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0057 Southern Tibet : vol.9
Southern Tibet : vol.9 / Page 57 (Color Image)

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TRIBUTARY VALLEYS.   35

down the valley, but are as a rule rather stationary. The winter is cold with little snow. At the end of October the mountains are white with snow. The summer had so far been cloudy and chilly, and the Muchi-su therefore was unusually small. After strong sunshine it may grow so big that it cannot be crossed. As was said before, it carries the water from the valleys Kara-art, Kara-sok, Oi-balgan and Ararut. In the spring there are winds from the west and W. N. W. Three beks were said to be the administrative chiefs of these northern parts of Sarikol; the one of Muchi, Imet Bek, commanding from Kara-art to Kün-times; the one of Bulunkul, Jan Mohammed Bek, from the latter place to Chaker-agil, and south of him Togdasin Bek of Su-Bashi.

On July loth we travelled 34.6 km. E. S. E. and S. E. sinking 96 m., or from 3 ,4 15 ni. to 3,319 m., being at a rate of I : 36o. Some short distance below the camp we crossed the river, which now carried about 3.5 cub. m, per second, but increased in the course of the day, partly from the arrival of water from melting snow and ice, and partly from the addition of small tributary brooks. In the higher regions of the mountains to our left was a great deal of snow; the southern mountains were hidden by clouds.

Having passed the two awls of four tents each, we have to our right two tributary valleys which join before reaching the main valley; the western one called Kok-task has no road and no yeilaks, whilst the eastern one has yeilaks but no road. To our left opens the valley Orta-sai with a rocky path to Ulug-art. A little farther on to the right we pass two insignificant jilgas, Kichik-bulung and Kumnjilga, both without roads or human dwellings. To the left the valley Bereden-sai is comparatively large, but without importance. Küüshden-sai is a large, sharply modelled ji/ a with glaciers in the background and surrounded by snowy mountains. At the mouth of the last-mentioned valley is an uninhabited place called Igis yarningrobat, where a clay-cupola serves as a shelter for wanderers. Opposite to it, at the right side of the main valley, against which the river is pressing, our road crosses a little projecting rocky promontory, 1 ash-kiya, of mica-schist and gneiss in 29° S. 60° W., and farther on 26° W. At this place where the fan of Küüshden-sai makes the valley narrow, the river forms small rapids, and grows to a volume of 9.6 cub. m. per second.

At Tash-kiya the grass-grown plains of the valley come to an end, after which the whole floor of the valley is filled with the gravel from the screes at the base of the mountains. Farther on T ujnanchi jilg'a comes out from the right; it is considerable, but uninhabited and without a road. At its mouth the main valley is again broad and provided with grazing ground. From the left enters the large jilg=a of Buru-kös, which has an enormous scree of gravel between mighty terraces of pebbles and shingle. By this valley a nearly never used path leads to the pass of Buru-kös,