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0207	Southern Tibet : vol.4

from porous ice, light green where the ice was solid, and violet and red near the
shore from the colour of blocks and gravel on its bottom. Fresh water springs
come forth at the shore. The lake seems to be shallow.
Beyond a projecting rock the view becomes more open to the south, where
the mountain range, which we had to cross the next day, is rising. From here a
panorama was sketched, showing the basin of Lashung-tso from N. E. to S. S. E.
(Pan. 65, Tab. 10). Between the eastern mountains and the lake there seems to be
a belt of flat level ground which becomes broader to the S. W. of the lake. Finally
we go down from the gravelly slopes, the ground becomes more flat and the gravel
more sparse, the lake is left behind and the distance to the western mountains in-
creases. The erosion beds become broader and more shallow. The ground again
slowly rises in the direction of the southern range. To the east this is bordered
by rather low hills, red as is nearly everything in this region. They are rounded
and chiefly consist of loose material, out of which, here and there, a little peak of
solid rock rises; one of these had, from a distance, exactly the appearance of a
gompa. Near the eastern shore of the lake a herd of some 50 yaks was seen. A
flock of 20 antelopes crossed our route in the direction of the lake. We keep to
the S. W. The ground is hard and comfortable, there is grass as usual. Camp LVI
was pitched at the bank of a watercourse containing ice and a little brook. Just
west of this camp yaks were grazing. We had obviously reached a region where
these animals pass the winter. We had also reached the parts of Tibet where mar-
mots are living; four of their holes had been seen on this day and two on the
day before.
Pan. 66, Tab. 10, gives a very good idea of the lake basin of Lashung-tso
and the mountains surrounding it on all sides, except the southern. The whole
group to the west of the lake is readily visible with its steep slope down to the
lake. To the east there is a system of more moderate hills.
On November 8th we proceeded 13 km. S. S. E. and S. E., crossing the southern
range in a flat pass of 5,161 m. height. The rise is, therefore, 145 m. in a distance
of 8.5 km., giving a rate of 1:59. On the southern side we have 4.5 km. to Camp LVII
with an altitude of 4,994 m., or a fall of 167 m., which is as 1:27.
We have lost sight of the Tibetan road and ascend on hills and slopes and cross two
dry watercourses bound to Lashung-tso; here the rock was grey limestone with veins of
calcspar. In several small valleys there are ice-sheets; grass is abundant and so is
yak dung. Approaching the pass in its valley we have a comparatively bulky mount
to our right, from which watercourses go down both to the north and the south of
the pass. A fireplace was seen in the valley. The pass is flat and easy. A new
landscape opens up from it and the region we have just crossed becomes hidden.
In front of us to the south there is a mountain range of moderate size and beyond

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