IIIF Color HighRes
National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project
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Citation Information
THE LAST OF THE DEASY GROUP.
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character, beginning from N. 60° W. and in the course of half an hour turning over north and N. E. to E. N. E., after which it diminished in force.
On October 7th we proceeded i 2.3 km. between N. E. and E. N. E. to Camp XXXIII, where the height is 4,923 m. or 46 m. above the previous camp, meaning a gentle rise of the ground, as i :267. We are still following the enormous latitudinal valley to the E. N. E. and the landscape remains extremely monotonous. From Canip XXXII the Deasy Group was visible to the S. 44° W., and the principal peaks of the snowy Kwen-lun Range to the S. 88° W., N. 63° W., N. 31° W. between these two there may well be a latitudinal valley — and N. 13° W.
Starting from Camp XXXII, we leave the main brook behind to our left, where it makes a bend to the north and N. E., and empties into the salt marshes of the western shore of the next lake. The lake is, however, not yet in sight. It is hidden by a ridge of low hills situated on its southern shore. Following the southern base of these hills, we cross a series of small erosion furrows all bound for a very long and narrow depression, the bottom of which is covered with a sheet of perfectly level yellow clay that has been brought down in the form of silt by the temporary watercourses around. Slowy ascending the hills, we get a beautiful view
': of the whole lake. Continuing on the top of the hills we find a spring of fresh water. At Camp XXXIII the grass is as good as before. This part of Tibet had indeed proved to be much more favourable than I had suspected. The only difficulties are the continual hard winds, and the early cold, which last night had been down to —24.8°.
. W. wind. A good deal of the S. W. part of the lake was now frozen over, but he ice was still so thin that it became broken up by the wind and drifted over he lake. The water is salt though not of a very high percentage. On the northern .bore, there are low barren hills; on the southern, our ridge of hills falls rather s irectly into the shore, though here also are some patches or stripes of flat land with : few points of white silt or clay. We were about 6o m. above the lake, the absolute
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