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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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keep for his own people. So, notwithstanding the previous
orders, no yaks turned up in the morning. When the man
saw that I was in earnest and that further delay was likely to
involve him in more serious consequences than the voluminous
objurgations to which Islam Beg and Niaz, the Chinese
interpreter, had treated him already, the yaks were dragged
out from the neighbouring glens. But we had lost two hours
—a long time at that season when night falls so early in the
narrow valleys.
At 10 a.m. we started up the Kash stream, and after about
two miles turned into a narrow glen known as Gez Jilga.
When after a toilsome climb of close on three hours we had
reached the Pom-tagh Pass, about 12,400 feet above the
sea, a grand view opened to the east and south. It
comprised the whole glacier-crested range from 'Muztagh'
on the extreme left to the hoary peaks which showed their
heads above the glaciers closing the Karanghu-tagh Valley.
No visible point in the glittering crest-line which filled about
one-third of the horizon could be much under 20,000 feet,
while quite a number of the peaks, as subsequent triangula-
tion showed, reached 22,000 to 23,000 feet. Nearer to the
south-west and west there rose a perfect maze of steep ser-
rated ridges and steeple-like peaks. Embedded among them,
but quite invisible lay the narrow valleys forming the grazing
grounds of Nissa. I climbed a knoll on the water-shed ridge
some 400 feet above the pass, where work with the plane-table
and photo-theodolite kept us busy for a couple of hours. It
was an ideal day for survey work; scarcely a cloud lay on
the horizon, and the air, with 50° F. in the shade, felt
deliciously warm.
An extremely steep track, by which our ponies were led
with difficulty, took us first along a bare rocky ridge and then
down, at least 3,000 feet, by a narrow ravine to the Karagaz
gorge. When we had reached its bottom by half-past four
it was getting quite dusk between the high and precipitous
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