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0579 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / 579 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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In the discussion after this paper BOWER stated that his experience in Tibet
was »that nearly every lake showed obvious signs of at one time having been very
much larger».

Deasy reminded of several problems which still remained unsolved. One of these
is the course of the Khotan river from the source down through the Kuen Lun range,
considerably to the west of where Major Bruce went.

. . . It has been of special interest to me to hear that Major Bruce has found another
route from the south of the Kuen Lun range into Polu. It bears out I think, the state-
ment which has been made by a good many travellers, that there is no caravan route
either from Rudok or Lhasa into Polu and Chinese Turkestan. I have been constantly
told that in days gone by there was a regular trade route from Lhasa into Polu, and
I made every endeavour to try and verify that statement, but without success.

In his book on his great journey Major Bruce describes our regions thus:

Three days later (from Baba Hatun) found the caravan climbing from the great
central table-land of Tibet towards the southern edge of the mass of mountain ridges which
separate it from Chinese Turkestan. The former area comprises one of the grandest Alpine
regions in the world. — The western portion is made up of the more or less fertile valleys
of the Indus and Shayok rivers. North of these are the Ling-Zi-Thang and the Aksai-
Chin, — vast highlands, like all North-West Tibet uninhabited and uninhabitable. To
these uplands the Karakoram mountains form the northern buttress, elevating this unique
series of plateaux thousands of feet above the central basin of Chinese Turkestan.¹

The expedition so well lead by Captain Bruce did not add very much to our
knowledge of the Kara-korum.