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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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Indian Trigonometrical Survey. The great Muztagh, which
had again and again during our previous climbs appeared
before us in unmistakable majesty, could alone not suffice
for this purpose; and other triangulated peaks on the main
watershed we had been unable to recognise with any certainty
as long as we were comparatively near to the unbroken screen
of icy ridges.
It was thus with a feeling of eager expectation that I
pushed upwards. The long-stretched back of the mountain
forming the Ulughat-Dawan had become visible when the
slope changed into a series of less steep shoulders. But a
projecting spur shut off the view to the south and kept me in
suspense. An hour ahead of my people and followed only by
Ram Singh, I gained at last a small saddle in the main ridge.
By ascending a broad knoll to the south I should soon learn
whether my hope was to be fulfilled. So we left the ponies
and hurried up. It was a moment of intense joy when,
arrived at the top, I beheld the grand panorama that suddenly
revealed itself. The whole of the mountain-world traversed
during the last three weeks lay before me, and beyond it a
semicircle of great snowy peaks which had been hidden
hitherto by nearer ranges. Far beyond Muztagh we could
see glittering ranges in the direction of the main Yurung-kash
source. The glaciers we had passed at the head of the valleys
between Issik-bulak and Nissa were now seen to be sur-
mounted by ice-peaks of the most varied shapes, domes,
pyramids, and bold steeple-like cones. To the west there
rose a grand chain of snowy mountains encircling the head
waters of the Kara-kash river. No European eye had ever
seen them from the south. Towards the north only a narrow
belt of eroded rocky ridges separated us from the great desert
plain and its fringe, the Khotan oasis.
The sky was brilliantly clear all around, but over the plains
there hung the ever-present haze of dust. It covered and
effaced with its tinge of brownish-yellow alike the sand of the
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