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Identifier: ruinsofdesertcat01stei (find matches)
Title: Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 Archaeological Survey of India
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
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22. TOP OF DARKOT PASS, LOOKING TO NORTH-WEST ACROSS DARKOT GLACIER TOWARDS INDUS-OXUS WATERSHED. Small specks of black on glacier below arrow indicate Surveyors party.
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23. ON THE BAROGHIL SADDLE, LOOKING TOWARDS OXUS VALLEY.Wakhi carriers relieve a tioundering pony of its load. CH. VI DESCENT IN SOFT SNOW 59 suffered badly from headache and other symptoms ofmountain sickness. But the tea I carried in my largewater-bottle proved a powerful Dawai, and a few mouth-fuls of it for each of the patients sufficed to restore betterspirits, though it was respectfully observed that mymedicine tasted bitter. By the time the Surveyor hadstruggled up we all sat contented in spite of a cuttingwind and occasional drifts of light snow. The mercurialbarometer was safely set up and Its reading observed(17.45 inches at 44° Fahr.) which was to give us the exactheight of the pass. It had been before estimated approxi-mately at 15,400 feet. At 3 P.M. we set out for the downward journey,pleased that we had gained our goal in the face of suchforbidding conditions. Though the snow even near thetop of the pass was now giving way far more than a fewhours earlier, we gained th

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