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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 |
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a magnificent glacier some ten miles long descending from
an ice-crowned spur to the south.
The descent, difficult throughout and in places impracti-
cable for laden animals, led across a succession of precipitous
spurs on the north close to where small glaciers overhang and
divide them. By the time we had reached easier ground over-
looking the snout of the large glacier I felt duly impressed
with the fact that I had passed the great meridional
mountain barrier, the ancient Imaos, dividing Ptolemy's
'Inner' and 'Outer Scythia', as it does now easternmost
Iran from the westernmost marches of China's Central-
Asian dominion. The same night, after a thirty-three miles'
walk and ride, I reached the Kirghiz grazing-ground of
Kun-tigmaz in the main valley below Moji. There I met
Sir Percy and Miss Ella Sykes returning from the Taghdum-
bash Pamir, and next day in their camp enjoyed a happy
day of reunion.
Five days of rapid travel then carried me along the
northernmost of the Chinese Pamirs and up the gorge of
the westernmost feeder of the Kashgar river. When crossing
the Kosh-bel pass at a height of some 13,800 feet on the way
to the latter I gained my first view of the great Trans-Alai
range stretching east to west and rising to peaks of over
20,000 feet. While ascending the bed of the Markan-su, which
sends its water towards Kashgar, we passed the unmarked
Russian border. That night we were visited by a snow-storm
at a temperature well below freezing-point. Next day, on
July 26, we reached the saddle of Kizil-art, where the mili-
tary road connecting the Russian posts on the Pamirs and
along the Oxus with the province of Farghana crosses the
Trans-Alai range at an elevation of about 14,000 feet.
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