After wild sheep in the Altai and Mongolia; . withthe notes I then took there : My party came to thespot where the Kobdo River forms two small lakes,on the banks of which there are several Kirghizencampments. The lower Kobdo lake has anirregular elongated form, stretching 10 miles fromeast to west, with a width of about 5^ miles. Thereare in it fifteen islands, of which some are from 2 to2z> miles long. The upper lake is connected withthe lower by a rapid watercourse 420 feet upper lake proved much larger than it wassupposed to be; its length is about 16% miles andits width 4 miles
After wild sheep in the Altai and Mongolia; . withthe notes I then took there : My party came to thespot where the Kobdo River forms two small lakes,on the banks of which there are several Kirghizencampments. The lower Kobdo lake has anirregular elongated form, stretching 10 miles fromeast to west, with a width of about 5^ miles. Thereare in it fifteen islands, of which some are from 2 to2z> miles long. The upper lake is connected withthe lower by a rapid watercourse 420 feet upper lake proved much larger than it wassupposed to be; its length is about 16% miles andits width 4 miles; its depth attains 18 the pass where we stood we could plainlydistinguish Lake Dain-Kol in the distance due southof us, and on the opposite side of the two Kobdolakes ran the snowclad Muss-Taou ranee from north- A DEBATE 219 west to south-east. Towards noon we reached theriver, at the place where it Hows between the twolakes, and found it so wide and deep that the crossingof it implied a still more serious undertaking than that. OUR NEW DEMITCHA AND MEN. of the Tchagan-Kol. We therefore decided to pitchcamp on this side of the watercourse and hold adebate in the afternoon on the dilemma which nowpresented itself. The first question to elucidate wasthe presence of wild sheep in those mountains, whichfact could only be ascertained from our new Mongol 2 2o AFTER WILD SHEEP IN THE ALTAI guide, who, alone of the whole caravan, was supposedto have ever visited those regions. Accordingly wehad him called up and interrogated him on the subjectthrough our Russian and Kalmuk interpreters. Inanswer to our inquiries he said that he had spent overtwo months in those hills catching Marmots, of whichhe had found great numbers, but that he had nevercome across any kotchkor (wild sheep), which in-habited the eastern spurs beyond Dain-Kol, wherehe thought we should be likely to get sport. Thesestatements, though perhaps untrustworthy, materiallychanged the aspect of affairs. We had
Size: 1803px × 1386px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1900
