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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
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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cH.xvi ASCENT ON THE GLACIER 191 point of observation. It looked strangely low and uniformfor the Kun - lun watershed. But only two years latercould I realize its significance, when our surveys, carriedfrom across the Tibetan side of the mountains, suppliedevidence that, between the head of the Nissa Valley andthe main range, there lay another high valley as yetunexplored, which must drain the ice-crowned east slopesof the great triangulated peak. Farther ascent on the glacier might have helped togive an inkling of this, and progress for a mile ahead wasprobably easy; but it was getting too late to attempt it.An ominous haze, rolling up the valley from the north,warned me that the dust from the desert would help toshorten the daylight available for the descent. So assoon as the plane - table work and photographing wasconcluded, by 4 p.m., I gave the order for the return. Thefour Nissa men greeted it with unusual animation. Before,they lay stretched out on the detritus mud, complaining

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