1848.] Narrative of a Journey to Cko Lagan, fyc. 159 



Dolmala, the ridge of the mountain behind the Peak, on which is a 

 small pond which the Hindustanis call Gauri-Kund ; the ridge is high 

 enough to have snow upon it early in the summer. Thence the road 

 descends to the 3rd Gumba, Jungdulphu, in the eastern ravine. The 

 4th is Gyanktang, in Gangri, already mentioned. The Sarchu, which 

 comes from the western ravine as before observed, flows past Chang- 

 chung into the channel of Lajandak, contributing to the Tirthapuri 

 Sutlej. This was not noticed by Moorcroft, apparently, on his way to 

 Gangri, 3rd August, but it may be the " small river" at which he en- 

 camped on his return, 1 1th idem. 



From the south face of Kailas, close above Gangri, rises a consider- 

 able stream, which the Bhotias called La-chu (i. e. the mountain river), 

 falling into Cho Lagan, 3 or 4 miles to the south-east of its northern 

 extremity. Moorcroft describes this stream, 3rd August, as crossed 

 by a Sanga just below Gangri, and originating in a cascade close above ; 

 and 11th idem, he calls it the Darchan-gadrah, a mere Hindustani ge- 

 nerality. From the ravine east of Kailas comes another considerable 

 stream also debouching into the lake a mile or two east of the La-chu ; 

 I could get no other name for this than Barka, which is on the right 

 bank of it somewhere in the plain between the mountain and lake. 

 This Barka is the third " Tarjum" i. e. mail station, on the Lhassa 

 road from Gartokh. There is no village, but a standing camp of a 

 tent or two, for the couriers. On Moorcroft' s return from Manasaro- 

 war, 8th August, he encamped " near 7 or 8 tents ;" 3000 paces fur- 

 ther east he noticed "tents of Tartars and Jwaris ;" and somewhere 

 between the two encampments, "a watercourse, dry when he went 

 towards Manasarowar, but now two feet deep ;" one or other of these 

 possibly was Barka. 



These two streams, La-Chu and Barka are the only permanent afflu- 

 ents of Cho Lagan from the Gangri mountains. Moorcroft, 10th August, 

 makes many more, with Hindi names, but that enumeration of his 

 must be set aside, being derived apparently from the report of his Hin- 

 dustani companions, and not agreeing with his own account of the 

 streams actually crossed on his route along the northern shore of the 

 lake : nor indeed do his accounts of streams crossed going and return- 

 ing by the same route, agree, inter se. 



In attempting to find a channel of effluence from Cho Lagan, Rechu 



