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0733 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
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[Photo] 325 ZAILIK GORGE BELOW SAGHIZ-BUYAN, VIEWED FROM WEST.
[Photo] 326 DONKEYS DESCENDING ROCK COULOIR FROM SPUR ABOVE HEAD GORGE OF YURUNG-KASH RIVER.

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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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us into veritable bogs, very difficult to
already suffering from the effects of gr
llness made the march, on September
and an almost total absence of gra
l basin of the Keriya River sources exten
h most of the ground was a level pl
Whenever the sun broke through ba
my eyes could revel in the glorious p
went, with wonderful bluish tints if
here were plenty of interesting geogra
ch the infant Keriya River, like the Yu
from the cradle of its birth. But lon
r impressions, they could not let me b
that night's camp. The exhaustion o
d us to halt by the side of a long l
was so sudden that men and animals
addle on a narrow ridge of sand fring
ry gale, driving snow at intervals p
night. Apart from their rations o
olutely nothing for the animals to eat.
ext morning the first victim remained b
camp. It was a poor pony, unable to m
a bullet put out of pain.
on, most of our efforts had to be sp
nd animals from foundering in the dee
finding tracks round impassable bog
relied to have to climb up a spur cla
gh, which crossed our route, as it m
more than these miseries. Curiously e
y crowned below it the almost imper
ch divides the Keriya River draining
Lagtisun. The wide valley beyond th
a bottom that even Lal Singh's expe
mistook the direction in which it was re
great relief for us all when at last th
rolling over the sodden plain united it
and a sandy plateau came in s
wild asses grazing on the scanty tu
and when by nightfall we pitched