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南チベット : vol.7

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Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

time-signals according to a preconcerted plan. In 17 months the whole program
was carried through, and all that has been done by other travellers and expeditions
in this region, and all that will be done there in the future will have to be corrected
from and built upon the solid ground conquered by the Italian expedition.

Just as Forsyth's mission de Filippi's Expedition was subdivided into a series
of separate undertakings and excursions, e. g. to the valleys of the Sind, Dras and
Indus, the basin of Skardu, the valleys of Shigar, Braldoh and Basha, the valleys of
the Shayok, Saltoro and Kondus and parts of the largest glaciers of the Kara-korum,
the Biafo, the Baltoro and the Chogo-lungma.

At Leh the expedition had its headquarters for two and a half months, and
then crossed the Chang-la and entered the Shayok-valley which was thoroughly in-
vestigated.¹ The Murgo-valley was passed, and the geologists visited the snouts of
the Chong-Kumdan, Kichik-Kumdan, and Aktash Glaciers, but it does not appear
from the report in the Geographical Journal whether the ordinary caravan road was
closed by the glaciers or not. For in 1909, 1910 and 1911 the road was closed
according to news I got from Gulam Rasul of Leh.² Two marches above Murgo
they arrived at a spot called Kisil Langur³, and nearly at the centre of the partly
snow-covered Dapsang plains they made their choice of a new headquarter and
base of supplies which had to serve nearly the whole summer of 1914. In the
following words DE FILIPPI gives a very good description of this dreary region:
»All around us, for a radius of 12 to 15 miles, stretched a vast and hillock-strewn
plateau with shallow depressions inclining to the north-east, and merging to the east
into alluvial plains which form part of the vague watershed between India and Tur-
kestan. The edges of the plateau are uncertain and ill-defined, and shade off gra-
dually into gentle slopes, except towards the south-west, where towers a majestic
glacier-covered mountain which completely dominates the region. In the far distance,
and on every side, rise a circle of lofty mountains, whose peaks just appear above
the edge of the plateau, those to the south and west are dazzlingly white from their
covering of snow and glaciers, and are in startling contrast to those in the direction
of Asia (?) and Central Tibet, which have the forbidding appearance of bare rocks.
The surface of the plateau is a mass of minute detritus, and is entirely devoid of
vegetation, except for occasional patches of a yellowish-green plant which at first
view suggests, more than anything else, some malignant disease of the soil. There

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