Identifier: transhimalayadis02hedi (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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th of the lake is confusedand fanciful. Some nomads named the holy mountainChang-targo-ri. On the way back I took levels, assisted by Robert, andfound that the highest recognizable terrace lay 292 feetabove the level of the river. The Targo-tsangpo is herecertainly not more than 6^ feet higher than the surface ofthe lake. As the Dangra-yum-tso is surrounded, par-ticularly on the south, by rather low, flat land, the lakemust formerly have been of very large extent. At thattime the Targo-gangri skirted the western shore as apeninsula. In the night there was a noise like an avalanchefalling ; it became feebler and died away. The horsesand yaks of the Tibetans, frightened by something orother, had stormed the detritus slope of the terrace. Halfan hour later I heard whistling and shouting ; the menwere coming back with the runaways. Before we took leave of our troublesome friends theywere photographed on horseback (Illust. 201). Theyall wore roomy, dark cerise-coloured mantles, and, unlike
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^ 2 cr tfl -fi ^ XXXVII TARGO-GANGRI & THE SHURU-TSO -.i the bareheaded Largep men, a bandage round the head, in i many cases drawn through silver rings hke bangles. One had a tall white hat like a truncated cone, with a flat brim, a head-covering I remembered seeing in Nakchu. Their guns, with the military pennants on the forks, they had slung over their shoulders, and their sabres stuck out horizontally from their girdles in silver-bound scabbards decorated with three pieces of imitation coral. Over the ! left shoulder some carried a whole bandolier of orao cases jwith glass fronts, through which were visible the little I innocent gods which bring their wearers good fortune on j their journey. Their fat little horses stamped and snorted, longing for their old well-known pastures on the shores of ithe Kyaring-tso. They also were decked with needlessly I heavy but dainty ornaments. The white horses with red riders on their backs made a particularly striking picture. It was a varie

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