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| Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.4 |
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Citation Information
106 WESTWARDS TO LADAK.
right or southern bank of the river and a few meters above the surface of the lake. The river is there divided into several arms, and bordered on the south by a clearly outlined strand-terrace. The actual outfall into the lake is situated several kilometers towards the north-east, not far south of a little isolated mountain which rises on the north-west shore of the Dagtse-tso. In this region we discovered three nomad tents.
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The main range that runs north of the latitudinal valley in which the lake is situated is crowned by an immense round-topped snowy mass and by several smaller snowy summits; and there were also some rudimentary glacier-arms. During the day the wind had blown hard from the west, and about three in the afternoon it was followed by a couple of showers of rain. Next day, which we devoted to rest, the weather was, on the contrary, astonishingly warm and still, and the air was actually full of buzzing flies. Then followed a sort of Indian summer, though of the briefest, for it only lasted a couple of days; still it was pleasant and beneficial to the caravan.
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