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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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contend with thesolidity of the ice and its brave resistance, but at last thesun would come to help the wind, and would make the icebrittle and rotten. Leads and fissures would start up inall directions, and the next storm that swept over the icewould overcome all resistance, flinging about the ice blocksand piling them up one on another, driving them to theshore, and sweeping breakers over them so that theywould be crushed, splintered, pulverized, and melted inthe rolling surf. Then I should rejoice at the victory ofthe storm, the release of Tso-mavang and its restoration tolife, and would listen to the song of the waves and thescreaming of the wild geese. Perhaps an hour such as I spent at the parapet ofGossul comes only once a year. The effect is the resultof a certain temperature, a certain percentage of humidity,calm air, preceded by rain and a north-easterly storm.How seldom are all these conditions fulfilled ? At mostonce a year, and just at this hour, this hour of all hours, I
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259- The Old Nun in Vanggo-gompa.Sketch Ijy the Author. xLvii THE GOSSUL MONASTERY 151 stood on the roof and saw the blue lake at rest after itsplay. Wonderful, attractive, enchanting lake ! Theme ofstory and legend, playground of storms and changes ofcolour, apple of the eye of gods and men, goal of weary,yearning pilgrims, holiest of the holiest of all the lakes ofthe world, art thou, Tso-mavang, lake of all lakes. Navelof old Asia, where four of the most famous rivers of theworld, the Brahmaputra, the Indus, the Sutlej, and theGanges, rise among gigantic peaks, surrounded by a worldof mountains, among which is Kailas, the most famous inthe world; for it is sacred in the eyes of hundreds ofmillions of Hindus, and is the centre of a wreath ofmonasteries where every morning blasts of conches soundout from the roofs over the lake. Axle and hub of thewheel, which is an image of life, and round which thepilgrims wander along the way of salvation towards theland of perfection. That is Man

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