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0741 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
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[Photo] 328 VIEW SOUTH TOWARDS GLACIERS OF MAIN KUN-LUN RANGE FROM HEAD-WATERS BASIN OF YURUNG-KASH.
[Photo] 329 SLATE CLIFFS RISING ABOVE RIGHT BANK OF YURUNG-KASH, NEAR DEBOUCHURE OF TÜGE-TASH STREAM.

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over this easy ground until we struck a
of bare gravel streaked by small ch

the debouchure of a big side valley, at th
number of glaciers showed, evidently fed b
own of the Yurung-kash watershed. D
march we halted by the side of a
ng island-like above this vast delta of de
ly clear evening revealed once more f
of the great chain to the north. Abov
rose a majestic ice-girt peak, 25,4
by the look of its double cone a
n could clearly identify as one already
our 'hill station' above Tar-kol. Gaz
lled the heads of all the valleys here deem
ain range. The vista from our hillock w
stic grandeur, and the silent solitude of
ther impression of vastness. That we
wn a day's halt for triangulation caused r
Singh and myself.

morning of September 13th, when the morn
er showed seventeen degrees Fahrenheit
st, a cloudy sky had effaced the now dist
ened by a succession of icy gales and driv
s crossed an almost imperceptible water
ound large flood-bed draining the rage f
sun broke through for short intervals, a
again some fine snowy peaks already p
from the other side. We were moving
waters; and it was curious how soon a se
ould produce in the rarefied air Fua Moh
our bakers and hillocks raised into the air
seemed to grow if anything more a
after a march of over twenty miles we
all stream, and finding some badly pr
stamp by its bank. The baggage a
with ominous slowness. The inter
as their suffering, and next morni
nd found quite unable to move had to b
arried.