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NARRATIVE. 
Ch%ra, one marcli beyond the Pdngong Lake, where 
cultivation ceases, twenty days' journey, about 281 
miles. I call all this Ladak, including under that 
name the Drds Valley. 
4th. From Chagra to where the lower Karakdsh 
Valley was entered, just beyond the Salt Plain, 
eleven days' journey, 185 miles, through a desert the 
whole way, at an altitude varying from 15,000 to 
19,600 feet above the sea. 
5th. Along the lower Karakash Valley — Sarikia 
as the Kirghiz term it — and over the Grim or Sanju 
Pass to Sanju, fourteen days journey, 180 miles. 
This part of our route may be called Hill Yarkand. 
6th. From Sanju to the City of Yarkand, six days' 
journey, the first three of them over a desert plain, 
with oases at the halting-places along the streams 
which come down from the hills, 116 miles. This 
part of the road I call the Yarkand Plains. 
The total distance from Jamu to Yarkand being 
about 1012 miles — rather roughly estimated — by the 
road taken by the Expedition ; about sixty-nine days 
marching, exclusive of halts. 
The traders who annually visit Yarkand, go one sea- 
son and return the next; and although there are only 69 
marches, it is quite impossible to get over the ground 
with laden animals in anything like sixty-nine days, 
unless one had constant changes of baggage animals. 
Traders, on arrival at Le, always consider it necessary 
to give their horses at least a fortnight's rest, before 
they are again fit to take the road ; and they make 
frequent halts wherever grass is to be got. 
