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Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2 |
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CHAPTER LXXVIII
ACROSS THE TO-LAI-SHAN RANGE
Next morning, August 5th, a heavy white fog hid the whole
of plateau and mountains until 7 A.M. But when the sun
broke through, the vistas were inspiring. Near by the eye
was refreshed by the sight of young flowers, among them
many edelweiss, just appearing amongst the scanty tufts of
grass and moss. The men needed the forenoon to dry
their clothes in the sun and to cook their food for which
fuel had been lacking in the evening, and I used these
hours of brilliantly clear sky to ascend to a dominating
point of the watershed, about 14,000 feet high. From
there I secured a complete panorama of this strange
amalgam of high ranges, bright red downs, and boggy
uplands (Fig. 235).
When I returned to camp I found everybody, Surveyor
and Chiang included, eager to turn their back upon this
bleak spot. The miners' little stock of dry dung and
other substitutes for fuel had given out completely. Of
course, I had to pay for it handsomely. The Surveyor
took the chance of investing a loan of twenty Taels, a little
over three pounds, which he had asked from me, in gold
dust purchased from the miners. The rate of exchange,
25 ounces of silver to one ounce of gold, seemed to him to
promise a fair margin of profit on taking the gold to
India. The question as to the purity of the gold was
the speculative element in the transaction.
I had determined that for survey purposes we should
follow the plateau separating the Richthofen and To-lai-
shan ranges as far to the north-west as possible, and then
make our way over the latter. Accordingly we marched
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