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0196 Southern Tibet : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / Page 196 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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boundary of »Chinese Tartary»; and — the representation of the main branch of
the Indus. On the Upper Shayok there are some names, difficult to recognize. They
may have been misunderstood from Mir Izzet Ullah's verbal report. The uppermost
part of the Shayok is running almost W.-E. between Yapchan and Sassar, both
names correctly written. From Yapchan the road goes directly up to the Kara-
korum Pass, on the northern side of which is Barangsar. From Sassar to Yapchan
the road is marked along the Shayok, crossing the river at five places. But of the
Murghu road there is no trace at all. This proves clearly enough that Mir Izzet
Ullah did not hear of the Murghu road, or, at any rate, did not use it, showing
that the Kumdan road was open in 1821, as it had been in 1812. At that period
the glaciers were in a period of retreat.