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南チベット : vol.7

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Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

Roshán, but positions were assigned to them which, when protracted, were wrong
not by individual errors, but by some great error affecting a whole tract; and this
error appeared to be *that a sheet of the original map had been turned through
an angle of 90°*, so that east became north, north became west, and so on.»

When KLAPROTH compiled his own map of Central Asia, and had the Chinese
map before him, he did not use the parts of Pamir and Badakhshan, but left here
a blank upon his published map. YULE shows the whole procedure on three small
maps, where the part which has been deranged in azimuth is shaded. The false
geography, placing Bolor north of Badakhshan, *etc.*, was adopted by KIEPERT (1864),
by VENIUKOFF, and in the apocryphal *Travels* in the Russian Archives.

On account of this careful examination he hopes that Bolor is finally disposed
of. »We not only know that there is no such place where it was located, but we
can also now account for the error.»¹ He hopes to see it dismissed altogether, and
concludes: »Should there anywhere survive a lingering inclination to accept the docu-
ments of the Russian War-office as founded on genuine narratives, because of their
agreement with the geography of the Jesuit Fathers, let us observe that, as we now
see the latter to have been founded on downright accidental error, it follows that
the former, which corroborate that error, are downright forgeries.»²

Sir Henry Yule, at another place³ refers to the translations of the Messrs
MICHELL, called *The Russians in Central Asia*, where an extract of Veniukoff's
records of the apocryphal exploration was to be found.

Regarding these documents Yule says that

their fictitious character had been essentially established by Sir Henry Rawlinson,
even before the lamented Lord Strangford's discovery that a parallel mass of papers, em-
bodying much of the same peculiar geography and nomenclature, existed in the London
Foreign Office, purporting to be the Report of a Russian expedition sent through Central
Asia to the frontiers of India, in the beginning of this century. The papers having been
purchased from the celebrated Julius Henry von Klaproth in 1824, there can be little doubt,
it is to be feared, that the acute and brilliant linguist and geographer was himself the
author of all three sets of papers; nor perhaps was there any contemporary capable of
accomplishing a fraud of the kind so successfully.

In a note Yule says:

I am not aware if the officials of the Russian War Department have ever explained
on what grounds M. Khanikoff was led to suppose that the date of the entry of these

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