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travelled at. We also met with new species of plants, 
specimens of which I added to my botanical collection. 
Yet another donkey gave up; and the surviving three 
looked as though they would not last very much longer. 
September 21st. The object we had before us through- 
out the whole of the day’s march of sixteen miles was 
to reach lake No. 20. All day we followed the course 
of a stream which came down from the Southern 
LAKE NO. 20, LOOKING EAST 
On the shore of which camps No. XXXI. -XXXIV were pitched 
Mountains and flowed into the lake ahead, catching up 
several tributaries on the way, a stream which had a 
volume of forty-five cubic feet in the second. None of 
our animals died. The country was still barren and 
monotonous. But we saw yaks, khulans, antelopes, bears, 
voles, ravens, larks, wagtails, and gulls, as well as flies 
and gadflies. At the point where it entered the lake the 
stream formed an extensive sedimentary delta. This lake 
too was like a sea, so large that we were unable to 
