IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Southern Tibet : vol.4 | |
| 南チベット : vol.4 |
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引用情報
THROUGH THE KARA-KORUM VALLEYS.
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S. 7 8° E. we notice in profile a series of five well developed terraces at the foot of the mountains between the upper Kograng River and the valley to Lanek-la. It should be remembered that a complete panorama of the same kind as the one in question would be best understood, if its two ends were joined together, forming a ring in the middle of which the eye of the spectator was to be placed. The compass bearings of the panorama should make it easy to arrange the panorama in accordance with the four cardinal points.
At such a place as Gogra where two extremely seldom used valleys meet, one may easily be uncertain which of the two is the best, especially as the natives themselves were not at all certain. The Numberdar of Pobrang pretended that both valleys could be used as both had roads which crossed the great water-parting range. Judging from the amount of water, the Cliang-lung yogma or »Lower Northern Valley» is nearer the great range of the Kara-korum and drains a comparatively small area, whereas the Cizang-lung-baring, which is indeed the upper course of the Kograngsansj5o alias Chang--chenmo, drains a considerable area, but presents a greater distance
to the pass that carries its name. From one point of view the Chang-lung yogma t
was preferable, viz. as being the shortest road for reaching the Tibetan highlands, through which the distance to my goal, the perfectly unknown regions north of the Tsangpo, was under all conditions very great.
On August 2 811i, we accomplished the march to a place called Chula at a distance :.
of 13 km. up in the Chang-lung-yogma valley. As Chuta has a height of 4,882 m., k,
the rise is 142 m. only, or i : 91. s, which may be said to be a comparatively slow, ascent so near the crest of the highest water-parting range on the earth's crust. Just above the camp the .Kograng-sansfto was crossed. The river was now smaller
than the day before, which was quite natural after the several tributaries we had L
left behind. The velocity of the stream was greater. In the very angle between
the two Chang-lung Rivers, there was a niskan or cairn built up, unusually big :V
and visible all around. It may date from the days of the Forsyth Mission, which, at least partly, seems to have taken the track up the valley of the Chang-lung yogma.
From here an old way was also said to have passed to Shahidullah and Yarkand. 4
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In the same angle the living rock consisted of black schist containing quartz, which was partly in a state of very advanced decomposition and weathering.
From this place the Chang-/zing-barma valley appeared to come from the
N. 6o° W., and in its background snow-covered mountains were to be seen. Between these and another group without snow, and visible to the right of the first, the road up to Chang-lung-barma-la was said to pass. But in this point the information
given by the natives was, as I have said before, unreliable and the Numberdar )1
of Pobrang, who had been there some 3o years before, admitted that he had forgotten `u
all details.
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