IIIF Color HighRes
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| In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan : vol.1 |
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252 IN TIBET AND CHINESE TURKESTAN.
country, and had crossed five passes, one of which was about 16,550 feet high. Our camp .(137) was pleasantly situated at an open part of the valley, where we found abundance of good dry driftwood and, not far off, a little kamish grass. It was necessary to halt for a day to rest the tired yaks and to await the arrival of some fresh ones. In my sunny quarters I spent the time mainly in checking
J,OOKING DOWN THE VALLEY OF THE YARKAND RIVER FROM THE MOUTH".OF
THE MISGAN JILGA.
the . errors of the chronometers.-by means of a system of
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latitudes and ah 'azimuth of about 1800 to the . pillar
erected in the previous winter. close to the Topa Dawan. - Barn Singh spent the day profitably in. sketching, and the yak-men-roughly repaired the much-injured baggage.
To -determine' the thickness of . the ice on the Yarkand River;+ which, under the high vertical bark- close to the Mouth of. the.- Misgan J'ilga, was nearly frozen across, I
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