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CHAPTER I.
THROUGH THE KARA-KORUM VALLEYS.
In Vol. II, I have described my journeys around and across the Manasarovar
and Rakas-tal Lakes and those to the sources of the three famous rivers, the Brahma-
putra, the Satlej and the Indus, as well as my journey in the valley of the upper
course of the first-mentioned, the Tsangpo. In Vol. III, I have given a description
of my eight crossings of the Transhimalayan mountain system and of my researches
in the region of the Central Lakes, situated just north of the Transhimalaya. It now
remains to give a short narrative of the observations undertaken during my two
crossings of Northern and Central Tibet, the first in 1906 and the second in 1908.
Having thus finished the description of the whole journey from the point of view
of physical geography, I will try to give a résumé of the orographical, morpho-
logical, hypsometrical and hydrographical observations as compared with my earlier
results and those of other travellers. These conclusions will be found at the end
of Vol. VII which deals chiefly with the discoveries in the Kara-korum Moun-
tains. This gigantic system which from a point of view of genetic orography may
be called the backbone of High Asia, is to a very great extent touched by the two
crossings described in Vol. IV. In the résumé at the end of Vol. VII, I will attempt
to analyze, if and how far the orographical boundaries of the Kara-korum System
may be fixed with the assistance of the store of knowledge we possess at the
present day.
The practical arrangements of this journey, as, for instance, the number of
servants and animals in my caravan, the equipment, the instruments, etc. having been
dealt with in my personal narrative, I leave them alone in this connection, and only
direct my attention to the journey itself and to the geography of the traversed
country. The first days' marches I have described elsewhere. Be it sufficient here
to say that we left Leh on August 14th, 1906, and travelled viâ Tikse, Chimre, Singrul,
Sultak, and Drugub to Tankse, a village which I reached on August 19th, and
which is the first place entered on my map in 1:300 000, Pl. I. Here, according
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