| From the same camps, I took small panoramic sketches of the group to the S. W. and W. S. W. from Camp CII and to the S. S. E., south and S. S. W. from Camp CIII, as will be seen on Pl. 2i in Vol. IV of the work mentioned, p. 142. P. 139 et seq., in the same volume, I give a description of the Sha-kangsham as I saw it from the east and north in I 901. Both descriptions agree very well and show that the group has exactly the same features and configuration on both sides. The identification of Sha-kangsham was very valuable as a means of connecting and checking my maps of 1901 and 1908. The route of 1901, has no doubt been crossed by the route of 1908 just north of the pass, Yum-tso-la. Camp CV of 190 i , 4,812 m. high, was obviously situated• somewhere in the neighbourhood of the three Tibetan tents between Camps CCCLVII and CCCL VIII of 1908, where the two above-mentioned valleys met and went to Tongka-tso. Near Camp CV of 1901, there is also a bearing N. I o° E. to a lake, and from Camp CVI there is a bearing N. 6o° E. to the same lake, the latter no doubt being Tongka-tso. In accordance with these facts, Colonel Byström has also plotted this region on the map of 1: I ,000,000, sheet XI. Just north of Sha-kangshanz I entered in 1901, the same road which Littledale had taken in 1895. He also mentions the mighty snow massif and gives it the correct name. From this point, where I crossed the road of Littledale and myself, I had now absolutely unknown country to the south for 2 7o km. as the crow flies, down to the route of Ryder in 1904, in the Tsangpo valley. On March 21st, we made 7.4 km. S. S. E. In these regions, our marches were very short. Our little caravan consisted of sheep and yaks, both going very slowly, and accustomed to short marches; our last mules and ponies were quite worn out. From the camp on Kangshain-tsangpo, we had 4 km. to the next pass, situated in a little latitudinal range which we had to cross. Camp CCCLIX was at 4,768 m., and the pass had an altitude of 4,972 m., the rise thus being 2 04 m. and the rate being as 1: 2O. From the pass, we had 3.4 km. to Camp CCCLX, where the height is 4,882 m., or a fall of 90 m., the rate being as I :38. The minimum temperature of the night was — 18.0°. The new day, the weather was good. The river, Kangsham-tsangpo, was divided into several large and small branches. Around the open water, which could be about 2 or 3 cub. m. per second, the ice was thin and the animals broke through. The river obviously comes from the snows, rudimentary glaciers and springs of Sha-kangsham, as is also indicated by its name. I have no doubt that this river goes out into the Lakor-tso at its southern shore, the distance being only 57 km. My Camp C VIII of 1901, is situated on a river which my Tibetan escort called Some-trans-1o. For one day I followed the river downwards to its mouth in the lake. As our Camp CCCLIX of 1908 had a height of 4,768 m., whereas Lakor-tso has only 4,600 m., this also is in accordance with my assumption. On October 19th, 1901, the river carried, at I o o'clock a. m., only | | |
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