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Southern Tibet : vol.4 |
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find a *mani-rigmo* here, far away in the wilderness; usually, as for instance in the
valleys of the *Transhimalaya,* they indicate the approach to a *gompa* or some other
sacred place.
Continuing S. E. at a distance of one or one and a half kilometer from the
shore, we slowly descend, crossing some erosion beds to a comparatively large valley
with a larger bed which is always dry. The mountains at its southern side send
out a little promontory into the lake. At the shore we again see the curiously
modelled formations of white deposits of salt and gypsum. Here and there small
open pools of water are seen. Just outside the promontory a tepid spring comes
up, forming a strip of open, bitterly salt water in the middle of the white deposits.
My men said that a little distance from the shore the bed was covered with ice,
though I am not sure that it was not all white dry deposits. On the northern
slopes of the hills at the southern side of the valley, four distinct terraces were seen,
the lowest at about 20 m. above the lake and all at short intervals from one another.
The limestone rocks of the place are wild and steep. We crossed them in a low
threshold and after passing a transverse valley from the S. 80° W., we had to climb
a second, somewhat higher range or ramification, parallel to the first one. This
second range also ends with a promontory into the lake, at the base of which, there
is also open water. The living rock is everywhere a grey, dense limestone. After
crossing a new transverse valley from S. 80° W., the road crossed a third very low
threshold of wild rugged cliffs. On these small passes, cairns were built; also three
stone pyramids on the one in the middle. The ground is full of gravel. Our direction
finally becomes south, between the base of the mountains and the white shore. The
southern part of the lake bed is modelled in the most curious way in pyramids,
tables, walls, cones and different extraordinary formations with deep furrows between,
which all is a work of the winds. Farther out in the bed, one had really the im-
pression of seeing ice. Fresh water could be obtained from several springs. As
we had no guides now, I could not determine the name of this interesting place,
but it corresponds in every detail with the description I had received from our last
Tibetans when they spoke of *Rinek-chutsan* or »The hot water of the black moun-
tain», so I have entered this name on Pl. 5.¹
At *Camp LXXI* we were at the lowest point we had passed ever since
*Gogra,* on August 28th, or nearly three months before. The height was only 4,706 m.,
which also signifies the height of the lake. We had obviously left the highest pro-
tuberance of the plateau-land behind, and had arrived at regions some 200 or 300 m.
lower than the altitudes we were accustomed to. Pan. 78A and 78B, Tab. 12, gives
a general aspect of the limestone mountains to the west, N. W., north and N. E.
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