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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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so great an altitude above sea-level, and forming, as they do,
the watershed between India and Turkestan, should have no
signs of snow upon them. The only reason I can think of
to account for it is that behind this range and between it
and the ocean, from which the rain comes, are other far more
lofty mountains which intercept the greater part of the
moisture; and as there are no deep trough-like valleys in
which the little snow that does fall would collect and be
preserved in the form of glaciers, but only wide shallow valleys
where the snow would lie where it fell in a thin coating over
the surface of the mountain, and soon melt under the rays of the
sun, it happens that these mountains, whose summits are as
high as Snowdon placed on the top of Mont Blanc, are in the
summer months as free from snow as our little hills in England.
Descending the northern side of the Karakoram Pass, we
passed the spot where poor Dalgleish had been murdered by
an Afghan in the previous year, and saw the memorial tablet
which had just been placed there by Mr. Dauvergne, Major
Cumberland, and Captain Bower. No more dreary spot could
be imagined; and here, on the dividing-line between India
and Central Asia, in the very core of these lofty mountain
ranges, hundreds of miles away from his nearest fellow-
country men, had fallen the one solitary Englishman who had
tried to make his home in Central Asia. It was sad to think
of such a life being so sacrificed; and that after he had
succeeded, as he had done, in gaining the affections and good-
will of the people of the country in which he had settled, he
should have been treacherously murdered in a fit of fanaticism
or temper by one who was a stranger like himself.
From the Karakoram Pass we traversed a region only less
desolate than that we had passed over on the southern side,
and then, after crossing the Suget Pass, seventeen thousand
six hundred feet high, we descended rapidly to Shahidula,
which we reached on August 21, having in the last six
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