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0578	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

some of those who have faced this inhospitable country. From the time when Dr. Thomson,
the associate of Cunningham and Henry Strachey in the Ladak boundary commission of
1847, first surmounted the Karakoram range, and that of the Schlagintweits, this wild
region has always exercised a fascination peculiar to itself. ¹

Of the region near Lanak-la he says:
Common to both sides of the border are the high plateaux, whose surrounding ranges
reach over 17,000 feet . . . . There are also many ancient lakebeds plainly marked, where
the evidence of previous glacial action may usually be traced.

And further:
For two days previous to entering the Baba Hatun valley, our way had lain over
perhaps the worst ground we had to cross in Tibet. West of the valley we were following
ran a magnificent range of eternally snowclad mountains, whose highest peaks, which
later form one boundary of the Baba Hatun valley, reach over 21,000 feet. Such a land-
mark do these form that, though no new discovery was involved, we felt that as a geo-
graphical feature they ought to carry a separate name. We therefore took the liberty of
giving them that of the Curzon range. Opposite to this latter, on the N. E. side of the
same valley, stands a wonderful group of rugged peaks and ridges also covered with eternal
snows. Both offer on either hand as grand and awe-inspiring a view as the human eye
could wish for. We again felt that such a unique mass of peaks deserved recognition and
a separate entity, so took the liberty of giving it the name of the Kitchener Group.

North of the Baba-hatun valley Bruce crossed a pass 17,750 feet high which
he calls Ak-Su-La, a name that cannot be correct as it ought to be Ak-su-davan.
Of the Gugurt plain he says:
This is a wide open expanse, some 18 miles in length from east to west, with a
greatest breadth of 6 to 7 miles from north to south;
and of the eastern portion of the same:
Both hollows and ridges are thickly sown with an outcrop of volcanic-looking black
rock, which makes progress by no means easy.

The salt lake Ullug-kul, so called by DEASY, was at 15,200 feet. Then he
passed Atchik-kul. »All the lakes are either shrinking, which does not appear pro-
bable from the surrounding indications, or at other seasons must be 5 or 6 feet
above their true level.» This refers to the middle of October.

He does not give the name nor the height of the Kwen-lun Pass he used, but
below and on three sides of us, stretching apparently without end, lay the wildest
and most forbidding jumble of mountain ranges, peaks, and gorges imaginable.

And: The main gorge, known to the people of Polu at its northern end as the
Zubéshic (Subashi?) gorge, was more like a gigantic railway cutting winding through
solid rock . . . .

To judge from Bruce's map, he followed the same way as FORSYTH'S PUNDIT.
From Lanak-la he went to Mangtsa-tso at 16,600 feet. At about 35¼° N. lat. and
81¼° East long. he has the »Probable sources of the Khotan R.».

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