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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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ould not leave the spot until I had seen the lake. Ithreatened to tear the Shigatse passport in pieces, andsend off at once a courier to Tang Darin and Lien Darin,and wait for their answer at the foot of Targo-gangri.Then the chief became embarrassed, got up in silence, andwent away with the others. But they were with me againin the evening, and with a humble smile they said that Imight ride up the red mountain if I would promise not togo to the shore of the lake. A thin veil of mist lay over the country all day long.But when the sun set, the western sky glowed with purpleflames, and the cold glaciers and snowfields were thrownup by a background of fire. At last, on April 29, we take to the road and ride upthe affluent Chuma, flowing down from the right and calledin its upper course Nagma-tsangpo. We climb higher andhigher up regularly curved lake terraces ; the view widensout the nearer we approach the summit, where the Ladakisare waiting for us with a fire. The southern basin of the
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xxxvn TARGO-GANGRI & THE SHURU-TSO 29 Dangra-yum-tso was clearly visible as a bluish sabre-blade,and the valley of the Targo-tsangpo widens out like atrumpet to the broad plain beside the shore. It was theeasier to trace the course of the river to the neighbour-hood of the lake because it was marked all along by whiteglistening ice flakes and dark spots where bushes grow.At the end of July the river is said to rise so high that itcannot be crossed. So when letters have to be deliveredto nomads on the eastern foot of the mountain they areweighted with a stone and thrown across a narrow partof the stream. The water of the lake is said to be as salt as that ofthe Ngangtse-tso, and is not fit for drinking; but never-theless pilgrims drink it, because it is holy. At this timethe winter ice was breaking up, and long sheets of ice layonly at the shore. In contrast to most other lakes of Tibet,the Dangra-yum-tso runs north and south, and it narrowsin the middle, just as Nain Sing has draw

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