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0102 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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Siam . . . . le royaume de Boutan est composé de plusieurs provinces, gouvernées par des
princes particuliers et absolus dans leurs états. Leurs sujets leur donnent le titre de rois;
mais le souverain de tout le pays, qui demeurs à Lassa, capitale de tout le Boutan, ne leur
donne que celui de déba ou de gouverneur . . . . Autant que je le puis connoître, ce royaume
a de longueur environ trois mois de chemin d'un homme de pied, et quarante jours de largeur.
Le pays est tout rempli de montagnes; ce qui fait que le froid y est très-vif, quoiqu'on y
soit assez près de la ligne, puisque Lassa, capitale de tout le royaume, n'est qu'au 30me
degré de latitude boréale, et par conséquent peu éloignée du tropique. Les montagnes
sont, la plus grande partie de l'année, couvertes de neiges, et presque partout entièrement
stériles en sorte qu'elles sont inhabitées, non seulement par les hommes, mais encore par
les bêtes sauvages.

Thus the unknown author of these lines only in general states the existence
of mountains, and has, of course, no idea of the ranges or systems situated north
of the Himalaya. To the cartographers of the epoch, the Kara-korum System is
likewise hidden in impenetrable clouds. ISBRANTS IDES, for instance, in 1704, has
made the orography as simple as possible, joining Ispahan with Kabul by a mighty
range, placing its eastern end and Kabul at the source of the Ganges. DELISLE, 1705,
has the Himalaya under the name of M. de Purbet ou de Naugracut, stretching
N. W. between Royaume du Grand Tibet and Pengab to Petit Tibet, in the
neighbourhood of which several of GOËS' names are entered, as Sacritma M., and, to
the N. E., M. Ciecialith and Tanghetar. About the same representation is given on
the same draftsman's map, Carte de Tartarie of 1706, where Tibet is situated between
two ranges as it is in reality. To the north of the northern one are Cachgar and
Cotan, and east of the latter the old meridional Imaus. On this map the route of
Goës is entered, though some of his names are missing. There are, however, Parvan
on the Hendoukech, Gialalabath, Talkan, Cheman, Badascian, Ciarciunar, Sarpanil,
Sarcil, Tanghetar, Jaconich and Yarkan. About the same conception of the orography
returns on Delisle's map of 1723. Petit Tibet and the geography of Goës are the
most dominating features in the region where the Western Kara-korum is situated.

From the same year, 1723, dates the little map published by PETIS DE LA
CROIX in his edition of SHEREFEDDIN ALI, and of which I have reproduced here
Pl. VII.¹ On this map, Caschgar and Hyarkent are shown as one town with two
different names. East of it is Cotan, situated on a river directed to Acsou. East of
Cotan is the considerable mountain range of Carangoutac. To the south of these
regions is G. Tebet, the western half of which is filled with mountains, and where
we recognize Sarcil P., Badascian and P. Tebet.