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0548 Southern Tibet : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / Page 548 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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CHAPTER XLI.

DUTREUIL DE RHINS AND F. GRENARD.

The important exploration of PIEVTSOFF, together with BOGDANOVITCH, ROBO-
ROVSKIY and KOSLOFF, carried out in 1889—91, belongs to the largest extent to
Eastern Turkestan and the northern regions of the Kwen-lun, and does not touch
the regions of Tibet in which my last exploration falls and to which I have limited
this history of Tibetan exploration. Be it sufficient to say that general Pievtsoff
was a worthy successor of the great PRSHEVALSKIY.

DUTREUIL DE RHINS, on the other hand, crossed our mountain systems be-
longing to the Kara-korum, twice. In 1891 he had reconnoitred the district south
of Pulur and in August of the following year he set out across the mountains. Together
with FERNAND GRENARD he reached the foot of the immense and magnificent glaciers
from which the Keriya-darya takes its source. By a pass 5,550 meters high they
crossed the range of the Kwen-lun which they call Ustun-tagh »The upper mountain»,
which was now for the first time traversed by travellers from the north. From the
other side the water does not flow to Eastern Turkestan. Great difficulties forced
the travellers to turn to the S. W. in the direction of inhabited country.

To the lake Sumji-tso they followed nearly the same road which had been
taken by Carey in the opposite direction. On ne voyait rien qu'une succession de
collines ternes, parfois blanchies de neige, se trainant tristes et basses comme lasses
d'être montées si haut.¹

August 25th they reached the Yeshil-köl. Grenard says this lake is two days
from the source of Keriya-darya. From Yeshil-köl they followed a series of long
valleys between mountain ranges south of which appeared the peaks of gangris
belonging to a third range nearly parallel with the Ustun-tagh and Altyn-tagh.

Having passed the Tashlik-köl and Sumji-tso they met, September 4th, the first
Tibetan. He belonged to a camp situated amongst snowy mountains. Ce lieu