Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 / Page 339 (Color Image)

0339	Peking to Lhasa : vol.1

THE END 255

at 51 miles the Jya-rei La, about 13,650 feet, is

crossed. After which there are rolling grassy

downs, and at 81 miles is the Sa-ma La, about

13,750 feet. Then there was a descent to the great

Jara - güng plain, some 5 or 6 miles wide, on the

north - west corner of which Pereira camped at

13,450 feet.

" I felt seedy and wretched ", he writes at the

end of his diary for the day.

On October 15 he marched 84 miles to a camp

in the Chao-lung valley. The way lay up and

down over grass downs. At 5 4 miles was the

Chao-lung La, about 13,500 feet, on the far side of

which the way lay down a narrow valley, in which

he first met the Nyarong (or Chan-tui) nomads,

the Wa-shi having ended at the Jara-güng plain.

The elevation of the camp was 12,885 feet. It

was slightly warmer here, and Thompson says that

an attack of vomiting seemed to give him relief,

and some bismuth and other drugs with which he

treated Pereira eased him slightly. But he was

more disturbed than he usually was at the rumours

of brigands ahead which they heard here. It was

said that the brigands had killed two men and

driven off some animals. Pereira asked Thomp-

son's opinion, and the doctor voted for pushing on,

as they were then only a few days from Kanze, and

he was anxious to get his patient into some kind

of shelter where food could be cooked in some

better way than by rough camp - fires ; for all

this time he was eating very little. Milk, biscuits,

Bovril and cornflour was all Thompson could get

him to take ; and even these only in very small

quantities.

National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project
Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books