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0030 Innermost Asia : vol.2
極奥アジア : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000187
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Section III.—ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS TO TURFĀN

Approach
to Pa-no-p'a
valley.
On October 22nd a very enjoyable march in true mountain scenery took us from Ch'üan-tzŭ-
chieh far up into the Pa-no-p'a valley. For close on five miles the route ascended a fertile alluvial
fan, well cultivated from scattered farms and rich in trees and shrubs. From where the road
neared the bed of the stream that descends from the Pa-no-p'a valley, the northern and western
slopes of the spurs flanking the latter could be seen to be clad with dense conifer forest. It was
curious to notice this distribution of the forest growth, as it contrasted with that observed on the
slopes above the Barkul valley, where just the western slopes were bare and the eastern wooded.
The explanation is probably to be sought in a difference of climatic conditions between the two
ranges. The first of the fir-clad spurs was reached at a distance of seven miles from Ch'üan-tzŭ-
chieh (Fig. 299).

Ascent past
forest-clad
slopes.
From here onwards the track, no longer practicable for carts, wound up and down past steep
slopes covered with rich grass or forest. The trees came down to both sides of the tossing mountain
stream, which the route from above Lo-t'o-p'u-tzŭ repeatedly crossed, and the scenery assumed
a character distinctly reminding me of Kashmīr (Fig. 296). A large valley, known as Pa-no-cha,
of which we passed the mouth at an elevation of about 7,000 feet, was seen to descend straight from
a conspicuous snowy massif in the south. Up to an elevation of about 9,000 feet it was clothed
with dense forest, which looked as if it had never been touched by the axe. The route continued
to the south-west over grassy slopes above the left bank of the stream and a mile farther on brought
us to the few log huts of Pa-no-p'a, at an elevation of about 7,500 feet.¹ These serve as a resting-
place on the north side of the pass.