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0098 Southern Tibet : vol.9
Southern Tibet : vol.9 / Page 98 (Color Image)

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CHAPTER VIII.

TO THE KANDAHAR PASS.

The next day, August i 9th, I travelled N. E. and E. N. E. 47.7 km. to Mehnaan yoli where the Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission was then stationed and where I stayed until September i 3th. According to the English map, the altitudes of the two endpoints are 3,993 and 3,896 m. The valley of the uppermost Ak-sic therefore, in a distance of 47.7 km., falls only 97 m. or at a rate of i :485.

From the southern part of the N. E. end of the lake the Ak-su has its effluence and flows in an undecided bed from pool to pool and from swamp to swamp towards the N. E. and E. N. E. in its broad and open valley which to the north is bordered by the range that was baptised »Range of Emperor Nicholas the 2nd» by the British Commissioners , and to the south by the range called by the natives Mus-tagh. The river gradually increases as it gets tribute from nearly all the small valleys at both sides. To the left or north I noted seven names for tributary valleys, whereas the English map has eight. In the following table my names are in the first series, the English in the second :

Echkele   Ichkele

A nameless jilga   Mulk-ili

Andemin   Kara jilga

Kara jilga   Andimin

A nameless jilga   Tas-tere

Yaman-ang   Kizil-chur

Shoro   Sari-tash

Orta-bel   Jilga to Yaman-shura Pass

A nameless jilga   A nameless jilga

Gunche-Bai   Jilga to Urta-bel Pass

Six small nameless   Two nameless jilgas

jilgas.   Gunzhibai-jilga

Mahomet-jilga Tash-jilga Yul-beles.

 
       
     

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