368 ALONG THE UPPER TSANGPO TO THE MANASAROVAR.
On August 12th, Pan. 287, Tab. 52, was sketched from a point 6.5 km. south of Camp CCXVIII on the slope of Gurla-mandala. On this sketch we get the first view of Rakas-tal, and see both lakes with the neck of land between them. As usual Kailas commands the northern horizon. Pan. 291, Tab. 53, is drawn from a pass west of the Namreldi valley.
From Camp CCXIX at Ciiu-gompa, Pan. 295, Tab. 54, shows the monastery on its hill. Pan. 294, Tab. 54, is a sketch from a point a short distance west of the camp and shows the bridge across the Ngangga, or brook, which in some years carries the superfluous water of the Manasarovar into the Rakas-tal. Pan. 297, Tab. 54, shows the waterfilled part of the channel above the bridge. From a hill above, I drew Pan. 299A and B, Tab. 55. It is instructive for it shows nearly the whole course of the Ngangga. To the far left we see a part of the Manasarovar, and, at the base of the hill, the Ngangga rivulet and the mountains bounding it to the south. To the W. S. W. we can follow the winding course of the Ngangga down to the Rakas-tal, the northern part of which is visible to the N. 79° W. This western part of the channel was dry at my visit as I have explained in Vol. II. To the N. 15° W. is Kailas in clouds , and to the N. 55° E. the Pundi. Pan. 298 , Tab. 54, may be regarded as a continuation of the one just described, though it is taken from another point quite near the first. The Pundi appears again at the left end, and the ridge of Caergip-gompa. Opposite, to the S. 774° E., is Camp CCXII, the first on the lake.
Pan. 300A and B, Tab. 55, from Camp CCXX gives a view of the Kailas to the N. 39° W., the Pundi to the north, the Packung and Packen to the N. E. A part of the lagoon Ting-tso is also in sight. Pan. 302, Tab. 55 is drawn from a point between the Packung and Packen, giving a perspective of the Gurla-mandata to the S. 23° W. and S. 28° W. From Pundi g-ompa we observe Pan. 3o3, Tab. 56, with a view of Gurla-mandata, and, in the foreground, the lagoon Kurgyal-tso. From Ckergip-gompa between Camp CCXXII and Camp CCXIX, the Gurla is visible under a somewhat different aspect. Cp. Pan. 304, Tab. 56.
Turning our attention to the Rakas-lal, we have first to consider Pan. 296A and B, Tab. 54, which is taken from a pass of 4,887 m. on the mid point of the neck of land between the two lakes, thus being 285 m. above the surface of the Manasarovar and 298 m. above the surface of the Rakas-tal. The view from this point is magnificent. It is impossible, it is true, to get an adequate idea of the outlines of the lake from one single reconnoitring like this, but this much at once becomes clear, namely, that the Rakas-tal is still more framed with mountains than the Manasarovar, that at least five narrow promontories are directed to the north from its southern shore, that it has some three islands in its southern part, and that
it becomes narrower to the north.
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