Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 2/Difficulty as to Fires at Great Altitudes

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Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Volume 2
by Nicholas Prejevalski

Supplementary Notes by Col. Yule: Difficulty as to Fires at Great Altitudes

The Murui-ussu, the Tibetan Source of the Yang-tse-kiang

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1680257Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Volume 2 — Supplementary Notes by Col. Yule: Difficulty as to Fires at Great AltitudesNicholas Prejevalski

DIFFICULTY AS TO FIRES AT GREAT ALTITUDES.
P. 183.

Marco Polo notices this in his account of Pamir; and a note on that passage (2nd ed. i. p. 187) gives some remarks on the subject by Humboldt, and some of the experience of my friend Col. Montgomerie, R.E.—[Y.]