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Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.3 | |
1899-1902年の中央アジア旅行における科学的成果 : vol.3 |
CHAPTER XXXI.
OVER THE ARKA-TAGH FROM KAPA.
In order that I may gather together into one place all my investigations into northern and eastern Tibet, I have thought well to introduce into this volume a short account of the journey which I carried out in August and September i 896 in the great latitudinal valley that lies immediately south of the Arka-tagh, and is itself bordered on the opposite or southern side by the flat range which constitutes the westward continuation of the Koko-schili.*
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Fig. 393. THE VALLEY OF KAPA LOOKING S.
On 3oth July T 896 I started from the gold-mines of Kapa (alt., 2521 m.) with a big caravan of horses, camels, and asses, intending to travel viâ Julghun-tschap, Kara-tasch, and Toghrak-tschap to Dalai-kurghan, crossing over the gentle spurs of the mountains on my way. I had been told by the natives, that at the place last-mentioned one could advantageously find a way up to the Tibetan highland. Our route crossed over the river Mit, which comes down out of a wild and spacious transverse glen opening out directly south. Shortly after emerging from the mountains, this glen expands to a breadth of several hundred meters, but still continues to be inclosed between steep gravel-and-shingle terraces. The river, which unites lower down with the Kara-muran, contained at that time no small amount of water, though it was divided into several branches scattered over its stony bed. The rock there consisted of a grey biotitic granite of medium grain. A steep path leads down the
* I have already described it in Peterm. Milted., Ergänzhft. No. 131, pp. 271 ff., and of that
description the present is a condensed extract.
Hedin, Tourney in Central Asia. III. 67
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