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0153 Peking to Lhasa : vol.1
北京からラサへ : vol.1
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THE START FOR TIBET   115

Big flocks of sheep and some cattle were grazing

on it and there were some Tibetan tents. He also

saw many Brahminy ducks and sixteen geese.

Some stray horses walked up to within 20

yards of them. The western part of the plain

was very sandy, and on May 17 the party crossed

a dreary valley of sand and scrub for 8 miles,

when they came to another huge grass plain

stretching north to the same range as had been

crossed on the previous day.   Fine grazing

country with many Tibetan flocks and tents was

crossed on May 18, and in places the ground was

honeycombed by countless rats (possibly a small

species of marmot). He also saw a few gazelle,

but they were very wild. In the daytime it was

warm enough after the first hour for him to shed

his coat and gloves.

Ta-ho-pa was reached on May 19. Pereira

had taken a day longer than Sorensen, but he had

travelled by a longer route .where water was more

plentiful. Here there was a fort with about

70 infantry under Ma Ch'i's orders ; though

beyond placing these garrisons he had done nothing

to develop the country. Pereira made the dis-

tance from Tangar 150 miles. In the valley of

the Ta-ho there were some trees the first he had

seen since leaving the Sining Ho valley. He was

delayed here by a snowstorm. He had also to

await the arrival of an escort, for it was unsafe to

go beyond this unescorted on account of the

Golok raiders.

Some 30 or 40 mounted soldiers with 50 or

60 mules having arrived, Pereira set out again

on May 24 and climbed the small Cha-su-ra