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0507	Southern Tibet : vol.4
南チベット : vol.4

lake has a brackish taste, as has also the pool, though several of the springs are
fresh. After a few kilometers, we cross an old beach-line and go up on the top of
a terrace consisting of hard, fine gravel, below which the clay ground continues.
West of our route, is a range with ramifications and valleys; from one of the latter
a little brook comes down; on its bank is a tent. Along the shore, there are several
springs forming small pools surrounded with grass. The greater part of the lake
was frozen. In the background of a new valley from the west, there is a dominating,
prismatic mountain. Along the base of the hills, the ground is barren, as usual. It
is noteworthy that there is more and better grass in northern Chang-tang than here,
which may to a certain degree, depend upon the consistence of the ground, being
more gravelly in the south.

The water in the next little brook was quite red, probably it came from melting
snow on some slope of red material. The next brook, like the others, entered the
lake which seems to be fed by springs. The even plain along the shore, becomes
broader. Near Camp CCCLXXI, a brook came out from the valley called Sninkuk,
forming an ice-sheet some 300 m. broad in the bed outside the valley. Here two
tents were pitched and flocks of sheep were grazing on the neighbouring slopes.

From Camp CCCLXXI, situated at the mouth of the valley Sninkuk, Pan. 452,
Tab. 85, was sketched. N. 33° E., the red conical hill is visible and to the
N. E. and east, the bulky and dark mountains on the eastern side of the lake.
From our route it is impossible to see how broad the plain is along the eastern
shore of the lake. It has the appearance of being very narrow, which, however,
may be an optical illusion. To the S. 62° E., the country is very flat and open, and
here indeed is a latitudinal valley just north of Karong-tso. In the background of
this valley we had seen, from a point just north of the camp, a range which might
be the E. S. E. continuation of the one with the pass of Nima-lung-la. North of
this latitudinal valley, there is, to the S. 84° E., a culminating peak. S. 35° E. is a
conical peak, not very high, but dominating, as it is surrounded by comparatively
low ridges. Of the depression of Karong-tso, nothing could be seen, nor did the
nomads say a word of its existence. It was impossible to get any clear idea of the
country to the south. The southern horizon, however, was barred by a mighty dark
mountain range with some snow. We were approaching the Transhimalaya!

During the last days we had passed many tents and many flocks of sheep,
as well as yaks. When leaving Camp CCCLXX, we had seen on the hillsides to
the east, at least 400 yaks in three flocks. These may perhaps have belonged to
merchants bringing salt from Tabie-tsaka.

At Camp CCCLXXI we have come into connection with my fifth crossing
of the Transhimalaya, the description of which has been given in Vol. III, p. 314 et seq.

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