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0562	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0562

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

In Tsaidam the pilgrims gather together in great parties, hire camels, and
start in June through the »khoshun» of the Taitshinar to Lhasa, on the same road
that was chosen by N. M. PRSHEVALSKIY. In Nakchu they change their camels
for yaks, as the further road to Lhasa is not practicable for camels. This information
is nearly the only place in this report from which one may get an idea of the
general morphological character of the country. The Olots and Torguts from Ili
and Yuldus travel more seldom to Lhasa. They follow the southern slopes of
Eastern Tian-shan to Hami, from where they cross the Gobi to Sa-cheo, and
further via Sirting and Kurlik, reach the »koshun» of the Taichinars. This road
is more comfortable than the one taken by the Khalkhas, as there is more pasture
for the camels.

In 1899 G. Ts. TSIYBIKOFF (or Zybikoff) started on a journey to Lhasa, equipped
and prepared by the Russian Geographical Society. He begins telling us that he will
not say anything of his journey through Amdo, thus omitting the part most interesting
to us from geographical point of view.¹ He travelled with a caravan of pilgrims.
After 22 days through the »uninhabited north-Tibetan plateauland», they camped
at the river of San-chu at the northern foot of the Bumsa Pass, from the neighbour-
hood of which PRSHEVALSKIY had returned on his third expedition.

The caravan, which had started from Kumbum April 24th 1900, consisted of
about 70 men, nearly all Amdo and Mongol lamas with 17 tents. Their 200 horses
were from Amdo. — From Bumsa they travelled in four days to Nakchu-gompa.
During the rainy season the river cannot be crossed.

Three rather long marches took the caravan over the watershed between Nak-
chu and Ui-chu, and a vast plain called Sun-shan, at the western side of which
the mountains of Samtan-Kansar are to be seen. From there the road continues
across Chor-la to the Dam valley, inhabited by the descendants of the Mongols,
who, in the middle of the seventeenth century, were brought to Tibet by the Khoshot
Gushi Khan.

From Kumbum to Lhasa they were three months on the road.

Speaking of the Snow Land of the Tibetans he adds: »Indeed, in the region
through which we travelled, we saw two snowy mountains, Samtan-Kansar at the
eastern end of the Nian-chen-tang-la Range and the Range Kar-la at the S. W. side
of the ringshaped lake Jamdok.» This cannot be correct as the Tang-la System
has both snowy peaks and glaciers, described by other travellers, among them Count
DE LESDAIN (see below).

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