| of the valley of Cain! LXXVI. Senjung was a spring a short distance south of the same camp. Gelam-lapsang are the mountains N. E. and east of Camp LXXVII, Uluba is a mountain N. W. of the same camp, Chulu-rang is the valley and spring of Camp LXXVII. The pass situated a short distance S. W. of the same camp he called Kardo-la, though it was called Kolok-la by other informants. Hoko-la was a third denomination for it. This apparent confusion no doubt is due to the fact that there are, as we had heard, three different roads across the Gelam-lapsang Range, and each of these roads leads to its own pass. Kolok-la seems to be the most reliable name for the pass we crossed; the two other passes were said to be situated to the east of it. Regarding the road in front of us, the Tibetans gave us the following information : Clzupta was the name of the district where we would have our next camp : south of it we would come across some salt lakes or pools called Tseringnakta-Iso, from which we had only one day to Bogtsang-tsangpo. Tagra-ripclza was said to be the name of a mountain west of Kolok-la, and Pota-lam a mountain east of the same pass. The latter, however, later on proved to be doubtful, as we found to the north of Bogtsang-tsangpo a mount called Patu-loma, which indicates a confusion both of names and situation. Our road which was intended to lead us to Dangra yunz - Iso was said to pass by the following stages , after Chupta and Tsering-nakta-tso : 7ogdse, Daktse, Shiseka, Clzokjung, 7ontsa, Langjung, Chazna, Lamjung and Serkung. I mention these names only for their own sake, for on our road in the direction of Dangra yunz-Iso we could not identify a single one of them. They may, however, be situated on a quite different road than the one followed by us. Just south of Kolok-la a direct road was said to run to Lhasa passing by Dagjung, Kabjur, Boggtsang-tsangpo, and Shagerak; Sterngna gangri was said to be a snow-covered mountain beside this road. The day had been cloudy and some snow had fallen on the mountains to the north, one of which was said to be the real Hoko. The temperature was a little higher than hitherto or —21.6° on the night of December 2nd and —22.6° the next night. Nor was the wind so hard as before. The day's march on December j rd was 10.5 km. to the S. S. W. , and Camp LXXVIII was at 4,784 m. or 107 m. below Camp LXXVII. Between the two, we crossed the pass Kolok-la at 5,013 m.; being a threshold in the fairly insignificant latitudinal range of Gelam-lapsang which thus separates two self-contained basins from one another. Between dark hills a little valley leads up to the pass which is only 2 2 m. above the camp. On the pass there is a cairn of stones. The living rock here consists of red fine-grained calcareous sandstone. From here there was no other living rock the whole way to Camp LXXVIII where light red chalk-limestone cropped out in a little knoll. I hardly had time to draw a half panorama |
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