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0410	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

to where a remarkable double peak occurs in the Chain, and at this point throws out
a somewhat irregular spur, named the Karatágh, towards the Kuen-Luen, which forms the
eastern crest of the high central plateau of Aktágh. At this double peak the Karakoram
range, after running with a general direction of E. S. E. from the Pusht-i-Khar, a distance
of 320 miles, suddenly turns to the south, and, again rising into a lofty chain of snowy
peaks considerably above 21,000 feet above sea-level, forms the watershed between the
Shayok and Karakash rivers, until, in the parallel of 34° 43′ N., it trends again to the
eastward, and runs along the head of Chang Chenmo; and here constitutes the southern
crest of the elevated table-land known as the Lingzi Thung plains and the Aksai Chin.
Hayward then returned by the Suget-davan to Shahidullah. He further made
the following important orographical and hydrographical discoveries:¹
Hitherto our maps have represented the Kara-koram and Kwen-lun to be one and
the same great chain, whereas a distinct watershed and the Yarkand and Karakash rivers
intervene between the two ranges. On the other hand, the Tiznáf River has been defined
as rising in the Karakoram Pass, and flowing through the Kuen-Luen range to its junction
with the Yarkand River, which stream has been represented to have its source at the head
of the Sarikol territory, near the source of Wood's Oxus. This is entirely wrong. The Tiznáf
is but a tributary of the Yarkand River, and rises on the northern slope of the Kuen Luen to
the east of where the Yangi Pass crosses that range. — It would be satisfactory were a definite
geographical name assigned to the great watershed dividing the basin of the Indus from
the Turkistan rivers, and which is comprised in the great chain known, in the different
portions of its length, as the Karakoram, Muztágh, and more anciently Belortágh, and
Pololo. To the inhabitants of Eastern Turkistan, the whole chain is known as the Muztágh
Range, which in Turki means the »Glacier Mountain« or range; the word Karakoram being
merely applied to the pass of that name. That the name Karakoram should be given to
the range indefinitely is desirable for the sake of distinction and the Karakoram Range,
as specified in the report, will be understood to refer to the whole mountain system, in-
cluded in the chain stretching from the Pusht-i-Khar to the head of Chang-Chenmo.
The Sanju-davan (16,612) is situated in the Kilian range, which is a spur
from the Western Kwen-lun and bounds the Kara-kash valley on the north.
Then Hayward says:
A cursory glance at the map suffices to show that the most direct route from the
north-west provinces of India to Yarkand must, after reaching Chang-Chenmo, cross the main
chains of the Karakoram and Kuen-Luen and the intervening high land of Aktagh, in
a general direction bearing N. N. W. I have endeavoured to show that the true road into
Eastern Turkistan from Aktagh is down the valley of the Yarkand River and across the
Kuen-Luen Range by the Yangi Pass, and it remains to point out the most direct route
by which Aktagh can be reached from Chang Chenmo. This is the route we followed
on our return; from the Chang Lang Pass leading across the Karakoram Range it traverses
the western side of the Lingzi Thung plains, and entering the upper valley of the Kara-
kash River, conducts down that valley and across the Karatágh Pass of Aktagh.
Finally we should remember these words, which, except for a few mistakes,
are perfectly correct:²

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