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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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pp. 248—279), and Lord Strangford got permission to examine the Foreign Office MS.
He arrived at the same result as Rawlinson.
The Klaproth MS. claimed to be a confidential report of a Russian Surveying
Expedition from Semipalatinsk to the Indian frontier, 1801—1802. Klaproth borrowed
it in 1806. An English translation of it with two copies of sketch routes was sold
by Klaproth to the British Government, for some 1000 guineas. The MS. was
accompanied by a MS. map of Central Asia in 6 sheets in Klaproth's handwriting,
1822. In a memorandum Klaproth said: »For the western part of Thibet the Penjab
and Hindustan, I had no other materials than those furnished by Mr. Arrowsmith's
Maps.» This statement is, in Rawlinson's opinion, untrue, »as a comparison of the
maps will show, and indicates, as I think, intentional deception».
Lord Strangford's results were published in the Proceedings Vol. XIII p. 20.
Herewith Rawlinson regarded the Klaproth imposture as complete. Khanikoff, on
the other hand, with full approbation of the President of the Paris Geographical
Society, upheld the authenticity of the German travels. Strangford proved, according
to Rawlinson, that the geography of the three memoirs was essentially wrong, further
that the same errors, especially in regard to the country between Kashmir and Pamir,
were common to all three papers, and not to be traced in any other independent
authority; finally, as two of the documents spring from Klaproth, he is either the
author also of the third, or concerned in its fabrication.
Rawlinson proves that »every name that is quoted by Veniukoff from the
Chinese Itinerary occurs in the Klaproth MS. and probably if Veniukoff's extracts
had been fuller, the identity of the two documents would have been more conspicuous».
Colonel GARDINER corroborated in no small degree the statements of Klaproth,
which mystified Rawlinson at first. Names of lakes and places as well as the general
description were the same in both cases. After a careful examination, however,
Rawlinson found
that all Colonel Gardiner's geography of the Upper Oxus and the surrounding
countries, however overlaid with imaginary names, or in some few cases improved and
verified by actual observation, was as a rule dependent for its foundation on Arrowsmith's
Map of 1834; and when at the same time I remembered that this map was itself laid down in
regard to its eastern portion from the Foreign Office MS., the mystery was at once
dispelled, and I became aware that what seemed to be an independent corroboration was
in reality nothing more than a repetition of the original fiction.
In his map of 1834, Arrowsmith had been imposed upon by Klaproth; Raw-
linson regrets that Arrowsmith, »whose general accuracy is proverbial, should have
given currency to the mischievous fictions of Klaproth» and in the cases of Bolor
River and Wakhân, led Humboldt astray.¹
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