April 13.—The snow was about a foot deep, and earth and sky were one colour. The reflexion of the bright sun from the snow dazzled the eyes and called for snow spectacles, Even the horses moved slowly, probably because they too were bewildered by the glare.
After the British troops entered Tibet, many of the men suffered from blindness, and it was found to be doe to sunlight reflected from snow, or what is called Asiio mang enowblind.' (This last is T'so's own translation), So everyone entering Tibet ought to to take nots of scow-blindness and to wear snow glasses.
Twenty /i farther he was crossing plateau and bad lost sight of the Niencha. This river rises, he finds, in the Tsung-pu-In Ts'o (Lake) in the monptaios north-east of Kala, aod flows north through Gysngtse and Shigatso and joins the Yala-Teangpu, Its upper courses are known as the Chi "Now Teang pu-lu is sound to Chang-lu, especially as the Tibetanx pronounce very coftly, so that the upper courses are named after the lake (be notes that Ty'o is Tibetan for lake ") from which it springs."
Another ten li brought him to the shores of the Kala Lake, This lake ured to occupy a great deal of ground, bat ninco. 1887 "it has been gradually drying up. In 1897 an earthquake occurred, and the water has shallowed greatly since. The post road used to follow the crest of the hill; now it has been diverted to the dried-up lake bottom. T'so on his arrival at 45 li farther, called for the beam: water aod land that are an emblem of the instability of human affairs. Thermometer, 44°, British troops made a flank movement, and took up position on " hill on the western bank of the Niencho, with the result that the Tibetans were routed.
"The Tibetan soldiers like to use April 14th.—Tea Ni on, a collection of stone houses at Chala, on the slope of the bill, with a small stream flowing south, which mast be the chancel from the Dochen Lake to the Hals Lake, the loose boulders of a plain as cover and traces of this are to be seen below the Jelep Pass and north of Tons, As the boulders were only two feet high ud not more thoo a foot broad, when it came to a hand-to-hand fight they could be crossed at a bound. They were too small either to keep off the enemy or to act as a screen; then why were they used Twenty i farther on are several mined stockades, which tradition says were the barracks of Yo W: cops when be was settling Tibet. The greater part are in mins, bat in the crambling walls are parapets and A. few more miles and he came to the shore of the Dochen Lake, which the Tibetans call Changma Ts'o and travellers tow pose slong its sand fists, The season was mid-spring, the ice was melting, and the water was translacent, Flocks of wildfowl were disporting themselves in the waves, or crowding together on the shoals, Monotain and cloud were mirrored in the snout expaneo; it was one of the finest sights T'ao had seen beyond the frontiers (sai-swal). To the east of the lake rose Monat Chomalbari.
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