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0495	Southern Tibet : vol.4
南チベット : vol.4

would be the vicinity to the lake. The nomads here pronounced the name of the
great snow group, Sha-kangsham. A water colour view of it is shown on an accom-
panying page.

On March 22nd, we travelled 8 km. S. S. E., rising from 4,882 m. to 5,029 m.
or 147 m., being at a rate of 1:54. The minimum temperature of the night was
—15.1°. The weather was favourable. We travelled across even, hard ground leaving
to our left, the little isolated hill at which we had camped. Here a woman was
watching sheep and 11 yaks. Now, to the E. N. E., the prolongation of the latitudinal
valley opens up, and in it extensive ice-sheets are seen, obviously the Kangsham-
tsangpo, which, therefore, seems to pierce through the range we had passed last. To
our right is a mountain with a very sharp edge, visible on Pan. 440, and situated
at the left side of the entrance of the valley we had to follow to Chaklam-la. We
follow along the base of these hills across gravelly, disagreeable ground.

Camp CCCLXI was pitched at a spring with fresh, open water forming ice-
sheets. From here, Sha-kangsham was mostly or largely hidden by nearer ridges
and the rest of it also disappeared in thick clouds. The inhabitants of a tent close
by, said the region was called Amchen and the pass in front of us, Amchen-la or
Chaklam-la. The river south of it, they called Sangchen-di-chu. The next five days
before us, were said to be difficult as we had to cross several passes. The
nomads here had only some 80 or 90 sheep, but the inhabitants of two tents to the
S. E., possessed 800. Two men, two women and a child were living in these tents.
The party had arrived from the south a short time ago. The governor, Karma
Puntso, was said to live in a region to the west called Pombok. To Kirong, they
reckoned 40 or 50 days via Samokul. Chokchu could be reached in 8 days east-
wards. The governor was a certain Ganchen Sonam Dorche, though the man I met
in Selipuk later on and who presented himself as governor of Chokchu had the
name, Sonam Ngurbu. Tsongpun Tashi was said to be a great merchant from Lhasa,
dwelling 7 days south on the Serpun lam or gold-chief's road, which is, therefore,
far to the south of my road of 1901. Ten days south of his residence, we would find
8 or 9 tents in a region called Sherma-denang. Continuing south we would have
5 or 6 days to Kemar-denang. Thence 5 days to a pass called Pota-la; thence
3 or 4 days to the pass Samyas-la; thence 2 days to Rukyok, and thence 4 days
to Saka-dsong. Nearly all this information was correct.

At Camp CCCLXI, the living rock consisted of grey, dense limestone which
prevails in the whole region. From this camp, Pan. 442, Tab. 81, was drawn, embracing
so much of the landscape as could be seen, for the rest was hidden by the hills at
the base of which we camped. To the N. E. it allows a peep into the latitudinal
valley in which the Kangsham-tsangpo flows. The greater part of the Sha-kangsham
is hidden by different ridges and hills, but its highest peak is seen to the S. 81° E.

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