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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

Rawlinson continues:
The fabrication of the Foreign Office MS. and of the Chinese Itinerary can be brought home to Klaproth, I think, positively and with almost mathematical precision, but the attribution to him of the German Baron's narrative does not rest quite on the same determinate evidence. On his handdrawn map in 6 sheets Klaproth has, however, sketched Kashmir under the same distorted features as Georg Ludwig von —. Therefore, Lord Strangford was of opinion »that this agreement in a false geography, not otherwise known to exist, proved one of two things, either that Klaproth must have copied his map from that of the German Baron, the asserted recent discovery of the latter document being thus shown to be untrue, or that he was himself the author of both the fabricated Journals.
But Rawlinson seems to have some doubt:
There does, however, seem to be an alternative explanation that both Klaproth and the inventor of the Baron's travels may have copied from a third spurious original, which is as yet undiscovered, and I am the rather inclined to attach some weight to this hypothesis that beyond the Indus, Klaproth's Map exhibits no similarity whatever to the Baron's Journal, either in nomenclature or in the general description of the country; and it certainly does seem extraordinary if Klaproth really invented the Baron's story and tracings that he should not have reproduced the fictions in constructing his own subsequent map.
If Rawlinson felt inclined to attach some weight to the hypothesis of the existence of a third spurious original, as yet undiscovered, it is surprising that he could be so positive in his charge against Klaproth. He quotes Lord Strangford's opinion that Macartney's map had served as a basis for Klaproth's forgeries, but he believes that also other sources had been consulted. He says:
The name of Bolor, indeed, which may be called the pivot of all this spurious geography of Central Asia, bears direct evidence to the historical sources from which it is derived, for this title, although in general use amongst writers from the 10th to the 17th century, has become obsolete in the country ever since, and was certainly quite unknown at the date of these pretended travels, whether applied to a river, or to a city, or to a range of mountains. ¹ With regard to the remarkably correct description of Kaferistan,

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