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0334	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

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Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

range of mountains by the Hanzi pass. The other, a more round-about road, is by way
of Leh or Ladákh, through the valley of the Shai Yak ¹, as the northern branch of the
Indus is named, and over the Karah Korrum mountains, which appears to have been the
route followed by the Sayed (Ahmed Shah). There is another route from Leh to the Karah
Korrum range, further to the west by way of Nubra, but it is only used when the Shai
Yak is too deep to be crossed. The route by Iskárdoh is less than the other by ten
stages, but it is only open from the middle of April to the end of October, whilst the
Leh route is practicable, though difficult, for the greater part of the year.
Raverty distinguishes between the Mus-tagh range of mountains and the Kara-
korum Mountains, and has also the term Kara-korum Range for the latter.
T. G. MONTGOMERIE, the greatest authority of his time on Western Tibet,
also talks of the Mus-tagh and the Kara-korum as two different ranges, although he
may have meant two different parts of one and the same system. In his Memorandum
on the Nanga Parbat,² he writes: »During my three days' residence on the snowy
mountain Haramook, at upwards of 16,000 feet above the sea, I had several fine
views of the Karakorram range and of the ranges to the north of the Indus. Amongst
others two very fine peaks were visible beyond the general outline of the Mustagh
and Karakorram range.»
At the end of STANISLAS JULIEN'S Mémoires (1857) VIVIEN DE SAINT-MARTIN
has published an excellent map illustrating HSUAN-CHUANG'S journeys. In his text³
to this map he gives a list of the material he has used for compiling it.⁴ For the
N. W. confines of China and for Tartary, Vivien de Saint-Martin has used the great
map of Central Asia drawn in four sheets by KLAPROTH, 1833, of which he says:
Cette belle carte est une réduction des atlas chinois, assujettis aux observations astro-
nomiques des missionaires chargées par l'empereur Kien-long d'établir la carte générale
de l'empire . . . For the parts N. W. of Himalaya he has chiefly used the map of
WALKER in CUNNINGHAM'S Ladak. As the material in his time was insufficient,
it is not surprising that Vivien de Saint-Martin has placed the Kwen-lun, which he
calls Chaine des Monts Thsoung-ling, too far south (Pl. XLIX). But if we examine
his map a little closer we find that the Thsoung-ling is not at all meant to be what
we call Kwen-lun, but the Kara-korum Range, as it was known in these days. This
is proved both by the latitude and the fact of its being the great continental water-
parting. The Tsung-ling is here shown as continuing to the N. W. all the way to a
point west of Kashgar, including the Pamir which, in 1857, was extremely little known.
From the Pamir the Hindu-kush stretches to the S. W. as a very mighty range. On
HEINRICH KIEPERT'S map of the same year we find the range with the continental

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