CHAPTER VI.

Descend Hanle river -- Unsettled weather -- Encamp on banks of Indus -- Upper course of Indus -- Pugha ravine -- Forest of Myricaria trees -- Borax plain -- Hot springs -- Borax lakes of Eastern Tibet -- Sulphur mine -- Pulokanka Pass -- Salt lake -- Lacustrine clays with shells -- Ancient water-mark -- Rupchu -- Tunglung Pass -- Fall of snow -- Alluvial conglomerate -- Giah -- Narrow ravine -- Miru -- Upshi -- Indus valley -- Marsilang -- Richly cultivated plain of Chashut -- Bridge over Indus -- Le -- Buddhist edifices 155