extremely small lake. Then Kala-sugha-jaghilghan-jer, a district beside the
Kona-tarim, or an older bed of the Tarim long since abandoned, and lying southwest of the existing bed; this Kona-tarim is said to form an open strip or jilgha
Hedin, Tourney in Central Asia. ll. 65
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