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| 0212 |
Innermost Asia : vol.2 |
| 極奥アジア : vol.2 |
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shan range cut through the intermediate line of broken ridges. The small rocky knoll, marking
the position of Azghan-bulak and lying in the same line, was reached in the dark after a march of
close on 27 miles, and near it we came upon ice formed by a little spring rising in a narrow drainage
bed. There we camped and next morning found the ruined roadside station only a quarter of
a mile to the east by the side of a tiny stream. This is fed by a larger spring, but is also soon lost
in a patch of salt-encrusted scrubby ground. The approximate elevation indicated by the aneroid
was 4,400 feet.
Descent to
Toghrak-
bulak. Our next march followed the ' road ' that the Chinese administration, for some seven years
after the reconquest, had maintained and equipped with postal stations, between Turfān and the
district head-quarters of Lop, then placed at Dōral by the Tārim. We first passed the western
flank of the Ala-tāgh, low but boldly shaped hills apparently of red sandstone, which accounts for
their name. We then crossed a wide peneplain drained by a number of broad shallow flood-beds
towards the depression of Nanchan-bulak (Map No. 29. A, B. 2). Here, too, low broken ridges were
observed emerging in line from the vast bed of detritus. As it approached the conspicuous peak
which marks the south-eastern end of the Shindī-tāgh,⁶ the route led steeply to the top of a rocky
ridge which from a natural reservoir of water near by, dry at the time, is known as Kak-su-dawān.
The plateau here gained is covered with a maze of small hillocks, composed of very hard rock with
veins of quartz, and as the track winds in a boulder-strewn Nullah between them I noticed traces
of a cart road by which a Chinese military officer at the time of the last Tungan rising had tried
to improve communication towards Lop and Charkhlik. This plateau evidently forms part of
a much-decayed range striking towards the south-east, of which the continuation is marked by the
triangulated heights of Kök-tāgh and Yārdang-bulak-tāgh. It forms the southern rim of the
Nanchan-bulak depression and the local watershed towards the Lop basin, all beds met beyond
the Kak-su-dawān draining into the Kuruk-daryā. Thence a dreary march of close on ten miles
across a bare stony Sai brought us to where flood-beds descending from the eastern end of the
Shindī-tāgh contract between rocky ledges. Springs rising here form a small stream (Fig. 339),
which under the protection of a covering ice sheet extended at the time over a distance of about
half a mile, passing the ruined station of Toghrak-bulak. There we halted. A few wild poplars
rising amidst an adjoining patch of reed-beds account for its name. The aneroid indicated here
an approximate height of 3,600 feet.
March past
Jigda-
bulak. On March 3rd we turned off to the south-east in the direction of the Yārdang-bulak spring.
The march was long but offered little of interest, lying most of the way along the wide stony glacis
that descends from the Kök-tāgh chain of hills. After crossing for about four miles ground
intersected by low decomposed ridges we came suddenly in a hollow upon abundant reed-beds,
thriving by the moisture that a spring of fresh water, known as Jigda-bulak, supplies. The lower
and larger stretch of this excellent grazing was found to extend over an area of about a mile in
length and a quarter of a mile in width. From here the low line of the Charchak hills overlooking
the Kuruk-daryā (Map No. 29. A. 3) was first sighted. The rest of the march led over a stony Sai.
For about three miles beyond Jigda-bulak it showed here and there scanty scrub of the kind known
as Chikanda, which alone seems capable of finding nourishment on the driest ground, as previously
noticed, for instance, near Āltmish-bulak. Wind action, of a kind with which the tamarisk-cones
of the deserts in the Tārim basin and beyond had made me familiar, was here illustrated by regular
cones of sand which had formed round each of these Chikanda bushes and rose to heights from
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