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0515	Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2

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Camp 189 is called Dongbo; to the N.E., at one or two miles distance is a
region called Tutu. Some 10 minutes walk S.80°W. of Camp 189 one has a fine
view over the long and shallow lake from which the water spreads to the different
passages; in its background was a high sand dune or ridge of several dunes.

Proceeding north-westwards we have to the left for some time a confusion of
dunes, lakes and canals, and to our right the hills called Tinju, the last ramifications
of the Transhimalaya; at their foot are also considerable accumulations of sand in
dunes, often 6 or 8m. high. The ground itself is very sandy, and the wind has
modelled out ridges, furrows and sharp terraces of sand, kept together by grass
roots. In other respects the ground is fluviatile clay.

Ganju-la is a little threshold crossed by the road, and only 4,618m. high;¹
the rock is sandstone and tight quartzitic mass. A second, still lower threshold is
crossed; to our right is a valley Pundi; the plain below is called Pundi-shung. Near
the road is a solitary dune, very regularly built, and quite 15m. high; the dunes of
this type, and out of reach of the river, are, of course, wandering as ordinary desert
dunes. Ganju-gompa is built on a little isolated rock of limestone, rising from the
level plain. On nearly all sides it is surrounded by swamps and pools; at some
distance south of the monastery one sees the irregular waterways amongst the dunes.
On the bank were several tents and flocks.

Kajan-sumdo is a valley from the north. Pukchen-tang is a nomadic camp
near a swamp. To the S.W. a branch of the river shows between the dunes, five
of which had a very regular form, perfect crescents with 17° slope on the windward
and 33 and 34° on the lee-side; 10 and 12m. high dunes are not rare. Even the
natives had observed how the dunes wander to the E.N.E., and in fact the lee-side
generally looks N.80°E. At Tuksum we are at 4,596m. (15,075 feet).

From the surroundings of Tuksum the following names may be mentioned.
S.64°E. Mount Ngotu; S.S.E. Mount Kolla; S.7°E. a snowy peak Inang, near which
a road goes to Nepal over Inang-la; S.17°W. Gänsung a double peak without snow;
S.39°W. Pajung-hangmo a sharp snowy peak, and S.60°W. another, near which
there is a difficult path to Nepal; S.65°W. Mount Rongle; S.68°W. a small mountain
Langjü; N.71°W. the depression of the Tsangpo valley; N.54°W. Tang-yung and
just right of it the valley of Näoo-tsangpo; N.30°W. the valley of Tsagong-sang,
and, to the left of it, Mount Mondo; to the north is Mount Teriyong near Tuksum;
N.E. the valley Dogmo-sang, and N.69°E. Mount Rinak.

Keeping south of the tasam our next day's march goes west to the Tsangpo
over the great level plain with its beds, dry or containing pools, its tents and

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