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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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Text Appearing Before Image: to sing on themarch. The animals understood that they were comingto good pasturage, and quickened their pace without anyshouts from the men. The tents were set up in the sameplace as last year, and here I closed my long circuitousroute through Tibet. It was with a melancholy feeling Isaw this place again, where Muhamed Isa had raised histall cairn. Now we had avoided all dangers from Rudok,and we minded little that England and Russia hadpromised each other not to let a European into Tibet forthree years. The height here was 16,198 feet. For several days I had spoken of this place with itsgood pasturage, and when we broke up our camp on theI ith I was able to promise my men a still better camp forthe next night. They were astonished that I was somuch at home in these dreary regions. The track of thegreat caravan of 1906 was blown away by the passage ofmany storms, but the Aksai-chin lake soon came intosight, its surface looking grey and dismal in the chilly 258 301. View from Camp 307.

Text Appearing After Image: The small salt Lake south of Camp 309. (Smudge in sky caused by the freezing of the colour.)

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