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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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encouraging. They acknowledged that a little settlement
existed in the Omsha Jilga, one march up the main valley, and
that a path accessible to yaks led beyond to a point where a
hot spring flows into the river. But after this no possible
track could be found through the mountains. Whether this
was true or not could be made certain only by personal
inspection. Yaks were to carry the indispensable baggage
and to serve as riding animals for myself and my men. The
ponies which had been severely tried by the preceding marches
were to remain at Karanghu-tagh in charge of Niaz Akhun,
the Chinese interpreter. He had complained of the hardships
previously experienced. It was easier for me to part with
him than with 'Yolchi Beg,' my little terrier. He had
bravely kept up so far, but the long marches had evidently
told on him, and a rest would give him fresh strength for the
fatigues still before us.
By 10 a.m. on the 25th of October the yaks were packed and
the caravan was ready to start. With each animal I took a
hill-man to guide it. Yaks are as sluggish as they are sure-
footed, and without a man to drag each animal by the rope
which is passed through its muzzle the rate of progress would
be amazingly slow. I arranged that each man should be pro-
vided with food for ten days, and secured extra yaks to carry
these rations. Karanghu-tagh has perhaps never seen so
grand a procession as when my caravan set out on the march.
The whole village turned out to witness the spectacle.
After passing down the Kash valley for about two miles we
struck to the east, and, crossing the spur I had before ascended,
moved into the side-valley of Busat. Not far from the point
where it bifurcates into two narrow gorges leading up to the
mountain wall southwards, the path ascended a high cross-spur.
From its top, at an elevation of close on 12,000 feet, the glaciers
of the great Muztagh, and all the gorges leading down to the
main stream, were visible in great clearness. So the photo-
theodolite was brought to work again, though the weather was
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