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0704 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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showed a temperature of fully 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
It was a good place to give the animals a short rest, and
to form a base from which we might effect our expedition
into the unexplored valleys of the uppermost Yurung-kash.
From the very careful trigonometrical survey which
Captain Deasy effected in 1897 along this part of the
Polur-Ladak route, I knew that the easternmost point of
the Yurung-kash head-waters lay due south of Seghiz-köl.
So Lal Singh, active as ever, set out on August 16th to
reconnoitre the ground in that direction, and to start a fresh
net of triangles with the help of Captain Deasy's points.
Yet, I confess, I felt oppressed by doubts how we should
be able to penetrate into that region of difficult deep-cut
valleys for which my Karanghu-tagh experiences of 1900
and 1906 had prepared me. Considering the limitation of
our supplies and means of transport, a false move at the
start and consequent loss of time might prove fatal to all
my plans.
Fortune for once played me a good turn by bringing
into my hands a guide such as I had vainly searched for
among all those reticent and wily hill-men of Polur. Lal
Singh on his reconnaissance had fallen in with one of a
small party of Keriya people hunting for wild yaks, and I
promptly despatched Niaz Akhun, the energetic Darogha
who had accompanied us from Khotan, to fetch them from
their camp near Seghiz-köl. Half-frozen he turned up
next morning bringing the whole party of hunters—Pasa,
an experienced if shifty-looking fellow (Fig 317), with three
equally ragged companions half-Tibetan in appearance.
Pasa, after some cross-examination, confessed that there
were gold-pits still worked by small parties of Keriya
people in a side valley of the Yurung-kash known as Zailik,
to be reached by a couple of marches. When I explained
why I wanted to get to the river's easternmost sources by
a route different from that leading south of Seghiz-köl, he
acknowledged that he knew tracks by which we might
make an almost complete circuit of the uppermost Yurung-
kash head-waters.
Of course Pasa very soon caught the infection of
pretended ignorance from our unwilling and contumacious