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0715	Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2

0715

Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2

中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2

On August 25th we set out by a very steep side valley to the
south, and crossed the rugged spur between the Zailik and
main Yurung-kash Valleys by a pass over 17,700 feet high,
leading over what manifestly had once been old névé beds.
From a ridge just above the Shalgan Dawan, as Pasa
called it, we could obtain once again a glorious panorama
(Fig. 321). Here, and in the narrow valley beyond, the
decay of all rocks was most striking. We camped about a
thousand feet below the pass, and next day had a most
trying descent in a steep gorge choked with big boulders
and manifestly scooped out by glacier action. Lower
down, where the gorge widened somewhat, I noticed old
moraines, though the range above now showed only scanty
snow-beds. Before the gorge joined the Yurung-kash
defile we were surprised by coming upon a patch of ground
covered with brushwood. There were indications that the
Zailik miners used once to repair here for the sake of
burning charcoal.
The view presented by the Yurung-kash Valley, where
we reached it at an elevation of a little over 13,000 feet,
was singularly impressive in its desolation (Fig. 322). On
both banks of the river, which here rolled its greyish-white
glacier water in a bed some hundred yards wide, there was
nothing to be seen but absolutely bare cliffs of red or
yellow sandstone and detritus slopes below them. For over
two miles our faint track wound along these dead slopes of
rubble. Then it had to drop into the actual river bed to
turn a huge projecting rock-wall, and behind it we suddenly
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