. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. ch Drew and Workman consider to be likewise of morenic origin ;but Oestreich calls it a watershed lake. The downward slopes were quitegentle, and had patches of snow coming down from heights that lookedvery moderate, but are really 16,000 feet or more. According toOestreich the great glacier of Deosai must have come down over this-col, but it probably had more than one outlet. 348 Chapter XVIII. The head of another large valley, like a wide amphitheatre, calledChot
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. ch Drew and Workman consider to be likewise of morenic origin ;but Oestreich calls it a watershed lake. The downward slopes were quitegentle, and had patches of snow coming down from heights that lookedvery moderate, but are really 16,000 feet or more. According toOestreich the great glacier of Deosai must have come down over this-col, but it probably had more than one outlet. 348 Chapter XVIII. The head of another large valley, like a wide amphitheatre, calledChota Deosai, comes in between the real Deosai and the Burzil valley,thi-ouprh which we were to march. This amphitheatre is the source ofthe Shiiigo river, which runs into the Shigar farther down, thus con-tributing its volume of water to the Dras. We went down into theamphitheatre from Sarsingar, and found it clothed with rich pasturebut entirely unoccupied. One crosses over it to gain a narrow defilewhich cuts between the mountains to the south, and by which one gainsa second pass, the Stakpi La. 600 feet lower than PATH TO STAKll LA. The Naib Tehsildar of the district came to meet the Duke with aparty of dignitaries, and they escorted us down from the col and into theBurzil valley. Now we began to see the forests—the birches highestup, and below them the deep green masses of the coniferous trees. Thepath ran among a tangle of flowers, a hundred kinds all familiar, yetseeming strange on account of their size—campanulas of every variety,fragrant forget-me-nots three or four feet high with long branches,marsh-mallows, larkspur, balsam, thistles—all these and many moregrowing with splendour and profusion and a riot of colour. At Burzil we were quartered in a bungalow that seemed like a palaceto us. The high road from Gilgit wound down before us, a splendidsmooth and well-trodden jiath. The Return to Srinag-ar. 349 We had said good-bye to the rough paths, the long m
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