Of Shuru-tso, I now heard for the first time ; it was shown as being situated to the S. 45° W., though it is S. S. W. of our Camp XCI. I understood it must be the same lake which Nain Sing had heard of and called Siru-tso. From Kernar, our informant knew only one road to Shigatse, though three existed ; the western and eastern, he had not travelled, but the one in the middle, which was the best and the nearest, he knew. It was said to pass by Nalamchen and Gyangise, mentioned above, Tsigor, Sebseb, a pass, Lumsang, Nagma-chu, a large river that even now is open , and in summer is 1 m. deep ; from there the Targo Mountains are visible and may be reached in one day on horseback ; then Nagma-churn, Busikibyung, Lingyu, Targo-tsangpo, coming from the Targo Mountains and corresponding to Nain Sing's Dumphu. Targo is here pronounced as Targut. Then the valley of Targo - tsanå po is followed viâ Tarok, Leh - nakting, Ladya and Tuba-la, after which one arrives at Tangne, with a cornice-road and a little lake called Shung-tso; then Kokyu, Shungtanb , Shungok, with a little pass, Dangdo, with a high pass called Shovo-la, Sarokting, Yarung-pikya, a village with stone huts and cultivated ground; Kerne, Rudok-song, Na-keyu, Namling-song, well-known on our maps and four days from Shigatse. Our informant left the latter town alone, and passed by Nang-la, the village Saulung, Ngo, Nga-lagang, Parka, Nebyi, Chungar, where the Tsangpo is crossed, Latse, Gyanglep, a village, and Sakya-tumyu, to the famous monastery of Sakya. A few of these names may be identified, but most of them are unknown to us. So much is certain : that many routes cross the Transhimalaya in different directions, which have to be explored in the future.
On our arrival at Camp XCI, a Tibetan caravan was seen approaching the same place from the east. It consisted of a few men on horseback driving 12 ponies and 1 0o sheep loaded with barley and roasted meal or /samba which had been bought somewhere farther south and payed for with salt. Now the caravan was on its way to the Bogtsang-isangpo, where the men had their homes, belonging to the Naktsang province. The provisions would be sufficient for the winter when distributed among several other tents, the rest of their food consisting of milk and the flesh of wild yaks or, if game is scarce, the flesh of sheep.
On the plain north of the camp several antelopes were seen, both Pantholops hodgsoni and Gazella picticaudata, in small herds or two and three together. Wolves were also seen in our neighbourhood.
On December 21/h, we made 9.7 km. to the S. E. crossing the Dongying Range in the pass Sarya-la. To the latter we had 5.8 km. ; the altitude of the pass is at 4,865 m. or 72 m. above Camp XCI, the rise, therefore, being very gradual and comfortable, or as I : 81. On the south side, we had 3.9 km. to Camp XCII where the height is 4,805 m., being a fall of 6o m., or as 1 :65. From the figures given,
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