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0127	The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1

アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

Jum Yung, the Tibetan, who was in the habit of running
and singing a great deal when he took care of the horses,
"is already out of breath."

When I told Ramazan that the trouble with the air was
not due to poison, but to the height of the pass, he could
not understand how that was possible.

"This pass is not high," he said. "You will see when
we come to it that the climb is short and gentle. Zoji La
[the pass between Kashmir and Ladakh] is much higher,
but there is nothing the matter with the air there."

I explained that we had been climbing gradually for
many days, and were now at a great elevation.

"You have traveled far and read many books," he an-
swered, only half convinced, "and I suppose you know;
but when we have to climb hard to get to a pass, we call it
high, and when the climb is easy, we call it low. So we
think that Zoji La [11,400 feet] is high, and Karakorum
[18,300 feet] low."

At this time, having left the canyon of Shyok and that of
its tributary, the Murgo, we were among the broad open
valleys and gently domed mountains of the central part of
the plateau. Traveling would have been easy, if it had not
been for the great altitude and the almost utter absence of
vegetation. The horses suffered from hunger in spite of
their generous rations of grain. The animals of any caravan
not well equipped with grain become pitiably weak and
die by scores. Along most of the route from Leh to the Sanju
pass, carcases were so abundant that the vicinity of the road
had become the haunt of the dismal carrion-eating crow, or
raven. At least, when we left the road the ill-starred birds

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