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CHAPTER 11I.
THE ,THIRD CROSSING OF THE KASHGAR RANGE.
The whole summer of 1894 was given up to wanderings and excursions amongst the glaciers, of Mus-lagh-ala, and to an excursion to Alichur Pamir and Yeshilkul. My experiences from this time are described in Through Asia, Vol. I, in Pelernnanns Mitteilungeìe, Zeitschrift der Ges. für Erdkunde zu Berlin, and elsewhere. In this connection we are concerned only with my different crossings of the Kashgar System of mountain ranges, and we have now arrived at the third crossing, beginning October 9th, 1894, and being my return journey from Mus-tagh-ata viii Igis-yar to Kashgar.
I started from Little Kara-kul which is at an altitude of 3,72o m., and proceeded north-eastwards to the valley of Ike-bel-su and up this river, the southern feeder of Gez-darya, in a E. S. E. and S. E. direction, to the azd of Tuya-kuiruk at an altitude of 3,884 m. The distance is 18 km., the rise 164 m. and the rate of ascent 1 : 1 1 o. The place where we reached the river is called Keng-shvär. In
the summer we had seen the Ike-bel-su as a very mighty river, now it had only 2 or 3 cub. m. of water per second. From the Korumde Glacier to the south it received a tributary of about 1 cub. m. per second. A part of the valley is called
Tokus-bulak. Three northern tributaries are called Shevakte, Chekanak and Teres-ösö. Tuya-kuiruk is a wide open part of the valley where now four tents of Kara-
tells were pitched; the inhabitants are also karaulchis. At Keng-shvär were also four tents. The winter is cold but there is not much snow. The prevailing wind
comes from the S. W. and is hard. The river is covered with thick ice in winter, but there • is always some water flowing.
On October 1 oth our road goes 23 km. N. E. , E., E. S. E. , S. S. E. and
S. E. up through the valley to Tur-bulung, where the altitude is 4,317 m., or a rise of 433 m. at a rate of 1: 53.
Our camp of Tuya-kuiruk was at some distance south of the Ike-bel-su, so we had to return to its course, crossing heaps of old moraines and the brook that still carries half a cubic meter of water per second from the little Tuya-kuiruk Glacier
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