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Southern Tibet : vol.4 |
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To the S. 30° E.—S. 80° E. a range of high, solid mountains now begins to
become visible. From *Camp III* only their highest peaks had been slightly visible,
as is seen on Pan. 14, Tab. 3, to the S. 54° E. They no doubt belong to the water-
parting *Kara-korum*.
We leave the main brook at some distance to the right, and cross a little
tributary brook, which disappears in the reddish brown gravel of the slope before it
reaches the main brook. In the morning it was covered with ice. To our left we
have low irregular hills. The ground consists of fine, red dust, which near *Camp III*
was arranged in square, circular or polygonal figures separated from each other by
belts of gravel up to one decimeter in diameter. These as well as numerous fissures
in the barren dust soil, appeared to be due to the same phenomena of gravity and
pressure in the soil which give rise to mud-flow. Fine gravel up to 1 cm. in dia-
meter and rounded by water, also covered certain parts of the ground. East of
some small hills the ground is covered by innumerable yapkak plants which now
become common the whole way to lake *Aksai-chin*.
The weather in these high regions is strange. At 9 a. m. a rather heavy
snowfall hindered the view all around and made the ground white. It lasted for an
hour and changed the landscape into perfect winter. After another hour there was
no sign of snow left on the ground, which in the very dry air quickly dries up.
The heavens, however, continued to be covered by extremely thick and picturesque
clouds, blue, grey, and nearly black. To the S. E. the *Kara-korum* peaks appeared
again. One would have expected to find their slopes quite white after the fresh
snowfall, but they were as black as before, and the lower edges of the eternal
snow-fields had not noticeably changed their outlines. The wind came from the S. W.
and the cloud masses sailed to the east.
The valley of the brook is wide and open. From the south it receives a little
tributary from a transverse valley on the N. E. side of the *Kara-korum*. There are
no human signs, and no cairns are seen, since we, near *Camp III*, had seen a 3 m.
high wooden pole still standing upright from a cairn, and probably being a mark
of some surveying party. The ground is dry, but very soft, and the track of our
caravan, therefore, visible for long distances. At three places we crossed antelope
tracks, and once saw the animals themselves, the first wild life met with on the
plateau-land.
Having crossed the slightly undulating plain, we entered a series of small hills,
and partly marched on low ridges, from which the view was free both to the north
and south. The living rock was greyish brown, dense limestone as before and
obviously predominating in the region. Far to the north rather considerable mountains
were seen, no doubt belonging to the alpine regions where the *Kara-kash* and
*Yurung-kash* have their sources. The yapkak plants continued during the whole day's
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