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0389	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0389

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

to Badakshan. He sent »the Havildar» by the Lahori Pass to Chitral and Faizabad,
capital of Badakshan. Returning to Chitral he used the Dora Pass.
»This route survey», says Montgomerie, »with the peaks which were deter-
mined trigonometrically last season, may be said to have put into my hands the
key of the geography of the whole of the unknown region which it was desirable
to explore,» and he hopes to get a further opportunity of exploring the unkown
country.¹

In 1871—72 Montgomerie in a new report says:
From Yárkand the explorations follow the route to the Kárakoram pass, and thence
the connection is continued by the regular operations of this survey to the Panggong lake,
and south to the Indus, where that river first enters Ladák near Demchok . . . .
From the Panggong our explorers have extended the line by a traverse to Rudok,
the capital of the Chinese districts of Panggong &c., and thence, over the very elevated
plateaux north of the Great Aling-Gangri peaks, to the Thok-Jálung gold field, passing
through a succession of gold and borax fields. ²

In February 1870 ROBERT SHAW lectured to the Geographical Society on
A Visit to Yarkand and Kashgar.³ He said that Eastern Turkestan was like a
bay between two ranges: the Tianshan and the Himalaya. »Both converge towards
one another as they run westwards, and are united by a cross-range, supporting
the high plateau of Pamir.»

After the paper Sir HENRY RAWLINSON said that one of MONTGOMERIE'S
Pundits had also explored what had hitherto been a sort of terra incognita to
Europeans. He had travelled from the Indian frontier into the central desert, and
had proved that from Rudok right to the wall of China there were no high moun-
tains. »Thus, after leaving the Pangkong Lake a four-in-hand might be driven to
Kashgar.» It is curious that such an absurd idea could be expressed so many
years after the journeys of the SCHLAGINTWEITS and JOHNSON!

T. SAUNDERS, at the same occasion, thought that SHAW had erred with respect
to the physical geography of the country he had crossed, in supposing that the
Himalayas and the Kwen-lun were to be regarded as one system.

The mass of mountains to the north of India was upwards of 2000 miles in length,
by 600 in breadth. It descended by steep slopes on all sides, by the Himalayas to the
plains of India on the south, and by the Kwen-lun Mountains to the great desert of Gobi
on the north. On the east it descended by equally steep slopes to the plains of China,
and starting from that base the two ranges, the Kuen-lun and the Himalaya, met together
as in an apex at the great mountain knot of Pusht-i-Khar, where they join the Hindoo
Koosh Range. But eastward they were 600 miles apart, and he thought it was not

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