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0354	Southern Tibet : vol.4
南チベット : vol.4

road used by many travellers, and especially by all the caravans to and from *Ladak*.
From the point where the river again comes out to its narrow passage, which is
·about 8 km. long, the valley of the *Gartang* slowly opens out and becomes broader.
The erosion terraces are always well worked out. Old terraces are often seen at
some distance from the river, rounded by wind and weather and pierced by tribu-
taries. A larger valley from the left in which a road is said to proceed to a pass
called *Laling-gurtsak,* is called *Chumbo*. Near its mouth is a little lake or pool,
called *Chumbo-tso,* where the height is 4,382 m.; it seems to be formed by springs
and it has an affluent in two branches. This part of the extensive valley has the
name *Samda-kong*. The mountains on the left side are now steeper than those on
the right. Two *manis* of stone are passed. A grass steppe with some bushes is
called *Namru,* and *Shinkar* is a large tributary valley from the left with a mighty
dark mass, partly snow-covered, in the background. It is a part of the *Ladak
Range* and has the province of *Chumurti,* on its S. W. side. At the left side of
the *Shinkar* bed, there is a double terrace, at least 50 m. high. The floor of the
main valley is not plane but slightly undulated, the material consisting of pebbles
and shingle, deposited at an early period between the ranges to the right and left.

Here the hot springs, simply called *Chusan,* are passed. The first one comes
directly up from the even ground on the left bank of the river and 2 or 3 m. above
its surface. The ground is white and slightly convex. The next is a basin from the
bottom of which several hot springs are bubbling up, the temperature of the water being
60.5°. Another small spring contains boiling water. The bubbling of the water
here resembled a geyser, for the water gushed up about once a minute and during
the intervals remained more quiet. A similar boiling spring was protected by a
stone wall. From the different springs small canals had been cut in the ground
conducting the water to a basin surrounded with a stone wall and used as a bath,
which is supposed to heal sickness. Another ring-wall serves as a dressing room.
Two or three *manis* with poles and rags indicate a certain religious importance of
the place.

A short distance beyond the hot springs, the second branch from *Chumbo-tso*
joins the *Gartang* and gives it a comparatively large tribute. The *Gartang* River had
carried some ice during the early hours, but at noon the latter had again disappeared.
Finally the road again goes up on the top of the steep terrace where the hard
ground partly consists of gravel and is barren. At *Luma-ngoma,* we have our
*Camp CCLIII* on the narrow steppe along the left side of the river. A little
panorama, 353, Tab. 63, shows the appearance of the valley to the N. W. and
north, the considerable terraces and the decreasing height of this part of the *Trans-
himalaya,* its accentuated sculpture, and the wide fans at the mouths of its trans-
verse valleys.

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