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0728 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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A busy evening and morning at Ulugh-köl were spent over
selecting the fittest of the spare donkeys, and making up
reserve loads of supplies and baggage. It was encouraging
to note how well the brave donkeys, which struggled
through with us, had stood all their trials. The less fit-
looking animals were sent back to Polur, as twenty donkeys
would now suffice for the reduced stores; for these and
the hired ponies we retained the five sturdiest of the
'Kirakash' men. The little band of gold-miners who
had proved so helpful were discharged to Zailik with ample
reward and adequate food for the journey. Of all the
motley company there were to remain with us only Pasa
and one of his fellow-hunters, the former newly equipped
with a good fur-coat which I bought for him as a present
off the back of a returning pony-man.

Then we started, on September 4th, under the farewell
blessings of those who were glad to escape the hardships
still before us. My object was to follow the great snowy
range, which flanks the Yurung-kash head-waters on the
south-east and south along its southern slopes westwards,
until we reached the uppermost valley of the Kara-kash
River, and thus to complete our survey of what had now
proved to be the true main chain of the Kun-lun. For this
purpose we had first to march by the Polur-Ladak route to
the elevated basin, more than 17,000 feet above the sea,
where the Keriya River rises.

The five marches we made along this route took us
over ground already surveyed by Captain Deasy, and my
account of them may, therefore, be brief. On the first
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