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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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The journey of Miss TAYLOR who crossed the Hwang-ho in the end of Sep-
tember 1892, was stopped at Najuca and reached Tatsienlu April 12th 1893, as
well as the expedition of Roborovskiy and Kosloff 1893, are outside of our regions.¹
WILLIAM WOODVILLE ROCKHILL is one of the most serious and erudite ex-
plorers that ever have visited Tibet. His journeys, however, only very slightly come
into contact with our regions, i. e. with the eastern continuation of the Kara-korum.
Of the »great mountain chain which marks the border of the high Tibetan
table-land», with the passes of Nomoran and Hato and the road to the Burhan bota
and Lhasa, Rockhill remarks:
On our maps this range figures under a variety of names, none of which are known
in the country. The name Kuen-lun is given it generally, but early Chinese geographers
applied this one to another range, in all probability the Koko-nor or Nan-shan. Prjevalsky
calls it Burh'an Buddha range and on other maps it is called Angirtakshia, both incorrect
expressions. Burhan Buddha is properly Burhan bota (as pointed out by Huc, II, 215),
and means 'The Buddha's kettle'. Angirtakshia is the name of a pass, as is Nomoran, Hato,
Burhan bota. Prjevalsky, who gave names to so many peaks, lakes, and localities which
had well-known native ones, missed a fine chance here. The range has no name. Why
not give it his, as he was the first scientific European traveller who crossed it? or that
of the much maligned Huc, if it must have one?²
On his second journey³ 1891—1892, Rockhill saw a good deal of the Tang-la.
Marching in the valley of a little feeder of the Murus, PRSHEVALSKIY'S Mur-
usu, he makes the observation that limestone is the principal rock in the hills to
the south, and that, judging from the gravel and debris washed down from the
northern hills, sandstone, mostly reddish, predominates there.
June 25th, camping at a height of 16,850 feet, he says: »We have also
reached the west end of the Dang la range.» The ground was covered with gravel
and grassgrown hummocks. »From here the western end of the Dang la seems to
be a line of low black hills, over which our route must lay.» Both limestone and
sandstone were now to be found, though the rugged outlines of Dang-la indicated
an eruptive formation.
Crossing the foothills of the Dang-la Rockhill continued to the W. S. W. by
West. »To our west, some twenty miles away, rose a short range of mountains
with its central portion covered with snow.» There was a little lake into which the
watercourses of the neighbourhood emptied. Here was at last »the Central plateau
of North Tibet».
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