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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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were gathered, in preparation for our plunge into the mountains.
We were now among the outlying spurs of the great barrier
which divides the plains of India from those of Turkestan.
Of this barrier the nearest range is called the Kuen-lun, the
centre the Mustagh or Karakoram, and the furthest the
Himalayas.
On leaving Kugiar we headed directly into these moun-
tains, and were fairly launched on our voyage of exploration,
though the first three marches had been traversed by members
of the Forsyth Mission. We crossed an easy pass named
the Tupa Dawan, and then ascended a valley in which were a
few huts and some felt tents belonging to a race called Pakhpu,
whom Dr. Bellew, the skilled ethnologist who accompanied
the Forsyth Mission, considered to be of a pure Aryan stock.
They were very fair, and their features fine and regular.
Leaving this valley, I crossed the Chiraghsaldi Pass, over
the main ridge of the Kuen-lun Mountains. The only aneroid
I had was unfortunately not made to register up to such
heights as the pass, but I computed its height at about sixteen
thousand feet. We were now getting into the heart of our
work, and as I looked out from the summit of that pass on to
the labyrinth of pathless mountains, rising into tier after tier
of snowy peaks, I felt that there was some real stern work
before us, and that each one of our little party would have
to brace himself up to do his very best if we wished to
accomplish the task that had been set us. There were now
no paths and no inhabitants. We were alone among the
mountains, and it was not only the difficulties which they
might present that we had to contend against; we also had
to be ever-watchful against an attack from the Kanjuti robbers,
who had for many years infested these parts, issuing from their
strongholds in Hunza, and raiding on caravans trading between
Yarkand and Leh by the Karakoram route, and even levying
blackmail from villages in the Kugiar district. Three of the
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