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| In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan : vol.1 |
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PILIPERT. 241
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cf.-de-merit, but this execrable drop, or " chute," if not alis©Iutely the worst descent I ever became acquainted with, was certainly surpassed in viléness by none.
- About four o'clock in the afternoon we reached the two stone .huts of Pilipert, whose distance in a straight line froth. Chadder Tash did not exceed four miles. The caravan, consisting of a few yaks, ponies, and donkeys, with men in sufficient numbers to render all assistance that could be given, had taken nearly eight hours to the
march. _
One of the small flat-roofed huts, through the walls of Which the biting wind blew as easily as through a sieve, was occupied by a few men in charge of about sixty yak, the herd being brought every winter to graze. The place was 13,850 feet high, but possessed abundant grass: At this spot we found that four routes met—viz., that by which we had just travelled, one leading from Kulan Urgi, and a third and fourth to the west end of Raskam. During the evening there was unusual excitement and hubbub among the yak-men while they discussed among themselves the choice of my next route. • Their opinions and counsels were divided, but I was too busy with my observations and computations to pay any attention to then, and when my work was completed quiet had been restored in the company.
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