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surprising, magnificent. The western mountain wall is in two stories with a terrace
platform between. Sometimes narrow, deep-cut side valleys open out to the main
valley and have tremendous screes at their mouths. The left mountain wall is
uninterrupted and has gigantic screes at its base. Sometimes vertical black bands
are seen along the cliffs as if ink had been streaming there; they are the steep
furrows of rainwater.
A little higher up, the rocks at the left or eastern side of the valley assume
curious forms, reminding one of frozen cascades and waterfalls. Here the rock seems
to be granite, for there is no stratification. The valley becomes narrow; blocks are
abundant. At both sides jets of water from melting snow come down, the one to
our right certainly 250 m. high; it is pulverized in the wind, forming a white veil,
but the water again joins partly to form a jet reaching the bottom of the valley.
All around the rocks are dark from the continuous spray.
A short distance N. E. of *Nyandî* the *Kailas* becomes hidden by nearer
cliffs. Then it appears again like on the sketch, p. 212 (to the right in the
upper row), Vol. II. The side valleys more and more assume the form of regular
cañons. This is the most picturesque and fascinating region I have ever seen
in Tibet. A natural stone-bridge is seen across a gorge with perpendicular sides,
some 50 m. above its bottom. The road is very bad, covered as it is with
gravel falling down from the mountains every year. In a new opening between
the rocks, the *Kailas* is again visible, less imposing in this foreshortened per-
spective. Its vertical sides below the peak are striped black and white, rock and
snow alternating.
Before reaching the junction with the tributaries *Chamo-lung-chu* or *Chamo-
lungchen* coming in from the N. 70° W., we behold to the S. 50° W. a very
considerable and picturesque snow-covered peak. In the background of the last-
mentioned tributary, snow-covered mountains are also seen. They must be the same
as those visible on several of my panoramas, for instance, the coloured one p. 153,
Vol. II, and the coloured view in this chapter.
The next valley, from N. 5° W., is called *Dunglung* and the junction of the
three valleys, *Dunglung-do*. Here two tents were pitched, and nomads were herding
their flocks of sheep. Seen from this side, the *Kailas* resembles a tetrahedron on
the top of a socle with very steep sides, *cp.* Pan. 319, Tab. 57. Pan. 317, Tab. 57,
is taken some distance higher up the valley, always showing the tetrahedron; this
form appears in a still higher degree from the S. 34° W., as on the frontispiece in
Vol. I. Small bridges are built across the two tributaries. Yaks and sheep are
grazing in the valley, which here is broader than before.
Then the peak again disappears for a while, hidden by wild rocks in front
of it. There are masses of granite blocks, but no more cañons. The surfaces are
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