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0092 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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fall and dried for the sheep and goats. Long ago, a van-
ished glacier ground its way slowly down from the moun-
tains, cutting off projecting spurs, smoothing and broaden-
ing the valley-floor, steepening the walls, and changing the
valley from a gorge with a V-shaped cross-section to a typi-
cal glacial trough, U-shaped, with well-marked shoulders at
the top of the U.

A few miles farther downstream, at the point where the
old glacier came to an end, the trough changed suddenly
to a gorge, and we found that our U became a V. The road
ceased to follow the broad valley-floor near the river, for
there was no room beside the water. The stream flowed be-
tween the steep cliffs of narrow terraces of gravel, like those
of Kashmir, which filled the bottom of the V. Along these
we made our way, finding the path level and easy except
where it crossed the narrow gullies of frequent tributary
torrents. At Karbu we found the terraces pitted with numer-
ous tunnels, dug for gold which is contained in the gravel.
There we met an English engineer prospecting for a mining
company. He was disgusted with the meagre quantity of
gold; it was not worth looking at, he said. He had found
just one thing that interested him — a fragment of good gold
ore said to have come from a mine near Lhassa owned by
Buddhist lamas. The engineer was going home to tell his
company that Tibet was the place to hunt for gold.

The terraces furnish not only the one source of mineral
wealth in this poor region, but the only level land avail-
able for agriculture. Though they are extremely narrow
and rocky, fields and hamlets are located upon them wher-
ever water is available for irrigation. The difficulty expe-