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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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with snowy heights gleaming up side gorges, I was to be
reminded of the very different region that awaited me east-
wards. Heavy yellowish clouds overspread the narrow bit of
sky, visible between the mountains, and soon the tail end of
a duststorm wafted from the eastern plains swept up the
valley. The night, too, was warm for this elevation.
On the morning of the 25th we had to cross to the left of
the tossing river a little below the spot of our camp, known as
Ilegorum. The river is compressed there by mighty rocks to
a width of some 45 feet, and the chasm is spanned by a
wooden bridge 6 feet broad, quite a creditable specimen, I
thought, of Chinese engineering. The sides were protected
by a substantial railing, and the whole painted bright yellow.
The opposite bank for more than a mile further down was
formed by a high and precipitous wall of rock wholly impass-
able to man or beast. After some three miles we recrossed
by a similar bridge to the right bank, and could have continued
our march there with ease had it not been that the bridge
across the swollen glacier-stream from a side-valley to the
south had been washed away. The stream was wholly unford-
able, and it was necessary to climb up for some three miles to
the mouth of the huge Koksel glacier from which it issues.
It was a trying detour, for the whole valley is blocked by
enormous old terminal moraines. When at last the present
end of the glacier was reached, it was with difficulty that we
dragged up the ponies to the top of that mass of ice rising in
a bank of at least 150 feet above the river. It was fortunately
thickly coated with glacier mud and detritus, and in half an
hour we had safely got the first pony across. From the
eastern side moraine the glacier could be seen stretching
away for miles up the valley to the slopes of high peaks which
were enveloped in clouds. Subsequent surveying showed that
the highest summit of this mountain mass is identical with the
ice-clad Koksel or Sarguluk Peak (23,470 feet), which rises
prominently at the salient angle of the great range north of
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