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0282 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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respect. Wheeled vehicles would demand a vast
expenditure—probably an impossible sum—for so
poor a country as Tibet, having such long lines,
such rough conditions. Until the wagon road is
justified, pack-trails remain everywhere just good
enough to permit passage, and are an abiding marvel
to European travellers.

Several continuous tracks may be followed from
Lhasa to China; the route followed by the English
expedition from Darjeeling is the shortest line con-
necting Lhasa with the civilised world; a long,
difficult line leads to the far west of Tibet and to
Ladak, now belonging to Kashmir; branching to
the south from this east-and-west trail are several
possible routes leading into Nepal. To the north
there are no recognised lines save well to the east,
going up to the Kokonor region, and, farther west,
a pilgrim route for Mongolians coming to their Holy
City. The main streams of commerce flow to and
fro 'twixt China and Tibet.

The burly yak demands as little in the way of
footing and of food as any self-respecting beast
could ask, yet even he must pant and strain and die
in the hard scramble over glacier and stone that
mark the long leagues to China. Slower than the
horse, the yak is also surer-footed and less easily
frozen to death. He makes up into an irregular
jumbled caravan, never learning the strict discipline
of single-file march, which ponies are taught to pre-
fer, and which camels seem to have learned in an
earlier incarnation. It is this impassive, dignified
brute, the camel, who has so powerfully affected
the imaginations and thus falsified the calculations