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Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 | |
北京からラサへ : vol.1 |
86 PEKING TO LHASA
prayer wheels all the length, and a party of
Tibetans were moving along chanting and turning
the wheels. From this place to Ta-shih-t'ou, 161
miles, there was not a house. And even at this
latter place there was only a wretched draughty
hovel with one public room, which Pereira shared
with his boys and escort. The way to this hovel
lay up the right bank of the stream. The valley
widened to a mile, with high rocky hills on either
side, and gradually the grass gave way to low
scrub, whilst the hill-sides were covered with fir
trees. A broad, good road led gradually up to
the Kung-kang Ling, 11,970 feet, the pass over
the divide between the Min and Kialing Rivers.
Snow and ice gradually increased towards the
summit. The descent to the hovel at Ta-shih-t'ou
was steep and lay through a fir forest covered with
snow. On the east side of the valley were rugged
hills rising to a height of 17,000 feet and running
north-west to south-east.
The descent was continued on February 13.
For the first 6 miles the road ran through a fir
forest down a deep valley between huge rocky
ranges from 3000 to 5000 feet above the road.
Farther on other trees were mixed with the firs.
After 14 miles the trees became fewer and three
or four hovels were passed. The morning was
bright, but deep down in the valley the air was
very cold. T'a-tsang, a village of thirteen families
and containing a very clean inn, was the first
village from Ka-mi-ssu, a distance of 41 miles.
The drop from the summit of the pass to T'a-tsang
is 3590 feet. From here there is a small road
leading direct to Cho-ni up the valley Pai-shui Ho,
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