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0212 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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side. Not a tree was in sight. There was a delightful sense
of freedom and exhilaration which was accentuated by the
rare purity of the air and the glorious view of the magnifi-
cent mountains surrounding Pisha on every side.

Every sharp peak, gleaming crest, and blue-shadowed
glacier of the snowy Kwen Lun range to the south stood out
with cameo distinctness, though the mountains, from 20,000
to 24,000 feet high, were twenty-five or thirty miles away.
Westward I looked down 7000 feet over grandly buttressed
walls of naked rock into the unknown canyon of the Yu-
rungkash River, narrower and deeper than the famous can-
yon of the Colorado. It separated the west side of the Pisha
basin abruptly from a veritable maze of deeply gashed,
naked mountains, the remnants of a dissected plateau. To
the north, an opening in the mountains disclosed the yellow
line of haze above the sandy desert sixty miles away, near
Khotan; while to the northeast, the huge flat-topped bulk of
the isolated Tikelik plateau, 19,000 feet high, obscured the
view of the basin floor. Still farther around to the right, fair,
green pasture slopes, the gift of the loess, fell off, at what
seemed by comparison a gentle grade, to the half-naked
red and brown outcropping rocks of the centre of the Pisha
basin at a height of 9000 feet, and then, twenty-five miles
away, rose again to 16,000 feet in the rounded peak of Khan
Ileseh, connecting the outlying plateau of Tikelik with the
main range of Kwen Lun. During the morning, every de-
tail of the magnificent view was clearly visible. At noon,
however, when a strong south wind gave place to the usual
afternoon breeze from the north, a change took place, and
the process of the deposition of loess was vividly illustrated.