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WESTWARDS TO LEH. 453
Soon after that we came over a little pass to a fresh
salt lake, which, like the preceding, was surrounded by
magnificent mountains, with a broad belt of snow-white
saline incrustations at their feet. When I reached the
farther side of the pass, for I had remained behind to take
some measurements, I found Hamra Kul sitting by the
wayside with a couple of dying horses. One did reach
Laying out Mohammed Tokta.
camp ; the other, a piebald from Korla, was quite unable
to stand, so I had him killed at once. Then—but I cannot
dwell upon all the misery of this part of our march. It
will be enough for you to understand that a journey across
Tibet is an unbroken succession of suffering for both man
and beast. It is enough to make one weep tears of blood
to witness all the wretchedness and misery that you have
no means of preventing. Of the 45 horses and mules with
which we started from Charkhlik, there were now only
Ti left alive.
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