. Scottish Geographical Magazine. ibet reçoit probablement jusqu'à la vallée du Brahmapoutre-une pluviométrie très considérables, saybetween 20 et 30 pouces, à une conjecture. Nous avons traversé le karo-facile la Pass, environ 16 000 pieds, où l'ColonelBrander avait combattu son gallant peu d'action au début de mai, et la nextday débouchèrent sur au plus beau lac que j'ai jamais vu theYamdok-TSO. Dans la forme c'était comme un anneau rugueux, entourant ce qui ispractically une île ; et dans la couleur qui varie pour chaque nuance de turquoise violetand bleu et vert. Parfois, il serait le bleu du ciel,reflétant l'intense sk tibétain

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. Scottish geographical magazine. ibet receives—probably up the Brahmaputra valley—a quite considerable rainfall, saybetween 20 and 30 inches, at a rough guess. We crossed the easy Karo-la Pass, about 16, 000 feet, where ColonelBrander had fought his gallant little action early in May, and the nextday debouched on to the most lovely lake I have ever seen—theYamdok Tso. In shape it was like a rough ring, surrounding what ispractically an island ; and in colour it varied to every shade of violetand turquoise blue and green. At times it would be the blue of heaven, reflecting the intense Tibetan sky. Then, as some cloud passed over it, or as, marching along, we beheld it at some different angle, it would 238 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. flash back rays of the deep greeny blue of a turquoise. Anon it wouldshow out in various shades of richest violet. Often, Avhen overhead allwas black with heavy rain-clouds, we would see a streak of brilliantlio-lit and colour flashing from the far horizon of the lake ; while beyond. it and beyond the bordering mountains, each receding range of whichwas of one more beautiful shade of purple than the last, rose once morethe mighty axial range of the Himalayas, at that great distance notharsh in their whitey coldness, but softly tinted with a delicate blue, and shading away into the exquisite azure of the sky. What caused the THE GEOGRAPHICAL RESULTS OF THE TIBET MISSION. 239 marvellous colouring of this lake, which even the Tibetans call theturquoise lake, we could none of us say. Perhaps it was its depth, perhaps it was its saline character, or some chemical component of itswater. But whatever the main cause, one cause at least must have beenthe intensity of clearness in the liquid Tibetan sky, so deep and sotranslucent that even the sky of Greece and Italy would look pale andthick beside it. For three days we marched along the shores of this beautiful lake, and then we ascended our last pass and looked down on to the Brahma-putra ri

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