ACROSS THE SATSCHU-TSANGPO AND BACK AGAIN.
The road, which we still continued to follow without knowing where it led to, carried us towards the south-south-east, across the broad cauldron valley, or more correctly the eastern end of the great latitudinal valley. Some I o kilometers farther to the east, it appeared to be bounded by low hills. We crossed over a
great number of brooks, containing but little water, though bordered by marshy, treacherous ground. All these watercourses gather into a river, that runs towards the N. 70° W., and no doubt terminates in some small lakes which we saw south of Camp LI. A few kilometers beyond our last camp the road bifurcated, one
Fig. 385. TIBETAN CAVALRY.
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