In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . tream upward for about a mile, when fortu-nately we found a somewhat dangerous yet passablesnow bridge, over which the remainder of my men andgoods effected a crossing in safety. We returned to ourcourse on the Kuti, still passing between high, ruggedmountains along an undulating plain averaging about 400yards wide. Though at comparatively high elevations,there were large patches of brightly colored flowers—red,violet, white, and vivid yellow—which gave to the land-scape a picturesque and constantly changing effect. On reaching a smal
In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . tream upward for about a mile, when fortu-nately we found a somewhat dangerous yet passablesnow bridge, over which the remainder of my men andgoods effected a crossing in safety. We returned to ourcourse on the Kuti, still passing between high, ruggedmountains along an undulating plain averaging about 400yards wide. Though at comparatively high elevations,there were large patches of brightly colored flowers—red,violet, white, and vivid yellow—which gave to the land-scape a picturesque and constantly changing effect. On reaching a small pass, 14,750 feet, the path branchedto Darma by the Jolinkan towards bearings 260°, and over 143 IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND the Lebung Pass. It is really only a goat track, exceed-ingly difficult and fatiguing, except in the month ofAugust, when there is only a small quantity of snow, andit leads to the Dholi River about half a mile south ofKhumling. The Jolinkan River, rising from, the snow-field to theeast of the Lebung or Jolinkan Pass, had now to be. THE JOLINKAN OR LEBUNG PASS crossed. The stalwart dacoit, ever ready to make himselfuseful, conveyed his load across, and, lifting me like afeather on to his back, saved me from plunging higherthan my waist into the bitterly cold water, whereas hewas covered up to his neck. The course of the Kutiturns now to 330° (b. m.). Going up and down smallbarren hills, round the foot of high mountains, we at-tained an altitude of 15,000 feet. Here, to the left of thetrack, and eighty feet above it, is a small and beautiful 144 SOAKED AND FROZEN lake, 500 yards long and 400 wide. Its waters, in whichthe high snowy peaks round it are reflected as in a silvermirror, find an outlet in a short but most precipitousriver flowing with tremendous force into the Kuti. Soonafter leaving this lake we came upon another small sheetof water, near which were thirteen peculiar piles orcolumns of stones, each one having been erected by thefirst Tibetan
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