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x CHAPTER VI. STRIKING THE SOUTHERN' ROUTE. PAGE Ascent of the Koum Dawan — The Beginning of Mountain Sickness — A Musical Evening — At Ouzoun Tchor — Iça's Reformation — A Caravan Sighted — The Plain of Tchimène — A Providential Meeting — Bagh Tokai — The Southern Route Discovered at Last — Making for Namtso — Diplomacy ... ... ... ... ... 140 — 162

CHAPTER VII. A DEATH IN THE CARAVAN. At Moula Kourghan — More Mountain Sickness — A Chinaman's Logic — Crossing the Amban Ashkan Dawan — The Lake which does not Freeze — A Parting : "Forward to the Highlands " — The Caravan on Ice — Inquisitive Koulans — Ovongo Antelopes : their Strength and Courage — Camp de la Miséricorde — Niaz Sick unto Death — Timour Missing — His Return — Remedy for Mountain Sickness — Rachmed Lost and Found — Naming a Volcano — Chinese Heartlessness — Death and Burial of Niaz — Another Volcano named — A Hurricane— Keeping the New Year ... ... 163 — 197

CHAPTER VIII. A ^WILDERNESS OF MOUNTAINS. New Year's Greetings — The Ruysbruk Volcano — Abdullah Astray — Recovering the Track of the Pilgrims— Making for the Tengri Nor — Crossing the Lake of Cones on the Ice — " Lake Montcalm " — A Valley of Dry Bones — The Dupleix Mountains — Human Handiwork — Probable Source of the Yang-tse-Kiang — Fossils at a Height of 19,000 Feet— Traces of Human Beings— 40° Below Zero— Celebrating the Chinese New Year — " Crows with a Metallic Croak " — Mountains Everywhere — Running Water 198—218