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CHAPTER XXIV.
FROM MANASAROVAR TO THE SHIB RIVER.
In Vol. III of my personal narrative, »Transhimalaya», I have given a de-
scription of the last section of my journey in Tibet, from Camp CCCCLI to
Camp CCCCLXXXV, in and along the valley of the Satlej, from Tokchen to Poo,
the first station in British India I reached. This description, however, chiefly deals
with my personal experiences and adventures as well as with the monasteries along
the road. A number of photographs and sketches illustrate it, to which I refer.
There now remains only to give a short report of the chief geographical features
of the same road, a report which properly will have to be regarded as an explana-
tory text accompanying the last part of Pl. 24 and the whole of Pl. 25 and 26 of my
map. This text is at the same time, a direct continuation from the chapter on my
sixth crossing of the Transhimalaya, Vol. III, p. 324 et seq. of the present work. The
first stages of this section of the journey, took me along the shores of the Manasa-
rovar and Rakas-tal Lakes, and will, therefore, be particularly briefly described, as
all my observations on and around the lakes have already been entered in Vol. II
of the present work. The same may be said regarding the old bed of the Satlej
and the relation of this river to the Rakas-tal. This problem has been dealt with
in Vol. II, p. 169.
At Tokchen on the Samo-tsangpo, we were at a height of 4,634 m. and
travelled down the river, July 24th, 1908, to the mouth of the valley where the
last good grass was growing and the height was 4,611 m. The minimum tempe-
ratures of the nights, were now always above the freezing point with only one or
two exceptions. The meteorological observations will be found in Vol. VI. of this work.
The next day's march took us down to the northern shore of Manasarovar,
the even plain of the shore being bounded by a terrace of gravel. On the plain
the grass was very good and thick. Here the oblong lagoon, which some Tibetans
called Ting-tso, is to the right of our course and is in connection with swamps. It
had now changed its outlines since 1907 and contained more water. The brooks,
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