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0286 Southern Tibet : vol.3
Southern Tibet : vol.3 / Page 286 (Color Image)

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and his fellow-travellers' eyes could reach to the north and south, but Markham's
»Northern Himalayan range» still remained unknown and still, in 1905, was supposed
to be a range, although in fact it consisted of at least ten different ranges.

Nobody has put this misunderstanding right in a more noble and generous
way than Sir Clements Markham himself, when he wrote, after my second lecture
in the Royal Geographical Society, February 1909: ¹ »The so-called Nien-chen-tang-la
mountains were unknown from the Tengri-nor to the Maryum-la pass, and I always
looked upon their discovery, on those meridians, as the most important *desideratum*
in Asiatic geography for many reasons.»