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0232 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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point is within two hundred miles of the Siberian Rail-
way. Now go east one thousand miles—Russia to the
north, China to the south,—the railway generally parallel
to our line of march, and two hundred miles away. We
have reached the western tip of Manchuria—but the dis-
tinction between Manchuria and Mongolia, both being
Chinese territory, is not politically important. We may
go eastward another two hundred miles, into Manchuria,
making this second line twelve hundred miles in length
—east and west. Now strike south-westward twelve hun-
dred miles,—on a line nearly parallel to the first one,—
and we shall have left Southern Manchuria and Northern
China proper (the China of the eighteen provinces) to
the east, enclosing Mongolia, lying to the west; now
westward, on a line which refuses to be even approxi-
mately straight, for it must follow a curve of the great
Altyn-Tagh—Kuen-Lun range, but which is roughly an
east and west line. We have now nearly closed our 1200-
mile trapezoid. We have reached the Pamirs; and by
running north about three hundred miles we are back at
the starting-point, having enclosed the area known as
Mongolia, and in the south-west corner of the pentagon,
which is nearly a trapezoid, we have skirted the region
known as Chinese Turkestan—roughly, one million and
a half square miles, one half the area of the United
States. Now for Tibet.
Go back to the south end of the third line, near the
lake known as Kuku-Nor; thence go southward, cross-
ing mountains and streams if you can—a hard journey
of, say, six hundred miles. You have the southern part
of China on the east, Tibet on the west. Now another
twelve-hundred-mile line, trending a little north of east,
—Assam, Bhotam, Sikkim, and Nepal are on the south;
Tibet on the north,—and you have been cresting the
Himalayas all the while. The valley of the Brahmaputra