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0330 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.1
Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.1 / Page 330 (Color Image)

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196   ON THE OTRUGHUL GLACIER CH. XVI

of that valley could not even approximately be determined.

But there was only too much reason to believe that the

stout denial of any knowledge of a passage over the moun-

tains southward to the high Tibetan plateaus from which

Johnson had descended, was due to the fear that the re-

discovery of that long-closed route might expose the

dwellers of these forsaken valleys to passing traffic and—

fresh imposts and corvées.