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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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A Granite Ridge at Kara Kul (showing the secular Deflation of the Pamir). |
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brine, collected from the overflow of large waves, thus extending the white salt
belt 100 feet or more on shore. During summer there are ducks and water-fowl
that feed on the wide-bladed slimy grass growing in shallow water.
On this high desert no man lives, and those who cross by caravan have diffi-
culty in finding fodder and water, as but little grass is found below the water-
courses on high moraines, and even larger streams are dry by day. It is 10 o'clock
at night ere the glacial water melted by day has accumulated and reached the
steppes to run off before sunrise. A few small areas of thin, scattered wire-grass
are found in shallow depressions near the lake, and a scrubby desert weed with
long roots serves for fuel. Otherwise, the plain is void of life in summer. During
winter large herds of Ovis poli, the great-horned wild sheep for which Kara Kul
is famous, descend from their snow-bound mountains, to hunt for these rare bits
of grass. By summer they live with the rabbits and marmots high up under
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