Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in Tibet . advantage of thisfine longitudinal valley, which imperceptibly rises to a flatthreshold, beyond which we passed a gold placer. Theholes from which the auriferous sand is extracted are 3 to16 feet in diameter, and little more than 3 feet deep. Itis evident that some of them have been dug out lastsummer. A little farther down gold had been searched forsome time ago. Folds, stone shelters for marksmen, andstone cairns were to be seen in several places. Still lower down we came, on the following day, to athird placer, situated where the valley
Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in Tibet . advantage of thisfine longitudinal valley, which imperceptibly rises to a flatthreshold, beyond which we passed a gold placer. Theholes from which the auriferous sand is extracted are 3 to16 feet in diameter, and little more than 3 feet deep. Itis evident that some of them have been dug out lastsummer. A little farther down gold had been searched forsome time ago. Folds, stone shelters for marksmen, andstone cairns were to be seen in several places. Still lower down we came, on the following day, to athird placer, situated where the valley contracts to a large sheepfolds and abundant tracks of men werefound. The gold is washed out on flat stones in a flume 100yards long. The valley afterwards contracts to a breadth of5 yards, and the bottom is mostly filled with ice, here andthere forming ledges. These had to be levelled with axesand strewn with sand, and each animal was led and heldup by men. We could not afford to let any one of them iW jl?^^ -K -1. 1 BHK ^ ««# Ifjl. 313, 314, 315, 316, 317. Panoramas kkom thk Camvs 31S, ^^3, 335, 359. 360: IN THE LASl- TWO, S1IA-KANGSHAM. After Water-colour Sketches by the Author. THIRTY DAYS OF STORM 285 break his leg and be lost to us. Then the ice came toan end, the valley opened out, and we pitched our tentsin an extensive flat. Towards the east the land was allfavourable, and no Snowy Range stood in our could see 25 miles ahead. Tubges shot five haresand we had a feast that evening. A pack of wolveshowled round the camp at night. February 27. A thousand wild asses were seen onthe plain which sloped down gently to the east-south-east. They formed dark lines, sometimes large, some-times small, sometimes spots like a rosary. Some herdsgalloped off to a point about two hundred yards in frontof the caravan, where they stood and gazed and thendispersed, springing away in graceful movements. Perhapsthey were here for a great spring congress, to decideques
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