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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
CHAPTER X
KHAMBA JONG
Now that Chinese and Tibetan representatives of some
kind had appeared, even though they were not of much
rank or accredited with much power, I thought it well to
proceed to Khamba Jong to get into touch with them,
and form my own impression of how matters stood. I
therefore rode straight through from Tangu to Khamba
Jong on the 18th, accompanied by Mr. Dover, the
Sikkim engineer, who had made such excellent rough
roads and bridges, and escorted by a few mounted men.
After Tangu the mountain-sides became more and
more barren ; trees were replaced by low shrubs and
dwarf rhododendrons, and higher up they, too, disappeared,
till, when we crossed the Kangra-la (pass), there was
nothing but rough coarse scrub. The pass itself was easy
enough, though it was just over 17,000 feet in height.
As we descended from it we were at length really in
Tibet, and the change was most marked. In place of
narrow valleys were great wide plains, intersected indeed
by distant ranges of mountains, and absolutely devoid of
trees, but open and traversable in every direction. The
sky, too, was clear. The great monsoon clouds were left
behind, and the sun shone with a power which brought
the temperature up to 82° in the shade, and made it
quite uncomfortably hot at midday, though at night there
were 4° of frost.
As we rode on into Tibet and got out into the open,
and well away from the Himalayan range, we obtained
a glorious view of that stupendous range from Chumal-
hari, 24,000 feet, on the extreme east, to Kinchinjunga,
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