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南チベット : vol.7

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Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

anything whatever to do with the Kara-korum. From my visit in Khotan in 1896,
I only mention the name of the village, Karangu-tagh, »at the base of the moun-
tains».¹ On Hassenstein's map accompanying my narrative², the mountains south of
the village are also called Karangu-tagh. M. A. Stein, who has visited both the village
and the mountains around it, has a chapter: »In the Karanghu-tagh Mountains», but
the name not entered on his map except for the village.³ There is no doubt that
the name originally belonged to the mountains. Abel-Rémusat only mentions
Karangu-tagh as a range, though he could not know the orography of these regions.
He says:

Le nom de Carangoutac est pareillement turk: Karangouï tag, montagne ténébreuse;
on sait que c'est le nom donné à cette chaîne qui vient de l'Himâlaya, et qui porte sur
les cartes de Danville le nom de Belur, qui paraît avoir la même signification.⁴

If we have a look at early maps, we cannot, of course, expect to find any
sign of the Kara-korum System on them. It may be sufficient to fix this statement
with a few words. Already on the Genoese Map of the World of 1447, we find
a great latitudinal range crossing the whole of Asia from west to east, and the Imaus
montes inaccessibiles starting from its western end, and running to the N. E. The
great features of orography are the same as on Ptolemy's map, on which, however,
the range that comes nearest to the Kara-korum System, is called Paropanisius mons.
The same is the case with Fra Mauro's map of 1459, where both M. Imaus and
Tebet are entered. On Martellus Germanus' map from the end of the 15th
century, we find a range of mountains going through the whole
of Asia and called by four different names: Paropanisius, Imaus mons, Emodi montes
and Serice montes.⁵ Nicolas Desliens, on his map of 1541, does not pay any
special attention to the Montes Imani, which he represents as a group of mountains
from which one of the feeders of the Ganges takes its origin.

The first map on which the influence of Ptolemy has completely disappeared,
and where thus the mountains north of India, which so far had formed one single

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