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CHAPTER XVI.
ADVENTURES IN NORTHERN TIBET.
On the nth November we were again ready to start. The
object of this new excursion, which I estimated would last
about a month, was to cross over and map three of the
parallel ranges of Tibet, as well as to sound the large salt
lake of Kum-kol, which lies immediately west of the lake
of the same name that we had visited on the journey last
described. I was accompanied by a small, but carefully
selected, caravan, consisting of Cherdon, Islam, Tokta
Akhun, Togdasin, and several others, together with thirteen
fresh horses, four mules and two dogs, namely, Yoldash
and Malenki.
It was not exactly a pleasure trip to penetrate those high
regions in the middle of winter ; but the geographical
problems I had set myself to solve would brook no delay.
After a weary ride over those wretched mountains, we
reached the lake without mishap, and dug a well for drink-
ing water, which we found at a depth of about five feet.
There we rested a day. Cherdon and Togdasin begged per-
mission to go hunting ; but evening came and they had not
returned, nor was anything heard of them during the night.
But in the middle of the following morning the}/ turned
up, and Cherdon had the following story to tell. They had
ridden up various wild glens after a flock of arkhari (wild
sheep), leaving their horses when the ascent grew too steep,
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