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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
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tient. Iordered him a cold compress, but he asked me, to theintense amusement of others, just to go back to my tentagain. Muhamed Isa laughed till he rolled over. Guffarusat upright on his bed, moaned and groaned, and beggedme to go away. I gave him a strong dose of opium, andnext morning he was so brisk that he walked all the way,though a horse was at his disposal. The remains ofBurroughs and Wellcomes medicine chest had saved hislife ; he was thankful and pleased that his shroud was notrequired this time. On May ii we mounted to the pass Lungring (17,697feet) in a bitterly cold snowstorm, and descended the valleyof the same name to the bank of the upper Raga-tsangpo.On the 12th we marched upstream; the valley is broad,and is bounded on the north by great mountains. Thethermometer had sunk to —0.8°, and the storm was deadagainst us. Occasionally it abated so much that we couldhear the footfalls of the horses on the detritus, but wewere benumbed when we came to the camp. Thick snow
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XXXVIII CHAKTAK-TSANGPO OUTLET 41 fell all the afternoon. My puppies sat together in thetent door and growled at the falling flakes, but when theysaw it was no use, they snapped at the flakes as thoughthey were flies and pawed at them. Then they went backinto the tent, lay on the frieze blanket in the corner, andlet it snow on. On the next days march we passed Kamba-sumdo,where the two head sources of the Raga-tsangpo unite;the one, coming from the west, is named Chang-shung,the other, from the south-west, Lo-shung, i.e. Northern and Southern Valley. The Chang-shung is the larger.The Lo-shung we had to cross twice, and found the bedfull of stones connected by slippery ice. In the west alarge snow-covered ridge appeared, the Chomo-uchong,or High Nun, which was discovered by Nain Sing.Ryder measured it and produced an exact map of it. Beltsof snow descend from the white summits down the darkflanks. Other Tibetans called it Choor-jong (Illust, 212). Still marching south-westwards we appr

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