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Then the ground is very even and overgrown with some vegetation. Suddenly
one again stands at the edge of a new cañon furrow, sharply marked in the ground
and more than 100 m. deep. Therefore, we have to go down to its bottom, where
the height was 4,369 m. It did not contain any water now. At its left side we
have to ascend exactly as much as we had just descended. On the left edge, there
was again a cairn. Our direction, which hitherto has been W. S. W., now becomes
S. 25° W. on the ridge between the cañon valleys. The top of this ridge forms a
plain which, to the naked eye, seems to be perfectly level, though it falls slowly
towards the valley of the Satlej.

After a march of about 2 km. on this even ridge, we again reach a very
deep and energetically eroded cañon with a considerable river coming from S. 12° W.
and called Shib. It joins another river a little lower down, called Lunak, and coming
from S. W. The joint river, Shib, then goes down through a narrow gorge to the
Satlej, its course being N. W. The Shib valley was here 243 m., cut down, as
at the edge of the plateau at its right side, the height was 4,513 m. and in the
bottom of the valley 4,270 m. The name of the place was said to be Kande. At
a distance of two short marches to the south and S. W., a black mountain range
was visible with some snow peaks of no very great altitude.

Pan. 548, Tab. 105, is a little sketch of the Shib valley to the N. 44° W.
A little below Camp CCCCLXIII, the living rock is black schist; then, along the
Satlej to the beginning of the gorge it is yellow, fine, crystalline limestone alternating
with quartz schist; the same rock prevailed up to the neighbourhood of the first
pass. In the deep valley west of Munto-mangbo-la the living rock is black phyllitic
schist, which then seems to prevail the whole way to the camp.

We were accompanied part of the way by a Tibetan yak caravan loaded with
tea. No other human beings were seen, and of animals, only 12 Ovis ammon.

On August 6th, we proceeded 19.8 km. west, N. W. and north. At Kande
we were at 4,270 m. and at Camp CCCCLXV at 4,396 m. The river Shib, Ship
or Shibe-chu, at the right bank of which we had camped, was now 22 m. broad,
had an average depth of 0.35 m., and an average velocity of 1.5 m. The volume
of water was thus 11.5 cub. m. per second or 12 cub. m. together with a little side
branch. It had not rained the last days, otherwise this river would have been con-
siderable. Then we cross the terrace between the Shib and its left tributary for
which we could not find any name. The terrace corresponds with the lowest or
10 m. terrace we had seen before. On the top of it were a few ruins of houses.
The tributary was crossed after we had come down from the terrace; its dimensions
were: breadth 9 m., its average depth 0.25 m., and its velocity about 1 m., the
volume thus being 2.3 cub. m. per second. Its water was perfectly clear, whilst that
of the Shib was as muddy as in the other tributaries. We had so far measured

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