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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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On his map he makes use of the information he was able to collect in Tobolsk and
other parts of Siberia during his captivity, but in his text he has made himself too
much dependent upon the classical geographers. In the history of geographical
research in Central Asia, his name, however, occupies a very prominent place.
We cannot pretend to find any trace of the Kara-korum System on RENAT'S
map of 1733.¹ I have already mentioned² that the hydrography of Eastern Turkestan
on his map is nearly correct, especially regarding the Kashgar-daria, Yarkand-daria
and Khotan-daria. But the towns Ierken and Choton are removed one step too far
east, and thus Yarkand comes to be placed on the Khotan-daria. South of Eastern
Turkestan he has the mountain range of Mustack or Mustagh, which here in reality
corresponds to the Kwen-lun and not to the Mustagh-Kara-korum, of which Renat could
not have the slightest notion. I have said above³ that Renat's Khotan-daria is drawn
as if it comes from a lake Charchol which I believed could be the Kara-kul. This
presumption, however, I think cannot be maintained. The name Charchol rather
indicates a country than a lake, and it may be a corruption of the name Sarikol,
Sarikol, Sarik-kol. This would seem the more probable as, just south and S. W. of
Charchol, the people Siara-kolser, i. e. Siara-kols or Siara-kolians, inhabitants of Sarikol,
is entered. East of the latter are the Kasmirer, i. e. Kashmirians, and west of it
Badaschaner or Badakshanis. For the Kara-korum, there is no room on the map.⁴
In an atlas entitled Bequemer Hand Atlas aus 26 Hommanischen Landkarten....
etc. A. 1754, there is a map with the title: Imperii Russici et Tatariae Universae....
Tabula.... Joh. Mathiae Hasii.... Norib. A. 1739, of which Pl. IX is a reproduction.⁵
On this map the general geography S. W. of Eastern Turkestan is superior to that
on RENAT'S map. The Kashgar Range is here called M. Tenebrosi, and west of it
is the country, Vagian, obviously Vakhan. To the south of the latter is Balur and
R. Bedacschan. Kashgar-daria, Yarkand-daria and Khotan-daria are all entered, though
less correctly than on Renat's map. S. E. of Khotan-daria is a river, parallel with
it, and running S. W.—N. E. One would think it ought to be the Keria-daria. The
fact that it on the map, as in reality, never reaches Yerken f., or Tarim, is only
a chance. It is called Kotomni f. At its end in the desert is Peim, at its middle
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