| THE RANGE OF LAMLUNG-LA. 161 were three Tibetan tents and sheepfolds. The inhabitants complained of having lost a large part of their flocks from some disease. The name of the place was given as Sumju. Panorama I o6A and I o6B, Tab. 19, is very instructive as it again gives a much better representation of the high mountains to the S. W. than could be given in words. The dark range to the E. N. E. was called Keva-tamchuk. To the S. 83° E., was Chang-a, which was in accordance with earlier information. Such was also the case with Chag-a or Chaga ftungnak. The valley to the S. S. E. which we had to follow the next day, they called Tebuk. Continuing in it to the south, we would in two days cross a pass called Gurtse-la. As it came out, we left this pass and its valley to our right and continued to the Lamlung-la, situated more to the east. The Gui-tse-la is, however, a pass of the same orographical rank as the Lamlung-la and is situated in the same southern range stretching east and west. West of Gurtse-la is still another pass in the same range, called Sha-la. Another tributary valley leads up to it, probably starting from somewhere about Camp XCI V The road the Tibetans of Sumju proposed to us, would, therefore, take us to Tomocliaj5ko, the Gurtse valley, Gurtse-la, and on its southern side, to Gurmu-hlarang, from where we would reach Ngangtse-tso and Kemar. Thence we could continue through a place called Samga, to Latse-dsong. Returning to the panorama we find a series of high pyramidal peaks beginning from S. i3° W. and stretching the whole way to N. 75° W. The peaks from S. 85° W. to N. 75° W. may, however, belong to another range, as they seem to be situated much nearer to us than the peaks which come to an end at about S. 7 5° W. From the map, Pl. 6, one gets the impression that the Serki-yari is a nearly meridional range stretching along the eastern shore of Tang yung-lsaka, whereas the range, with the passes Lamlung--la and Gurtse-la, seems to stretch east and west, or nearly at right angles to the Serki-yari. It is, of course, impossible to make out the orography at such a great distance. But it may be that the two ranges just mentioned are in reality only one, and that the Serki-yari by and by turns to the S. E., E. S. E. and east, forming a semi-circle, turning its convexity to the Dangrayum-tso. Some informants called the western mountains Serka. The different peaks had no special names. The highest peaks to the north, belonging to the range we had crossed in Sarya-la, were called Ngorcha, and were now visible to the N. 49° W. and N. 3o° W. The names agreed with those we had obtained before. But as a rule the Tibetans are not always reliable in their information. Thus the Dagtse-tso was pointed out as being situated to the N. 5° E. though it is situated to the N. E. A seven days' march was said to separate us from Govo and one month from Shigalse. As to the Sertsang-chu, the most probable conclusion is that it comes to an end in a self-contained basin somewhere to the N. E., and that the erosion beds from Sarya-la, which were directed to the S. E., go to the same depression. 2!. IV. | |
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