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0472 Southern Tibet : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / Page 472 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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would be useless to try to explain or excuse this miserable map. But it should be
remembered that it was published in 1861, several years after THOMSON'S journey to
the Kara-korum Pass, — if the map-maker did not believe in MIR IZZET ULLAH'S
Journey across all three mountain systems. And a few years before had been publi-
shed the narrative of the SCHLAGINTWEITS who had crossed the Kara-korum and
Kwen-lun and reached Eastern Turkestan. All this seems to have been completely
unknown to M. Veniukoff, who had greater confidence in the mysterious traveller
and his curious geography.

Comparing this little map with the one reproduced in Petermanns Mitteilungen,
1861¹, Tab. 10, we find resemblance in great outlines, but considerable discrepancies
in detail.