Southern Tibet : vol.4 / Page 297 (Color Image)

0297	Southern Tibet : vol.4

narrow and wild, between steep rugged cliffs. At a few places there were springs
with ice and even some running water. The rocks have the usual pink and yellow
colour. At a wide place in the valley, there was a tent. At a broader rocky gate,
which on its western side had a steep, projecting rock, another tent was pitched.
Through this gate our valley goes out into a latitudinal valley stretching to the
S. 77° W., in the background of which are hills of moderate size, and at a still
greater distance, the snow-covered peaks we had seen before. Our road follows the
latitudinal valley to the E. S. E., proving that it is not running quite east and west,
but rounded and turning its convexity to the north. To our left, is a series of
small irregular peaks. To the south, is a high range covered with fresh snow.
In the valley is a dry watercourse, which seemed to fall to the east. Probably
there is a threshold farther west, from which the slope goes to the Tang-yung-tsaka.
Camp LXXXIX was placed at the eastern side of a little isolated ridge in the valley.
Our neighbours, in two tents, gave us a few names of the region. The first
rocky gate east of Pike-la was called Ngosang, which also belongs to a part of the
valley. Tarak and Sing were parts of the extensive latitudinal valley; Poro-nakpo
is a peak to the south of Camp LXXXIX. Tarmartse-tso is a little lake just S. E.
of the same camp, fed by springs, which also form enormous ice-sheets in the valley;
probably not much is left of the lake during the summer. Ngoyung is a little tri-
butary valley from the south. Dova or Tova is a peak, to the east of the upper
part of the same valley. Sabyor are the mountains N. E. of the camp. Lungchung
is the place where the two Tibetan tents stood, just west of our camp. The Tibetans
reckoned a two days' march to the frontier of the Naktsang Province. From
Camp LXXXIX, Pan. 102A and 102B, Tab. 18¹, is sketched showing some of the
last-mentioned peaks and groups, and to the E. S. E., the continuation of the lati-
tudinal valley in which we marched the next day.
On December 17th we proceed E. S. E. through the latitudinal valley for 9.7 km.,
descending 108 m. or to 4,759 m. at Camp XC, which means at a rate of 1:90.
Leaving the camp, we follow the northern shore of the little lake for a while. It
forms an isolated basin. Though there was a valley to the N. N. W. from our camp,
the Tibetans asserted that no water passed through it to the Bogtsang-tsangpo.
The latitudinal valley is very regular and runs straight to the east. It is bounded
by parallel ranges to the north and south. The stretching from east to west is
clearly prevalent in this part of Tibet. We follow the base of the northern range
which has the same character as all other limestone mountains in this region, being
wild and rugged and of a reddish colour. The range itself, as well as its transverse

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