. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. opposite direction to the Ganchen, bounds theopening of the Braldoh valley. The mountain spurs have shoved backthe path to the sand and pebbles of the valley bottom, save for anoccasional brief space where the river flows to their very bases. Betweenthe ends of these spurs we crossed considerable reaches of sand, whichappear to be a few hundred yards wide, and are sometimes as muchas a mile. Several tributary streams obliged us to mount our ponies From Skiirdu to A
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. opposite direction to the Ganchen, bounds theopening of the Braldoh valley. The mountain spurs have shoved backthe path to the sand and pebbles of the valley bottom, save for anoccasional brief space where the river flows to their very bases. Betweenthe ends of these spurs we crossed considerable reaches of sand, whichappear to be a few hundred yards wide, and are sometimes as muchas a mile. Several tributary streams obliged us to mount our ponies From Skiirdu to Askolev. 113 so as to ford them. The water grew thicker and muddier, as if toprepare us for the mud streams of the Brakloh valley. It must certainlyferry down immense quantities of clay yearly. We now began to turn eastward little by little round Koser Gunge,and hardly noticed that the mouth of the Brakloh valley had l)cenentered until we found ourselves opposite Dusso, its first village, standingon the other bank. Two primitive native rafts, known as zhals,composed of interwoven branches tied by cords to inflated skins, weie. THE GANCHEN (iROUP FROM THE MDlTH OF THE BRALDOH VALLEY. waiting for us on the bank. Each raft was piloted by two men, anddriven out into the stream with long poles as soon as we had takenour places on the boughs, whose interstices were so large that we feltas if we were sitting in the water. The Brakloh is at this point about100 feet wide and very swift. As the current caught us we began towhirl round and round, seeing the whole of the panorama about us fiveor six times in the space of a minute. A little farther downstream, ata narrow point of the river, a liglit bridge had been thrown across thestream, made of two tree trunks with and branches laid overthem; and by this route our guides and coolies reached the oppositebank. Once on the other side, we went up as far as the trees of Dussoand set up our camp. 144 Chapter IX. We were now again .s
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