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0648 Southern Tibet : vol.4
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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island *Lache-to*. To the N. 44° E. is the *Pundi*. A sketch of the *Gurla-mandata* was drawn from the S. E. shore of the island *Lache-to*, Pan. 312, Tab. 57.

Pan. 308, Tab. 56, is drawn from a point between *Camp CCXXVII* and *Camp CCXXVIII*, showing the same lake in another perspective. From N. 47° W. to N. 15° W. the island *Dopserma* seems to be situated, though it was always difficult to determine its outlines from those of the hills behind. Here the *Kailas* rises to the N. 6° E., just in the prolongation of the »neck of the bottle». *Lache-to* is visible to the N. 45°—54° E. and N. 59° E. is the projecting cape south of it. Pan. 313, Tab. 57, is a little sketch to the E. S. E. from *Camp CCXXVIII*.

According to my observations, *Khaleb*, *Camp CCXXX*, has an absolute height of 4,629 m., and is 14.2 km. from the northern shore of the *Rakas-tal*. The rise is, therefore, 40 m. or as 1:355, which proves how very flat the plain is north of the lake. *Parka* is at an altitude of 4,601 m. and 5.7 km. from the lake. The rise is here 12 m. or as 1:475.

From *Khaleb*, Pan. 315A and B, Tab. 57, was drawn, showing the range of which *Kailas* is the culminating point. The *Sacred Mount* is seen to the N. 34° E., and the sketch should be compared with the frontispiece photograph of Vol. I, p. XVIII. To the S. 79° E. is the *Pundi*, which indeed seems to belong to the same range as the *Kailas*. S. 17° E. and S. 11° E. are the two highest peaks of the *Gurla-mandata*. Nothing is seen of the lake.

Finally I have only to call attention to the two panoramas, 310 and 311, Tab. 56, the first being a view down and south-westwards in the valley of the old *Satlej*, and the second a view to the east in the old bed of the river. Both are taken from the termination of the excursion from *Khaleb*, *September 6th*, 1907.