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0026 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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Cunningham reminds us of the fact that the geographical information collected
by Alexander and his companions, and by the subsequent embassies and expeditions
of the Seleucide kings of Syria, was confined to the Indian peninsula. Only by the
systematic inquiries of Ptolemy, this information was considerably extended.

He regards the geography of Ptolemy the more valuable as it comes in
midway between Alexander and Hüan-Chuang.¹ Ptolemy's map is, at any rate,
the first on which a representation — not of the Kara-korum, but at least of its
nearest neighbour to the south, the Paropanisus Mons, is to be found.²

The famous medieval travellers who visited the court of the Great Mongol
Khans, have, of course, a very vague idea of the mountains farther south. If they
mention them at all, they usually rely upon the information given by classical
geographers. According to Rockhill, Isidorus was the geographical guide of
Rubruck, and Isidorus says: »The Mons Caucasus extends from India to the Taurus;
and on account of the diversity of peoples and languages, it is called by different
names in different places». Rubruck tells us that »the Iugurs lived amidst the
mountains to the south». Having mentioned the people Tebet, the Seres, Cathayans
and Moal or Mongols, the famous friar adds: »All these nations are in the mountains
of the Caucasus, but on the north side of these mountains, and (they extend) as far
as the eastern Ocean, and (this is) also to the south of that Sithia which the pastoral
Moals inhabit, and whose tributaries they all are».³

Rubruck's great forerunner, the Friar John of Pian de Carpine, has not
even so much to say of the mountain systems to the south, though he mentions
Burithabeth or Tibet in the passage quoted above.⁴