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0056 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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dollars and twenty cents) per month. Other expenses were
correspondingly low, even though Subhana considered it
necessary for his two "Sahibs" to have five or six pounds
of "soup-meat" a day and other articles in correspond-
ing amounts. There always seemed to be great quantities
to "throw away," as Subhana carefully phrased it, when
he carried things off to the crowded kitchen-boat. Never-
theless, our seventeen days in a house-boat proved economi-
cal. They also, I regret to say, proved cold and uncom-
fortable, because of the time of the year.
We had come to Kashmir from Bombay. On leaving
the railroad at Rawal Pindi in northern India, our plan
was to cross the Himalaya mountains to the vicinity of
Lake Pangong, three hundred miles to the east, at the ex-
treme western end of Tibet. There we proposed to turn
to the north, and traverse the lofty western extension of
the Tibetan plateau to the Kwen Lun mountains, a hun-
dred miles away on its northern edge. If we could cross a
favorably located pass over the mountains, a further march
of seventy-five miles as the crow flies would bring us to the
Chanto oasis of Khotan in Chinese Turkestan, where the
most important part of our work would begin. We followed
this plan as closely as the circumstances would permit, but
the exigencies of travel, combined with the demands of
geographic investigation, caused us to journey twice as far
as the distances specified above. The main features of our
route appear on the map at the end of this volume. Leaving
Rawal Pindi March 13, 1905, we reached Srinagar March
21, and remained there till April 4, when we started for
Leh, the capital of Ladakh, where we arrived April 24.