IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
330 THE RETURN
whether there was any higher peak than Everest at the
back of. the Himalayas.
But the party would have to race against time, for
they had many hundreds of miles to traverse, and had to
cross the Himalayas back to Simla before the winter
finally closed the passes. They had also to face the
possibility of obstruction in the matter of supplies and
transport, and even the possibility of active hostility, for
they would be travelling with no other escort than a
Gurkha orderly apiece through a country which had only
recently been in open arms against us.
Captain O'Connor and Mr. Magniac accompanied
them as far as Shigatse, and Lieutenant Bailey, 32nd
Pioneers, a keen and adventurous officer, who had dis-
tinguished himself with .the mounted infantry, and in his
leisure moments learnt Tibetan, was also attached to the
party to proceed to India.
Captain O'Connor was most warmly received by the
Tashi Lama, and laid the foundation of as sincere a friend-
ship as Bogle had with his predecessor. Every arrange-
ment was readily made, and the party was despatched
under the best possible auspices. Its result Captain
Ryder, -who was awarded the gold medal of the Royal
Geographical Society, has given in a lecture before that
Society.
The survey work had to be conducted under the most
trying conditions. Besides the ordinary march, high
mountains had to be ascended for purposes of observation,
and these observations in winds of hurricane force and in
piercing cold were wellnigh impossible to make. From a
spot directly opposite Everest the surveyors saw this sup orb
mountain towering up high above the rest of the range
with a drop of 8,000 feet on either side, and the point was
settled that there v,Tas no other peak on the north approach-
ing it in height. They surveyed the Brahmaputra (San-po)
to its source, as well as the Gartok branch of the Indus.
They established the trade-mart at Gartok, installing a
native agent there. They completed the survey of the
Sutlej from its source (which they concluded was among
the hills on either side of the lake region) to British
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