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0301	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0301

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

his map, of which Pl. XLII occupies the N. E. corner.¹ This map is of great
interest as it may be said to contain everything known about the region in question,
in 1842. Curiously enough he has sketched the mountains as seen in a horizontal
perspective, just as the Chinese do. So far as can be read from this map, the
Hindu-kush seems far more to be a continuation of the Himalaya than of the
Kuen-lun, which rather seems to lose itself in the mountainous regions north of the
Hindu-kush. This view is not in accordance with the text nor with Humboldt's
schematic maps.

North-east of the Upper Indus, and crossed by the caravan road from Leh to
Yarkand, we find a short but rather mighty range called Karakorum or Padischa
Kette. We have already found the mistake about the two different names in RITTER.
North of this range is another, Baltü Gletscher, also from Ritter, and being in very
intimate connection with the Kuenlün. In the latter is the Pass Kara-korum, though,
curiously enough, not between Yapchan and Barangsar as it ought to be, but
a considerable distance east of the road. The next range on the road is Nanschan
Pingschan, which may be said to be a misunderstanding as set forth in Vol. VIII.
Neither of these two names has a local raison d'être at this place. Tcheragh-saldi
and Yagni Dawan are shown as ranges, and Santchutak, Sanju-tagh, is there south
of Khotan. The Thsungling of the map may be said to be drawn as a western
prolongation of the Nanshan. Notwithstanding the British sources, we trace the
orographical conception of HUMBOLDT and RITTER on this well-drawn map.

Humboldt's orographical skeleton of High Asia is still more clearly to be
noticed in HELMERSEN'S article on ALEX. LEHMANN'S journey to Bokhara and
Samarkand in 1841 and 1842. He regards the Pamir plateau as situated east of
Bolor, and complains of the very scanty knowledge possessed in Europe, of these
regions, which are situated just north of the Kara-korum System. As regards future
exploration he was very pessimistic. Speaking of the Tian-shan, Helmersen says:²

Dieses ostwestlich streichende Gebirge wird bekanntlich unter rechtem Winkel von
dem hohen Bolor oder Belor-Tag gekreuzt, der weiter südlich auch den Kuenlung und
die Himalayakette durchschneidet. Im obern Särafschan-thale musste Lehmann sich dem
Bolor und dem östlich an diesen grenzenden Plateau von Pamir bis auf 250 oder 300 Werst
genähert haben. Welch ein Gewinn wäre es für die Kenntniss Hochasiens gewesen, wenn
Lehmann diese kurze Strecke noch hätte zurücklegen und jene oftgenannten, aber nur noch
dürftig erkannten Gebirgsgegenden betreten können. Weder wir noch unsere nächsten
Nachkommen werden die Zeit erleben, wo Europäer sich frei und gefahrlos in Innerasien
werden bewegen können.²

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