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Title: Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in Tibet
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952
Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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earedagain foreshortened. This camp stood on the left bank ofthe river. May I. Spring is come; we have, indeed, had asmuch as 29 degrees of frost during the preceding nights,but the days are fine and clear, and it is never as tryingas in the Chang-tang, even riding against the wind. Atcamp No. 150 we had been at a height of 15,446 feet ; nowwe go slowly down, following the river at first, but leavingit on the left when we see it emerge from the mountainsas through a gate. Over a singularly uniform and con-tinuous plain without fissures or undulations we nowapproach in a south-westerly direction the threshold whichseparates the Shuru-tso from the Dangra-yum-tso. Onthe south-west side of Tangro-gangri appear six glaciers,much smaller than those on the north and east, and ratherto be regarded as spurs and corners of the ice mantlewhich covers the higher regions of the massive. TheShuru-tso is seen as a fine blue line. We approach itsshore and find that the lake is completely frozen over.
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xxxvii TARGO-GANGRI & THE SHURU-TSO 33 We make a halt to photograph and to draw a panorama.Our old man smokes a pipe, and Robert and Tashi trywhich can snore loudest. When I am ready we sneak offquietly from the two sleepers. Tashi is the first to awake,understands the joke, and also sneaks off. At last Robertawakes and finds himself alone, but he soon overtakes uson his mule. Now we have the lake close on our right. To thesouth rise grand mountains, one of the loftiest chains ofthe Trans-Himalaya, raven black beneath the sun, but thefirn-fields glitter with a metallic lustre. Considerableterraces skirt the bank, and the valleys running down fromthe east to the lake cut through them, forming hollowways in which a solitary tent stands here and thereguarded by a savage dog. We encamp on the terraceabove the Parva valley, our eight black tents contrastingstrongly with the yellow soil (15,594 feet). Our old Tibetansfrom Kyangdam now bid us farewell and receive doublepayment as a prese

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