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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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Hayward mistook as belonging to the main Mustagh Range,
but which, in fact, in no way approach to the height and mag-
nificence of these mountains, and really belong to the Aghil
Range, which is separated from the Mustagh Mountains by the
valley of the Oprang River.
The wind was blowing with such violence on the summit
of the pass that I found it impossible, after trying for three-
quarters of an hour, to obtain the height by boiling-point of
the thermometer. It has, however, been fixed by Hayward
at seventeen thousand and ninety-two feet. Descending from
the pass through a narrow rocky gorge, towards evening we
reached the valley of the Yarkand River, and halted at an
open strip of jungle known as Kirghiz Jangal. The valley is
here a mile or more broad ; the bottom is mostly covered with
pebbles, with the stream running in many channels over it.
The mountain-sides are steep, rocky precipices, and no grass
or wood is seen, except at a few spots along the bed of the
river.
On September 5 we made a short march of eleven
miles to Kulanuldi, a camping-ground called by this name on
account of a kulan, or wild ass, having once been found dead
there. The weather at this time was delightful, very clear and
right, neither too hot nor too cold—just perfection for travel-
ling. The route, too, was easy and level, leading down the
broad pebbly bed of the Yarkand River. The snowy peaks
of the Kuenlun Mountains rose up to a height of twenty-one
thousand feet to the north, but the real summit of the Aghil
Range to the south could only be seen occasionally in peeps
up narrow ravines. Far down the valley of the Yarkand River
to the westward could be seen a very prominent knot of peaks,
the height of which was approximately fixed by Hayward at
twenty-three thousand feet.
On the following day we made an early start in order to
make up for our short march the day before and advanced
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