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EAST ASIA.
the main head-stream of the Sind or Indus, and to all of them was applied
the mythical name of the Senge Khabad, or river flowing from the lion's throat."
But the
have established the fact that of these rivers the
Anglo-Indian explorations
true Indus -is that which rises farthest east, near the northern slope of the
Mariam-Ia. This is the longest and most copious of all the streams uniting in
the common bed of the Indus above its entry into Kashmir. Within Tibetan
Fig.
9. LAKE PANG-KOTO : ExcAMPMrxr op THE ENGLISH EXPEDITION of 1871.
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territory the Indus is also joined, and nearly doubled in volume, by the Gartung,
or river of Gartok.
LAKE PANG-KONG.
The continuous diminution of moisture which has reduced so many Tibetan
lakes to mere salt marshes has also dried up many rivers, converting
into closed
basins numerous valleys which formerly drained to the Indus. A striking
example occurs in the Radokh valley, north of this river. In this district, at a