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A gale blew during the night and there was

more snow. But they pushed on and marched

13 miles to Na-lu Tso camp. All day the road

lay up and down over high grass downs with

streams flowing south-west, presumably into the

Yangtze. After fording the two branches of the

Druga Chu they climbed to the Dru La at 34 miles,

and then descended to more open country and,

after fording the Tsai-mo Chu, climbed to the Tsai-mo La, about 13,500 feet, at 9-I miles, beyond

which they descended a nice grassy valley about

a mile wide, and after fording the Chu-gu Chu,

flowing W.S.W., followed it up and camped beside

the lake, some 12 mile long by three-quarters of a mile broad, at an elevation of 13,111 feet.

On October 17 they marched 16 miles to Lung-

ni camp. At 21- miles they came across a big

camp of nomads who said they were Jyade and not

Nyarong people. After this there were alternately

very stony ascents or ascents up grassy valleys to Momu Nya-ra, 14,244 feet, at 111 miles, which is

the Yangtze-Ho Chu divide. They then crossed

a great slightly undulating very stony plateau extending some 15 or 20 miles to the north-west

and north. The path then descends to a small lake 200 yards wide and 2 feet deep. And beyond

this is a descent down an open rocky valley, in which they camped at an elevation of 13,790 feet.

This evening he was, if anything, a little better.

The same utterly desolate country—" a great

gloomy country, especially as I still felt seedy "

—was passed through on October 17 as they

marched 17 miles to Raju-sumdo camp. The

way led down valleys for 8i miles, and then they

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